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The 100 (CW TV series / Netflix series)

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I just watched the first 8 episodes of The 100 on Netflix, and to my surprise it's not bad.

It's about a bunch of teens and young adults that are expendable "criminals" ranging from light slap-on-the-right types to hardcore criminals, who are sent down to earth from an orbiting space station to check earth out. Earth needs to be checked out because there was a nuclear war and it became radioactive, so during the war earth sent people to the space station, and then they stayed there for generations before considering going back down.

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At first I thought it was going to be 90210 in space/on earth and unfortunately the first couple of episodes kind of were like that, but afterwards the show got a bit grittier, with better writing. I'm optimistic, as the latter group of episodes were overall pretty decent.

BTW, I'm in Canada. It's on Netflix in Canada, but I don't know about in the US. It's on the CW for sure, but probably not Netflix in the USA.
 
Official CW website for The 100

Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.

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BTW, the show recycles several actors from Battlestar Galactica and other Canadian-filmed sci-fi series. I guess that makes sense because it's shot in Vancouver.
 
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T_Yamamoto said:
I heard a main character already died.
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Yes, sort of. They set up someone as a pseudo-main character and then killed that one off quickly, almost as character development for other characters.

n7 said:
First episode was pretty bad.
Haven't watched any others.
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Yeah, I wasn't impressed by the first one either. It does get significantly better though. It's not high-brow by any means, and does retain some of the teen-aspect of it, but nowhere near as 90120ish as the first couple of episodes.
 
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