One prominent issue with the last few episodes of The 100 has been the show’s insistence on creating life or death stakes for each and every character. It’s a flaw that’s familiar to regular viewers, as nearly every season has included a stretch of episodes where the stakes just felt too big, the scope too large to…

Every season of The 100, with the exception of the remarkable, near-perfect second season, goes through a slump. Every season reaches a point in the middle where the story starts to sag, the motivations of the characters become murky, and the episodes become a little less compelling. It’s a pattern that this season…

The fifth season of The 100 has been building to one thing: war. It’s been the focus of nearly every single character arc so far this season. And yet, war still hasn’t come. It’s perpetually on the horizon. Last week Octavia promised to strike at dawn. This week’s episode ends with a promise to ride the next…

Like anyone else with eyes and a heart, I spent most of my week navigating the horrific news coming out of Texas, scrolling through Twitter and jumping through TV channels, swarmed by an endless barrage of images that capture the inhumanity of a this current administration. They’re difficult images to shake; they’re…

I’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 decision to move ahead six years in time. From the season premiere onwards, it’s proven to be a smart choice, and the crux of my thinking has been that it’s allowed the characters time to change in…

The season four finale of The 100 boasted a perfect storytelling gimmick: the doomsday clock. It was an entire episode devoted to a single story, which involved Clarke and the team working against the impending Praimfaya to save their lives. The structure of the episode, which made it clear how much time everyone had…

The 100 has spent the first few episodes of this season keeping many of the main characters separated. Rather than immediately bringing the crew on the Ark back to earth and opening up the bunker so that Octavia and everyone else might escape, the show found a way to tell a few different stories about life in the six…

The 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 time, they’ve suffered numerous ends and new beginnings. Clarke, Bellamy, and all the others that were originally sent down to explore a possibly inhabitable Earth knew nothing of the first time the…

The inherent problem with any sort of flash-forward in a TV show is the need to fill the audience in on what was happening during all the time we missed. Perhaps providing those details isn’t always necessary, but there’s always going to be a certain amount of curiosity, and certain amount of necessity built into…

At the end of last season, with a renewal already in hand, The 100 gave itself the best possibility to start over. After four seasons of fending off violence at every turn, The 100 allowed itself to jump ahead in time and truly shake things up. Clarke was given her moment of heroism, one that felt true to the…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, April 24. All times are Eastern.

For all intents and purposes, the season four finale of The 100 is the show’s version of a doomsday clock. As the episode title suggests, Praimfaya is on the way, and that means a face-melting death for anyone that’s not either in the bunker or up in space. For all the talk of life and death stakes throughout the…

It’s no secret I think The 100 Season 4 has been uneven. Honestly, that’s kind of how the show rolls, though on the whole Season 2 pretty darn strong. But when The 100 is good, it is very, very (very, very) good and “The Chosen” was excellent. It reminded me strongly of one of the best Battlestar Galactica episodes.…

Coming off such a self-contained episode as the conclave, The 100 had to naturally expand back out a bit to check in with not only the bunker, but also the death wish party people and Raven, which was both a good and a bad thing.

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, May 10. All times are Eastern.

There’s a reason The Hunger Games is such a compelling book series (and decent film franchise)—it raises all kinds of moral questions and packages them with white-knuckle action and compelling human interest. So it’s no surprise that The 100’s version of the games is no different. “Die All, Die Merrily” is easily one…

Hey, 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 week’s episode far more than the last one I reviewed. So let’s dive right in to “DNR.”

Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Wednesday, April 26. All times are Eastern.

The 100 has always been a show going in two different directions. One the one hand it’s a grand, sweeping look at a dystopian universe, complete with warring clans, radioactive rain, mutated human beings, and of course we can’t forget giant water snakes and gorillas. On the other hand, it’s a show that uses that epic…