Netflix’s new surprisingly thoughtful Terminator anime debuts with a 100% critics’ score

It's no accident that Netflix chose Aug. 29 as the date on which to release its new Terminator Zero anime, which debuted with a perfect critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes.

In 1991's Terminator 2: Judgement Day, of course, Aug. 29 is revealed as the date in 1997 when Skynet becomes self-aware -- with the ensuing all-out war that it launches between machines and humanity sparking a long and bloody resistance between time-traveling cyborgs and human resistance fighters. That conflict stretches into the first decades of the 21st century...