When The 100 first premiered on The CW in 2014, many viewers were instantly hooked on the concept. It was a peak time for dystopian plots, as the first two Hunger Games movies had already hit theaters, and many fans were anticipating great things from the first film adaptations of The Maze Runner and Divergent. The 100 follows 100 juvenile delinquents (plus one stowaway) as they are sent from their space station to Earth, almost 100 years after previous generations abandoned it following a nuclear war.

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