The new trailer is a decidedly grim affair, which actually bodes well for “Terminator Zero” aping the horror-tinged doom-fests that were the first two films. It begins with Sonoya Mizuno’s Eiko presumably talking to Andre Holland’s Malcom Lee, warning him about the dangers that await and revealing that he’s “been on a collision course his entire life.” The voiceover is set to ominous footage of what looks to be the show’s equivalent of Judgment Day, with nuclear explosions decimating a city and Lee holding his children in terror.

We already knew “Terminator Zero” writer Mattson Tomlin wanted to emulate aspects of James Cameron’s original “Terminator,” making it so Eiko shares a lot in common with Michael Biehn’s Kyle Reese. Her voiceover in this trailer is reminiscent of Reese’s famous speech to Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) in Cameron’s 1984 film, in which he urged that the Terminator “can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.” In the “Zero” trailer Eiko warns that “there’s no going back” before adding, “It will never, ever, stop.”

There’s also shots of Timothy Olyphant’s Terminator performing surgery on his exposed arm, recalling a shot from “The Terminator.” What’s more, the hellish visions of nuclear apocalypse hitting Japan recall Sarah Connor’s nightmare from “Terminator 2,” in which she watches as L.A. is flattened by nuclear fire before exploding into flames herself. The “Zero” trailer shows a skull screaming into a nuclear blast, which is very reminiscent of Sarah’s nightmare.

All of this, interspersed between shots of Terminators being assembled, makes for an impressive trailer that looks to have truly revived that haunting aura of the first two movies.

“Terminator Zero” hits Netflix August 29, 2024.