The 100

The 100 (pronounced "The Hundred") is a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series that premiered on March 19, 2014, on The CW. The series, developed by Jason Rothenberg, is loosely based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan. Six seasons have aired as of Summer 2019, with the seventh confirmed to be the final season.

The show starts in 2149, 97 years after nuclear war has left Earth seemingly uninhabitable. On The Ark, a space station where some of humanity still survives, 100 juvenile delinquents are sent down to Earth to determine if it’s become survivable again and to conserve precious resources on the Ark.

What starts as a post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies quickly becomes something else as the kids realize that they’re not alone and things up on the Ark just keep getting worse.


 * Action Girl: There are a lot of them. Octavia and Echo are the best examples from the main cast.
 * Adaptation Displacement: The book series is mostly a footnote to the TV series at this point.
 * Artifact Title: Happens really quickly. It’s named after the 100 juvenile delinquents send to the ground, but two of them die on the way to the ground, about ten minutes into the episode.
 * Bittersweet Ending: A few of the seasons end with this:
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 5
 * Cliff Hanger: After resolving the main story, each season finale ends with one to set up the main conflict of the next season:
 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6 ends with two big ones:
 * Crapsack World: It’s decades after a nuclear apocalypse, so it’d be surprising if this ‘’wasn’t’’ the case.
 * From Bad to Worse: Many, many people don’t think through their actions. In the first season, it’s mostly a case of characters (justifiably) holding the Idiot Ball. In later seasons, the characters are smarter, but the circumstances are much worse.
 * Grey and Gray Morality: With a couple notable exceptions, everyone falls somewhere in the grey middle of morality. Frequently stated by the characters as “Maybe there are no good guys”.
 * Killed Off For Real: They don’t play around with death on this show. When someone dies, you’re going to see it and it’s going to stick.
 * Played with in Season 6 with the Primes.
 * Love Triangle: Averted more than you’d expect from the teen drama show that it starts off as. When Clarke discovers that Finn already was in a relationship with Raven, she immediately cuts off the relationship that had just started to develop.
 * Played with in Season 6 with the Primes.
 * Love Triangle: Averted more than you’d expect from the teen drama show that it starts off as. When Clarke discovers that Finn already was in a relationship with Raven, she immediately cuts off the relationship that had just started to develop.