Status: Ended
Aired: 2014-20, 10 Seasons Totalling 100 Episodes
Series Premiere: March 19, 2014
Network: CW
Starring: Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco, Thomas McDonell, Bob Morley, Marie Avgeropoulos, Devon Bostick, Lindsey Morgan, Henry Ian Cusick
Series Website: Netflix.com
Description: Season one of THE 100 saw the human race return, after a 97-year exile in space, to a wildly transformed Earth…only to discover that the human race had never truly left. Clarke found herself forced to lead a band of disposable juvenile delinquents as they faced death at every turn: from a world transformed by radiation, from the fierce Grounders who somehow managed to survive in it, and, perhaps worst of all, from themselves. CWTV.com
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Why Did It End? This show was never a strong ratings draw for The CW, but it did well in digital viewing and encore runs on Netflix and it has a dedicated fanbase that is active on the social nets. The network announced that the show’s seventh season in advance as its last giving the creative team the opportunity to wrap up its storylines. A prequel series was considered for the 2020-21 season, but that did not go forward.
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100 was such a good show… but season 5 sucks!!!! it really does. Everyone out to betray everyone (and why would they, except that they know it’s a series and their friends really won’t die). Everyone grown weak and afraid (saving Madi???? Why? She’s taken the flame. …and Madi, who’s taken the flame, acting like a little girl, when she’s got the wisdom and the courage of all those who have come before her). All become so stupid!!!! Won’t bother with season after this. Barely watched season 5 anyway. Just had the tv and the show on while I focused on cleaning the house, lol.
This is one of the best shows on the CW so please don’t cancel it
This is the WORST show on the CW and we want it cancelled!! We don’t promote homophobic and racist shows like this. The only talented thing about it was Lexa. Now it’s taking up a TV slot. Cancel!!
Alycia Debnam Carey quit The 100 because she got a role on Fear the Walking Dead. Killing the character has been the way out for most actors who want off The 100.
Nope cancel it. Lexa deserved better.
“The 100 will have 61 to 64 after the upcoming fifth season”
No, you’re wrong. It will have 71 episodes. It >>probably<< won't have a season 6.
Season 1 = 13 episodes
Season 2 = 16 episodes
Season 3 = 16 episodes
Season 4 = 13 episodes
Season 5 = 13 episodes
I’ve watched 2 seasons and I just can’t watch it anymore. It has far too much teenage drama in it for my taste and the writing and delivery is just awful for me to watch. I feel there are far better Sci Fi shows out there that don’t get the attention/viewers they deserve . I think it is a good show for Teenagers which is most likely the reason why it has a large following. I’m sorry if i offended anyone . I just prefer my sci fi to have the intellectual dialogue with on point delivery and have the “science” in the show make sense or at least have a small explanation as to why it is the way the show says it is. The writing seems lazy.
I’ve watched it mainly for the entertainment value of how stupid it can get, especially on the technical stuff. If they’d put as much effort into the science stuff and the plotting as they have the costumes, sets, props, and languages it could have been a very excellent show.
The show has had at least three characters leave for various reasons. They simply deleted Wick because the actor posted a stupid comment on Twitter. Lincoln was killed off because the actor was ticked off that they’d write scenes with him then every time cut them back a lot or cut them completely. Lexa got the bullet because the actor apparently wanted off this picture and got a gig on walking dead. Soooo, they’ve had to change directions a few times.
But what the viewer can depend upon with The 100 is that a character will pick up the idiot ball and run with it, often many times, leading to stupid things happening (often involving many people dying) that wouldn’t if they had any common sense.
I’m getting real nervous looking at those ratings. They are on a steady drop when this show deserves more. It’s the only show the captures me and has me hooked in. The long comment at the top needs to stop for a moment and realize that this is television not a college presentation on chemical components. So what if the chemical is red when it’s actually clear? I noticed that too and it didn’t bother me. The story is what I am into. Over population, nuclear warfare, Alie (who I hate so much every time I watch season 3, wishing Clark would just pull that kill switch instead of having Alie yap in an attempt to stall). But the story is amazing. It has me not knowing what to expect and it’s interesting to see how things would be if mankind gets another chance to a fresh start. I tried the walking dead when it first aired. It got to the point where I found it repetitive. But this? This has a good blend of sci-fi, drama, action, adventure, swords vs guns, old faiths vs technology, grounders vs sky people. This show is amazing. But for this show to survive, the numbers have to go up. I normally watch on demand at my convenience but I will try to watch it when it airs on Wednesdays at 9 . Those of you with social media need to spread the word
We are spreading the word…..to let the ratings keep falling so it will be on the verge of cancellation. The Loo went one better than TWD, not only has it become SO deja vu contrary to what you say, but it is discriminatory and it also keeps killing off all the best characters; namely just the grounders. It’s unrealistic and boring and people have had enough, Clarke is so unlikable too. Season 5 will be the last and that is generous considering they are now averaging in the 800,’000’s which is so terrible. It doesn’t deserve to keep going, Jason made a mockery of it and a mockery of the young fans who have stuck with it for years. Not to mention his bullying of the actors. It’s an utter disgrace, I loathe him for making me hate the sight of my once favorite show ever.
The 100 is a show worth watching. I get my first few episodes from Apple because I never know when it comes on, once I see it on Apple I pick it up off the CW. Love this show!!! Love it!
John
Laguna Niguel, CA
I’m glad that the show is still airing I really like this show always keeps your attention always keeps it interesting it is a very good show please don’t cancel it!!! me and my family can’t stop watching it!
I agree, this show is amazing!!!! Deserves to keep going for a long time. GOT is ending, TWD is declining rapidly in ratings and in quality tv, FTWD remains to be the crappiest spin off alive, basically we need this show to survive. Heck it’s such a big deal that it even has its own lesbian hate club that keep trying to make it look bad. Go The 100!!
I miss Lexa, the show needs her.
I miss Lexa.
Me too. But they kinda left her death slightly open for a future return like what they did with Jon Snow since her body went AWOL and there was no funeral. And if FTWD ever sinks really low or gets cancelled, who knows Alycia might come back. Lexa’s story was really unfinished so I would love to see it developed more and plus she’s my fave ever.,
i hope they dont cancel it. this is one of the only shows that made me cry, the only shows that make me excited. there r haters everywhere, they shouldnt let that stop them.
Totally agree, people are just acting crazy at this stage. I don’t get involved with the behind the scenes politics, I don’t message the writers and creators and bait and jeer. I don’t care about any of that. It’s a tv show, it has a good story and I like to watch it. I hope it doesn’t get cancelled either. People who are trying to get this show shut down and the other deserving actors put out of a job are just sad individuals who need to seriously re-evaluate themselves.
Season3 of the 100 sucks ass. I mean wth happened? There are NO works! It went from a Great sci fi drama to grounder and ppl running around with spears and dumb imaginary Paradise in ppl minds? Like, for real? I stopped watching after the second ep. of season 3. The writers need to erase the drawing broad and start again. Or just get fired.!
I completely agree Tina. I used to enjoy this show. Maybe its the Season 3 plot that is annoying me. Every episode leaves me wondering why did I waste my time. I hope they then things around before they lose the rest of their viewers.
Well I disagree. Lexa’s death was disappointing but the emotions it drew from me and everyone else just proves how powerful and engaging it was. Writers are insensitive morons but I’m in it for the show, I don’t care about the behind the scenes people. Also, there’s a lot worse out there. Like, that show Fear the Walking Dead, talk about bad writing, that turned out to be crappy and disappointing, it’s really only on air because of The Walking Dead which I consider to be cheating. So yeah, the 100 did it all on its own and I respect any show for at least that much.
THANK YOU! Finally, someone here who isn’t brainwashed by the terrible drama of the The 100! I’m halfway through season 3 and the only reason I’m still watching is to see if Clarke, Lexa, or Bellamy will get killed off. I honestly hate the people in Arkadia and hope they all die off in some way.
Watched the latest episode of season 3. They’ve firmly gripped the idiot ball yet again on basic science/physics with Polaris station. It’s a classic spinning ring type for centrifugal ‘gravity’ yet all the action shown onboard takes place in the non-rotating central column, with people standing firmly on a deck perpendicular to the axis.
Have the writers signed a pact to screw up the simplest things just to ##^@^ with the viewers? Or are they just tar brushing it all with “Rule of Cool”?
At least we (probably) won’t be revisiting Polaris station.
BTW. I can’t look at the gear stuck to Lexa’s head without thinking of this song. “Just glue some gears on it and call it steampunk” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA
I hope they renew this show is amazing my favret show ever
Awesome show. I look forward to the next season.
That guy is a weirdo ???? that was along read for nothing and who cares the shows GREAT KERP IT ON STOP TAKING AWAY THE GOOD SHIWS it’s CW since when does basic tv explode with ratings.
That all is spelled wrong but you get it
I’m rather surprised I’m still enjoying this show – its first couple episodes just annoyed me, and I’ll freely admit it’s been running on a pass-the-idiot-ball plot ever since (“I wonder who gets designated to do something mind-bogglingly and suicidally stupid and start a new war this week?” Spoiler: it could be anyone, whether it’s in-character or not, so roll some dice.) Yet, I’m still watching it, and more or less enjoying it, so they have to be doing something right. I hope to see it stick around at least another season, and maybe even get a chance to benefit from more consistent writing in future seasons.
Yep, been a long time since I’ve been hooked on a show, really hope more people discover, want a season 4
I watched it on Netflix and never new this show was out WOW what great writing and suspense. Love it is there more coming. I have turned alot of people on to this series.
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I bought this show when season 1 was on sale on iTunes, this show is very addicting, already watched season 2, enjoying season 3 now. I think once people discover on Netflix ratings will jump.
I hope cw renews for season 4, totally awesome!
OMG I’m so happy the 100 is back I love it!!!!! I was disappointed when I thought it wasn’t coming back! Thankyou so much for bringing this show back!!!
Characters, costumes, makeup, sets, the overarching story are all pretty darn good on The 100. I watched all of the first two seasons just before the beginning of the 3rd, and have seen the first two episodes of the 3rd season.
What’s the downside? The majority of the technical and medical stuff is just utterly completely bullhockey wrong. Did anyone listen to the science advisor? Does the show even have a science advisor? What makes it worse is all the awful stuff would have been so bleeping easy to get right and make the show even better, without any tedious exposition.
There’s a storytelling thing called Show, Don’t Tell. What The 100 shows us us that whomever is responsible for things like the hydrazine that acts like nitroglycerin and blood and bone marrow transfusions without (99.9% of the time) any kind of type matching and people walking on decks of the space station in areas that aren’t rotating – just has zero clue about the most basic elements of chemistry, biology or physics and apparently has an aversion to Google by which such lack could be corrected.
In the episode where Raven builds the bomb, it’s a classic “Checkov’s Gun” story. (I wonder if the writers even know the term?) We’re shown in act 1 the hydrazine from the crashed ship and that it’s explosive. (Uhhh, no, it’s not. Nor is it red, it’s colorless.) In act 2 Raven uses hydrazine and gunpowder to build a “bomb” in a coffee can. In act 3 the “bomb” is exploded to delay the grounder attack.
That plotline through the episode is a good one, interlaced with other ongoing arcs. Where it goes clunk is in the horribly inaccurate chemistry and physics.
Hydrazine *is* a rocket fuel, but unlike some rocket fuels it’s not at all flammable or explosive without some help, but it is toxic, yet not immediately nasty/deadly with minimal exposure. NASA tried *very hard* to make hydrazine explode. In one test they set off a pound of C4 atop a can of it. In another they fired a projectile at a can of it at 6.1 kilometers per second. Tossing a hydrazine damp rock or shooting it with a rifle or flaming arrow? Not a chance.
So how to use this nearly safe as houses chemical compound as a rocket fuel? It needs a catalyst. Hydrazine has a very useful property where it can be a monopropellant or the fuel half of a hypergolic mix. For monopropellant use, it can be pumped through something like a metal screen plated with iridium, whereupon it decomposes rapidly, producing heat over 1,000F, a lot of vapor and pressure. If you’ve seen or read “The Martian”, a very slow and careful dripping of hydrazine onto iridium was used to liberate oxygen for breathing. Yay for something that *could* actually work!
The other method is to mix hydrazine with another chemical that will make it rapidly decompose. Typically this is some form of nitric acid. Not nitric *oxide*, though that is one of the byproducts of the reaction. Hypergolic fuels and oxidizers (AKA hypergols) react and burn upon contact without any external ignition source. Such was used in the WW2 German Me 163 Komet rocket plane and in the Apollo lunar landers. Hypergolic use of hydrazine results in much higher performance from a rocket.
Now how could The 100 *show* the audience all this chemistry without boring them to tears laboriously explaining it?
Raven sees the liquid dripping from the crash debris, we already know from what we’ve been *shown* is she’s very knowledgeable about all this space stuff.
“Everyone! Get back! There’s a hydrazine leak! If it mixes with the catalyst it will explode!”
A simple change of dialog = no science derp. Ah, but how to *show* us that yes, the stuff will explode, and to setup the Checkov’s Gun to go off in act three? Raven finds an intact tank of catalyst and a conveniently bowl shaped piece of wreckage, into which she drains a small puddle of the liquid. After setting that a safe distance away she… dips a rock in the puddle of hydrazine and lobs it into the bowl of catalyst. BOOM! The plot is served and the sanity of people who know something about chemistry is saved! (And fewer of those viewers change the channel in disgust over the bad science!)
But what about the bomb? Ugh. Much more fail there. First off, a rifle bullet is not going to detonate smokeless powder, not without an extremely lucky spark, which a non-steel bullet won’t make, ever. Nor will the gunpowder detonate the hydrazine. Even assuming the thing would work as shown, all it would do is spew some unburnt gunpowder and broken glass into the air. Simply putting a sheet of foil over the top won’t hold the pressure enough to get a proper kaboom. Raven needs something sturdier like an ammo box, which at that point in the series they should have several. To make with the boom-stoff would be very simple. Two jars! One with hydrazine, one with catalyst. (No need to say *what* it is, just call it catalyst.) Place them side by side, or if Raven has confidence in her ability to get the outside squeaky clean, put the jar of catalyst inside a larger jar of hydrazine.
Now Jasper just has to shoot through both jars simultaneously. The gunpowder acts as a booster to the explosion, not the initiator.
There you have it. Some minor changes to the actions of Raven and a small alteration to the scene as the crashed ship and the plot goes from “That’s so dumb! It doesn’t work like that!” to “I love it, they made this so plausible I bet Mythbusters will test it!”. If they were worried about someone building a bomb using what they saw on The 100, the bomb built in The Martian is practically a textbook, with materials far easier to obtain than hydrazine and red fuming nitric acid.
The medical stuff is far easier to save from the stupids. Just *mention* blood type matching and have people shown checking it, then naturally the story arranges for the characters having their blood pumped around to have compatible types. We *finally* get that in the second episode of season 3, but apparently only brought up to pump up the drama. Even without fancy technology a quick field expedient compatibility test can be done by mixing equal amounts of two persons’ blood. If they immediately coagulate or clump then a transfusion won’t work. If they stay liquid then the transfusion *may* work, if the Rh factors are compatible.
Just as laughable is when Clarke is shown the body of a man who was shot and has neat round entry and exit wounds, then is shown a large broadhead arrow. It’s obvious Clarke isn’t fooled and the shapes of the wounds are why, but she doesn’t tell that to the others when trying to convince them the Mt. Weather people are lying. Two ways to fix this one. Either have Clarke *tell* about the wrong wound shapes or *show* the Mt. Weather doctor using a knife, or the arrow, to alter the wounds. By this point Clarke has seen both bullet and arrow wounds, and from later reveals we know than Mt. Weather has been observing the kids since they landed, so *they* know Clarke knows the difference – so the most believable fix would be to have the doc alter the wounds. The tiniest of fixes, a dinky little scene showing the doc stabbing the corpse with the arrow and the dumbness is gone.
BLA BLA BLA ITS A TV SHOW, I BET YOU BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE NET TOO. LOVE THIS SHOW
I’m sorry I fell asleep halfway your comment. It’s a tv show Bill Nye…nobody cares. You think half of what was in Star Trek was “technically actuate”…no, but nobody cared because the show was amazing. Just like this one 🙂
That was a very good and well thought out explanation of why The 100 is mediocre writing at best. And I agree with you 100%. However, there is one thing you must remember, and it is an axiom that Hollywood adheres to with absolutely no leeway whatsoever…. they believe fervently with every fiber of their being that the viewing audience is STUPID. They write stories to appeal to viewers with a 6th grade level education. If you don’t believe me, just read some of the comments on here. Heck even those who replied to your comment. They all agree… it’s just a TV show. They don’t care about intelligence. They don’t care about reason. They don’t care about logic. They don’t even care about reality. All they care about is mindless drivel being spoon fed to them that requires no thinking on their part. All Hollywood has to do is toss in lots of young, cute people (male -or- female), regardless of how pathetically mundane the writing is, and they will drool over their screens with an almost religious rapture expression on their faces. The sad part is, this is the generation we’re handing this country over to run. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Please don’t cancel!! My husband & I both LOVE this show!! It’s AWESOME!
I love this show, started off a little slow but as the series progressed I became hooked. I hope the show doesn’t get cancelled, that would be tragic.
First season was not great but improved markedly toward the end and the second season was surprisingly good for a CW show. The show is flat-out brave with its characterisation and plotting and I’m very disappointed more people aren’t tuning in. Maybe a Twitter campaign?
I love this show! Don’t cancel it!!
my best show! i love it♥
I LOVE THIS SHOW AND IF YOU CANCEL IT I WILL BE THROUGHLY PISSED OFF!!!!!
There is no reason to cancel this amazing show!!!
I will sue if you cancel this show
Omg I absolutely LOVE this show. I really hope they DONT cancel because this show is AMAZING! & it’ll probably get more viewers later on because maybe people don’t know about it yet. I love Bellarke
Me too I really hope they get together