B-Season 5The 100 is building a new world that's eerily similar to our ownKyle Fowle6/05/18 10:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’ve spent a fair amount of time in the reviews of the first few episodes of this season of The 100 hailing the show’s…
A-Season 5The 100 always delivers when it puts its characters between a rock and a hard placeKyle Fowle5/22/18 10:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe season four finale of The 100 boasted a perfect storytelling gimmick: the doomsday clock. It was an entire episode…
B+Season 5When it comes to The 100, hope is always accompanied by a moral reckoningKyle Fowle5/15/18 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe 100 has spent the first few episodes of this season keeping many of the main characters separated. Rather than…
B+Season 5The violence of colonialism is unavoidable on The 100Kyle Fowle5/08/18 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe world has ended twice on The 100, but for the people of the Ark, and those that have been on the ground for a long…
B+Season 5Octavia rises on a bloody, brutal The 100Kyle Fowle5/01/18 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe inherent problem with any sort of flash-forward in a TV show is the need to fill the audience in on what was…
A-Season 5The 100 burns it all down in a bold, compelling season premiereKyle Fowle4/24/18 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAt the end of last season, with a renewal already in hand, The 100 gave itself the best possibility to start over.…
ASeason 4The 100 ends its season on a suspenseful, mystifying noteKyle Fowle5/24/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor all intents and purposes, the season four finale of The 100 is the show’s version of a doomsday clock. As the…
ASeason 4The 100 brings its A game in ‘The Chosen’Andrea Reiher5/17/17 9:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s no secret I think The 100 Season 4 has been uneven. Honestly, that’s kind of how the show rolls, though on the…
B-Season 4The 100 bungles the bunker standoff a bitAndrea Reiher5/10/17 10:30pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkComing off such a self-contained episode as the conclave, The 100 had to naturally expand back out a bit to check in…
ASeason 4The 100’s Hunger Games conclave is one of its best episodes yetAndrea Reiher5/03/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s a reason The Hunger Games is such a compelling book series (and decent film franchise)—it raises all kinds of…
A-Season 4It’s choosing to die vs. choosing to fight on The 100’s ”DNR”Andrea Reiher4/26/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkHey, The 100 fans—I’m back filling in for Kyle and I’m sure the regular readers will be pleased to know I enjoyed this…
BSeason 4The latest The 100 sees the show being pulled in two directionsKyle Fowle3/29/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe 100 has always been a show going in two different directions. One the one hand it’s a grand, sweeping look at a…
B+Season 4A thrilling episode can’t help The 100 ditch its storytelling crutchesKyle Fowle3/22/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf there’s been an overall complaint about The 100 in these weekly reviews, it’s that the stakes of the show are…
BSeason 4A timely, political episode of The 100 gets the season back on trackKyle Fowle3/15/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen the season premiere of The 100 aired just over a month ago, it looked like there was perhaps a hopeful message in…
C+Season 4Raven goes Limitless as The 100’s absurdities aboundAndrea Reiher3/01/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkHey, The 100 fans. I’m filling in for Kyle this week—longtime reader, first time writer. Thanks for having me.
B-Season 4The path of least resistance doesn’t suit The 100Kyle Fowle2/22/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkPacing has always been one of the more unpredictable aspects of The 100. Think back to the show’s first season, and how…
C+Season 4The latest episode of The 100 can’t escape past mistakesKyle Fowle2/15/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSomething is amiss in Arkadia. I’m not talking about all the stuff that’s normally amiss, but the feeling that the…
B+Season 4The 100 delivers a solid episode that muses on the complexity of leadershipKyle Fowle2/08/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf there was one major issue with season three of The 100, it was that it had a difficult time parsing out the…
B+Season 4The 100 is back to help us understand struggle in times of crisisKyle Fowle2/01/17 9:00pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkStarting over after a catastrophic, traumatic event is extremely difficult. There’s a sense of loss that mixes with…
A-Season 3The 100 closes out its season in a blaze of gloryKyle Fowle5/19/16 10:50pmEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBefore we even get to tonight’s action-packed finale of The 100, it needs to be said that this has been a rocky season.…
