Congratulations to The 100’s creative special effects team for this awesome nomination! We’ll be rooting for them to win on Emmy night!!

Congratulations to The 100 and we couldn’t agree more!

The 100 (The CW)

The CW is the last place you’d expect to find the most compelling science fiction currently on television—especially at midseason. But when The 100 premiered in March, the show quickly announced itself as exactly that. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where Earth was devastated by nuclear war—leaving only the humans on space stations unharmed—The 100 follows a group of 100 juvenile delinquents forced to investigate Earth’s potential for rehabitation. Splitting time between the teenagers on the ground and the adults (on a quickly deteriorating space station) who sent them there, The 100deftly navigates both the struggle of kids trying to build their own society and the politics of the adults left behind. Throughout the season the “ground” stories became increasingly more exciting, eschewing most teen-drama convention (aside from one ill-advised love triangle) and focusing on interesting questions like who has the right to inhabit the land and the moral responsibilities of being a successful leader. Everything comes to a head in the fantastic two-part season finale, setting a whole new story in motion and proving that The 100 is just getting started.
One to watch: “Earth Kills,” which hints at just how dark and morally complex the show will become. [CR]

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CW boss explains why ‘The 100’ Season 2 is only 16 episodes 

Season 2 of The CW’s series “The 100” is going to look a little different than Season 1.

And no, we’re not just talking about how Clarke and Monty and countless others are currently held hostage by thescientifically-advanced, militaristic Mountain Men inside Mount Weather and the Ark is no longer in space. But yeah, those are pretty big factors too.

On Friday (July 18), The CW’s president, Mark Pedowitz, kicked off his time at the 2014 summer TV press tour by discussing why “The 100” Season 2 is going to be longer than Season 1 … but not too long.

“We believe in the storytelling of [Season 1] that was only 13 episodes,” Pedowitz says. “There will be only 16 for this year so [executive producer] Jason [Rothenberg] could do the stories that he needed to do in a very quick fashion to get it out there.”

As for how dark and violent the series became quickly into Season 1, Pedowitz is a fan of the risks Rothenberg has taken, and how it’s paid off for the network.