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I am not used to reviewing series on IMdB, but I had to make an exception for this one. This show has been going on for 5 seasons now and has its ups and downs. Clearly. What I am going to do is spoil you starting from paragraph 3 (this being paragraph 1) if you do not have watched the whole show including season 5.For those who are hesitating to watch The 100, well... What the hell are you waiting for? This might appear as a teenage show, which it is, but this is much more than that too. There are great plots, great actors and lots of death and turnarounds. Everything a show needs to be good. However, Newcomers I must warn you of two things. First is strap yourself in because as I said there is going to be lots of death and difficult decisions for the characters, but I consider that a good thing as you probably do too. Second is do not stop the show at half season 3, everyone agrees that season 3 is the worst of all but the next ones are way better in many ways. This is far from The Walking Dead case, in the end they knew how to make it a great show again.First and second seasons are great to watch, characters are interesting, and the actors are great as well. What happens during The 100 is what I expect in any TV show I watch. Do not bond with any characters in any way, you might be disappointed by what happens to them. When I say that, I do not only mean that in a physical way, but in a psychological way too. War, treasons, manipulation and complicated relationships (to say the least) is what makes the show so great. There is not a single thing that is easy in this show, starting with the decisions the characters have to make. As I said, the show obviously had some downsides. Season 3 is the one. Well... last 7 episodes of season 3. Everyone of us, fans of the show, did disagree with the death of Lexa. I do not mind that they killed her, but the way they did was just not acceptable. And to add to the drama, this was an LGBT character. Obviously, what was meant to happen happened, and the LGBT community took this personally (or some of them at least). I can understand why, because of the way she died which was the stupidest I have ever seen in a show of this kind. Would have she been a non-LGBT character, I would have mind as much. After season 3 I hesitated to even keep going with the show, I was worried they would make the same mistakes, bringing the same plots forward all over again. And they almost did in season 4, but the way the story was written, the actors' play and the ending make it watchable, and an actual good season in my opinion. Not the best I have seen, but good enough to keep me within the story. I think that it is mostly the ending that made me want to wait for season 5. And God... I cannot tell you how worth it the wait was...Season 5 is THE greatest season so far of this show. For those who do not have watched it yet, please watch it already! Honestly, I was not expecting the show to go this way, and I am so happy that they did. Everything is great about this season, there is not a single episode where I was bored or expecting what would happen. Almost every episode is a surprise of its own, the new characters are great and the new actors too (especially William Miller as Paxton McCreary <3). What happened to the ones who stayed on Earth is very well hidden until the right moment, the ones up in space want to go back to Earth and want this time to do the right thing (they finally learned from their mistakes) and Clarke became a mother of some girl called Madi, who will turn out to be a truly interesting character. Season 5 was great, and the end of the last episode gives us a very nice opening to season 6. They finally got to stop making the same mistakes all over again, and now the show can move on from what they used to do during these 5 seasons, which was that one character always ends up repeating the same mistakes the others did. This was getting really boring and frustrating. But now, and maybe because they finally destroyed Earth for good, they may be able to do something different this time on a new planet.I will not hide that I have high expectations for season 6, and that I will probably be the first one to s*** on the show if this goes the same way all over again. But I am confident that this will go the right way, I have lots of theories of what could happen on this new Season and this gets me real excited.May we meet again.
Alfred Smith
The premise of The 100 lends itself to some great storytelling. Unfortunately, this escaped the makers of this show. The ensemble cast is huge and as expectingh in such a big cast, only a few of them have the required acting skills. The characters are shallow and completely unlikeable. The story is slow and boring. Despite being sci-fi, much of the science is downright misleading and laughable. Perhaps it's aimed at teens but I thinks teens are probably too clever for this.I'm afraid that by episode 4 I'd had enough and could not continue watching this drivel.There's lots of better TV series around. Go and watch one of them.
