Who would have thought when it started that The 100, a series originating on The CW about an attractive group of young people who have no parental supervision, was going to be about politics, love, survival, war crimes and more? Certainly not me, but The 100 has proved it’s a TV show that is constantly underestimated….
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TV recap: The 100 season two, episode seven – Long Into an Abyss
Last time on The 100, Abby headed into the woods with Raven to track down the signal blocking Camp Jaha’s communications with the other Ark stations. Finn and Clarke got stuck together during an acid fog attack, while Octavia and Bellamy found Lincoln – who had become a reaper. And Kane and Jaha played chicken…
TV recap: The 100 season two, episode six – Fog of War
Last time on The 100, Kane and Jaha were reunited in a Grounder prison, and Abby and Clarke were reunited at Camp Jaha, before Clarke headed off with Bellamy and Octavia to find Finn and Murphy. Any thoughts of a happy reunion with Finn were quashed when he was discovered indiscriminately killing Grounders in Lincoln’s…
TV recap: The 100 season two, episode five – Human Trials
Last time on The 100, Clarke and Anya found Camp Jaha and decided to form an alliance to take down the Mountain Men. Only Anya was shot to death by Major Byrne’s soldiers before she could do anything. Finn and Murphy headed to a Grounder camp to try to find Clarke and the others from…
TV recap: The 100 season two, episode four – Many Happy Returns
Last time on The 100, Clarke and Anya escaped from Mount Weather, and then Anya knocked Clarke out. Finn murdered a Grounder during his search for information about the whereabouts of Clarke and the other members of The 100, and Kane headed off on a quest to make peace with the Grounders. In the woods…
TV recap: The 100 season two, episode three – Reapercussions
Last time on The 100, Clarke became ever more suspicious of the Mountain Men, and discovered they were using Grounders’ blood to treat their wounded – and in doing so found Anya. Meanwhile, Finn broke Bellamy and Murphy out of Camp Jaha’s jail, and along with Sterling and Monroe, they set out to find their…
TV recap: The 100 season two, episode two – Inclement Weather
Last time on The 100, Clarke was suspicious of the Mountain Men, despite the clean clothes and chocolate cake they provide. In the forest, poison running through Octavia’s blood led Lincoln to leave her to go find an antidote, while Bellamy attempted to rescue Finn from the Grounders and succeeded in getting himself captured. Luckily,…
TV recap: The 100 season two, episode one – The 48
Welcome back, The 100. I’ve missed you, your kick-arse feminist characters, your depressing amount of bloodshed and your politics. Last time I saw you, everything had gone wrong – Clarke and Monty were imprisoned in white cells, Bellamy and Finn were probably (not) dead, and Octavia and Raven were both badly wounded. So what’s new?…
Feminism and The 100 – part two
I’ve already dealt with leadership in The 100, which I think clearly shows the show’s feminist credentials, but there’s plenty more going on, and we’ll start with something that often defines women in television…Motherhood Mothers are vulnerable, right? They’re either too busy being emotional wrecks because of their children, or sacrificing themselves for their kids,…
Sarah Shaffi 