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.

Just that. I give this series almost half first season. There was no way that i consider this crap somewhat plausible to watch. The acting is deprorable, the plot is wasted. This can only be liked by teenagers that doesn't have any experience in good acting and good plot....

This show so so so good, it makes your feEl all the feels. It is absolutely great.

I have never felt the need to leave an in depth review for anything I've seen before but this show is more than worthy for my first review and for your time as a viewer. I'm writing this review just after I've watched the Season 5 finale. I didn't want to write a review just for Season 5 as I think the show has continually done many things I'm about to talk about throughout its 5 seasons and continues to grow and evolve in fantastic and engaging ways. In this first paragraph however I want to highlight that at the time of this review Season 5 has been some of the best TV I've ever witnessed (and I watch a lot of TV). Something that is especially apparent in Season 5 more so than almost any other show I've ever seen - is that it has absolutely ZERO filler and this means that every episode is an absolute thrill ride and your excitement and anticipation waiting a week for each episode is always payed off. I don't think I've seen a show with zero filler yet still be able to fit all of the things you expect like building good character development and storylines etc. The show has surpassed a huge hurdle this season and I think many writers, directors and the like could learn from and that I hope this lightning in a bottle continues into the following seasons.Onto the show in general; Without giving too much away plot wise for any of the seasons, The show begins years after a nuclear holocaust wipes out the earth and the remains of the human race are stuck in space on a space station named the Ark. The show follows 100 delinquent kids who for various reasons get sent down to the earth to basically check if its inhabitable. The show builds and evolves and just keeps getting better and better as it goes on so I'm avoiding talking about many specifics. Half the tension at the beginning is finding out what earth is actually like so to ruin any of that here would be a monumental disservice to the show. When the show started I thought that the premise had promise but never did I expect it to be as good as it was nor become what it is now. These doubts I had come especially as it was on the CW, a channel that I believe despite having some solid shows, has always been a cliche young adult oriented channel. This of course is my own opinion. Although there's hints of cringe and some fan fiction like writing at the beginning of the show, if you stick with it, the show becomes increasingly more adult and grounded (pun unintended) as time goes on. I was shocked at how deep and brutal the show can be even at the beginning but especially in the second season and let alone where we are now in the show and story. I was also shocked at just how captivating the show is. When I sat down to watch it I didn't expect it to be terrible or anything but I definitely did not expect it to be so engaging and interesting. Throughout the show there's constant threads and throwbacks to previous seasons and although any good series should of course do that, this is especially a bulletpoint for this show as it is always changing. Each season is new and unique but doesn't ever stray too far from the core of the show and never leaves you thinking "Oh why did they change this?" Or "I wish the show was still more like Season X". As said earlier despite there being a little bit of cringe here and there the characters all have incredible arcs and each one of them is extremely unique. I won't mention too many points out of fear of spoilers but seeing the growth of a character like Octavia is incredible over the seasons or even the lead character Clarke. The way Clarke changes even from Season 4 to 5 is really well executed and adds layers to characters who at the beginning were just delinquent kids but a few seasons in come across as battle hardened young adults. I've rated the show a 10 not because it's perfect (not many, if any shows are) but because it provides everything you want when you sit down to watch a television show. Build up, suspense, shock value, interesting situations, action, (many other buzz words), drama and pay off - the latter being something I think many shows are not delivering on. If you've got this far then you've seen I've hyped this show up a lot - hopefully not too much but it is extremely good in many aspects. The TL:DR is basically stick with the show at the beginning as it just gets better and better and becomes extremely captivating. Hopefully I've convinced some of you to check out this great show. Thanks for reading this review :) .