The 100

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Season 2
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 296 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 13 out of 296
  3. Negative: 71 out of 296
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  1. Vogons-armpit
    Feb 14, 2015
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Entertaining, exciting, well made, ridiculous science. Radiation is so potent that the mountain men turn into a packet of crisps within seconds, yet lots of people have survived on the surface and the Sky people seem to suffer no ill effects. Ah! but the Sky people have been genetically altered (surface people haven't though - plot hole), Ah! but the surface people have gone through survival of the fittest (radiation has a cumulative effect that gets worse over longer periods of exposure - if it's so virulent now it kills in seconds - so has to be 30 rads or significantly higher - then it was a lot higher in the past and would have killed virtually all human life, if not straight away then certainly over years). Mountain men couldn't take bone marrow from surface dwellers or even slowly raise radiation levels over a few generations inside the mountain, or even by gradual exposure of a select few to build resistance?

    Why didn't the mountain men just come clean straight off with the 48? Look folks, the grounders kept attacking us, they're horrible, just like they've been attacking you lot just for being different, they were going at it with us. We lost people, we captured some of them, used their blood to cure those they hurt, then we kept em and keep using their blood to repair ourselves from every time their barbarian hordes have a go at us. Your folks have landed, we can help them, can you help us? Cheers everyone, here's to surviving against the common enemy.

    Even when attacked the MM are useless and thick. In episode 12 on a youtube clip we see one of them going in to a knife fight with the four day trained ninja Octavia who has a sword! Erm, pick up the gun mate, slot em at a distance. Call up MM for a missile strike. Also what's stopping deployment of the acid fog followed by a sortie by the suited up MM to wipe out the grounder sky people camp? Then we discover that the MM are so brutish, so horrible that some of their number will gladly help a mob of selfish brats deplete the MM population and let Brattemy loose on the ventilation system.

    Its a great series, but I just wish the writers had not been so lazy as to turn radiation into magic that defies the laws of physics and make the bad guys (MM) so bad, so evil, that they are thick to boot!

    Fiction even of this kind just needs to have some semblance of the laws of physics within the world setting but the writers just kick out the science book for a plot turn, which ruins it.    … Expand
  2. TVViewer3
    Mar 8, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Review includes spoilers.

    This show started out with an interesting premise. Only a few thousand humans survived a nuclear apocalypse. They live on a space station, which is decaying. In desperation, the station sends 100 criminals to the surface, in hopes that they can survive. If so, then the others on the station may join them.

    Pretty cool. Except for a problem that very quickly introduced itself: the surface is crawling with humans. There is no urgency for the people from the space station to survive so they can repopulate the Earth, because it's already populated. You can't throw a cat without hitting a different faction, even in the remote environs of Mount Washington.

    So, we go into the show's second act: tribal warfare. Endless, repetitive tribal warfare. Slightly spiced up by the fact that in this world, somehow attractive teen girls hold most warlord roles. Speaking of teen girl warlords, The 100 unfortunately features the most wooden, boring lead character I can remember on a TV show, though she is attractive, so there's that, at least.

    This show could have been so much more. As things stand, it's watchable, as long as you don't look for anything beyond cliche.    … Expand
  3. AmyBenevento
    Mar 15, 2017
    6
    ‘The 100’ caught my attention with its ‘Lord of the Flies’ flavor (with teens instead of kids), but it tries too hard. It is stressful and too intense, showing a gasping thrill every five minutes. First, we fear 100 kids may die as they journey from a space station to earth, then they get speared by cavemen called Grounders (who happen to speak English), then some of them kill off each‘The 100’ caught my attention with its ‘Lord of the Flies’ flavor (with teens instead of kids), but it tries too hard. It is stressful and too intense, showing a gasping thrill every five minutes. First, we fear 100 kids may die as they journey from a space station to earth, then they get speared by cavemen called Grounders (who happen to speak English), then some of them kill off each other, then the most civilized people on the planet suck the kids’ bone marrow for medicinal reasons… ahhhhhhh! I need to take a tranquilizer after watching this show. My blood pressure is high enough, thank you very much. There’s never a down moment. There’s never a calm atmosphere. I can’t breathe. I can’t relax. It’s suspense on steroids. Enough!… Expand

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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Oct 21, 2014
    70
    The fast pace, multiple plot lines and life-or-death scenarios--coupled with solid anchoring from Turco, Cusick and Isaiah Washington--generally compensate for the show’s clunkier aspects and occasionally silly-sounding dialogue.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Dalene Rovenstine
    Oct 20, 2014
    91
    There's blood, drama, and edge-of-your-seat action--no zombies necessary.
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