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Is The 100 Worth Watching? A Complete Review

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Updated: September 6, 2020

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Developed by Jason Rothenberg, this science-fiction drama set in a post-apocalyptic world premiered on The CW network in 2014 .

As the story progressed and the seasons piled on, new threats emerged, new alliances were formed, and various love triangles were created and broken apart.

Although it didn’t feature great acting talent, the fast-paced show always managed to keep the viewers entertained with a new twist just around the corner and stunning visuals, costumes, and makeup. Read on for a complete review as the show enters its seventh and final season.

1. Quick Review

During its 6 year run, The 100 has struggled to keep the viewer’s interest thanks to the inconsistent story telling. Inconsistent in pace, tension, complexity and most importantly it’s ability to entertain.

The show has had to keep reinventing itself after the initial premise was exhausted over the first two seasons.

Although it does get repetitive and boring and there’s a bizarre nuclear holocaust whenever a new spin on things is needed, The 100 is still a decent sci-fi show with a loyal cult following.

2. Is It Worth Watching?

The 100 starts as a teenage romance adventure in a post-apocalyptic world, but the show has managed to push past that vibe. With bloody and gruesome scenes of violence and multiple deaths of characters who were a part of the initial group of a hundred, the show is a sci-fi treat with a serious undertone.

97 years after a nuclear apocalypse devastates the Earth and leaves it uninhabitable, the remaining survivors of the human race live in a space station orbiting the Earth known as the Ark.

Life on the Ark follows a strict rule of law, and every crime is punishable by death unless you’re under 18 years of age. Three generations of humans have been born on the Ark, and it cannot accommodate all of them. Even worse, its oxygen system is broken, and the air is running out.

The group decides to send one hundred of their juvenile delinquents to the Earth to check if it is inhabitable. If they survive, then The Ark will follow them ,and if they die, it means more air for everyone.

When the group lands in the first season, they find that there are groups of survivors still living on the planet locked in tribal warfare.

In Six Seasons, they have fought hostile Grounders and massacred Mountain Men. They have fought a sentient A.I. system, battled with criminals, and been to space and back. Many characters have died, relationships have fallen apart, and new ones have formed. There have been several instances of betrayal, and heroic deeds mixed with bloody violence and death.

In the last season finale, the creators put the survivors in 125 years of cryosleep. The final season will see them waking up and coming across a newly inhabited planet . We’ll see the group battle new challenges face new villains and enter a new society as they may try to undo the wrongs of the past.

II. Cast & Performances

The massive cast of characters is led by Eliza Taylor, who plays Clarke Griffin, the leader of the landing group. She is accompanied by Paige Turco and Thomas McDonnell, among other older actors playing teenagers.

There are no standout performances, but the series packs an emotional punch as every character is scarred by the incidents and deaths they have witnessed. The death of some of the side characters also makes no one safe in this apocalyptic universe.

III. Visuals & Music

The makeup and costume departments have done a fabulous job over the years, giving us memorable villains and characters. From the primal Mountain Men to the dark blooded Nightbloods, the group encounters a massive array of creative characters.

The visuals of a post-apocalyptic Earth with its ruined and empty cities are chilling. The Ark space-station and the survivors’ camps of the Grounders are well designed and give a grim look to the show. The original theme has been composed by Liz Phair and Evan Frankfort.

3. Final Thoughts

Based on the novel by Kass Morgan, The 100 is a successful CW outing offering a look into the dystopian post-apocalyptic world.

As the seasons progressed and the writers took more creative liberties in inventing new plots, the show still remained fun to watch. The fast-paced narrative allowed the people to look past certain repetitive elements, and the show never lacked hair raising action-packed sequences.

It’s a great show for sci-fi lovers, and although the first couple of episodes are slow, you’ll be hooked if you give it a chance.

Cinematography/Animation: A

Direction: B+

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Violent dystopian drama with strong female role model.

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What you will—and won't—find in this TV show.

The series raises many weighty issues such as the

A mixed bag. Some characters are selfish, arrogant

Realistic violence, often with weapons such as gun

Teens flirt with each other and hint at sexuality,

"Damn," "hell," "screw hi

The show is based on a book of the same name and f

Parents need to know that The 100 has a lot of graphic violence and death, often at the hands of a group of teens who hash out power through beatings, torture, and weapon use. Graphic images of characters impaled by spears, strung up in trees, and subjected to other abuse are common, as is the threat of…

Positive Messages

The series raises many weighty issues such as the delicate balance between individual freedom and community well-being, the authority of government, and postapocalyptic life. Theirs is a reality in which they sacrifice their kids to test theories and kill for the slightest wrongdoing, but they have valid reasons for doing so. As such, it's not always easy to distinguish right from wrong in their actions or in the characters themselves.

Positive Role Models

A mixed bag. Some characters are selfish, arrogant, and resistant to authority, even when conforming is in the best interests of everyone involved. Others, such as Clark, are willing to risk everything to save the group for the sake of the human race as a whole. Those in power are similarly divided, and one character in particular acts on self-preserving instincts, even when it means killing others.

Violence & Scariness

Realistic violence, often with weapons such as guns or knives. In one scene, a teen is impaled on a spear and dies slowly. Teens threaten each other with weapons and engage in fistfights to settle differences. Peril exists at every turn, and enemies are often unseen. Mutated animals can be gruesome to look at, and some attack the teens. Capital punishment is the norm on the spacecraft, but the manner in which it's done isn't gory.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

Teens flirt with each other and hint at sexuality, but little beyond kissing is shown. Occasionally they do undress to their underwear for various reasons such as swimming.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Sex, Romance & Nudity in your kid's entertainment guide.

"Damn," "hell," "screw him," "sucks," and the like are frequent fliers.

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The show is based on a book of the same name and features popular musical selections in its soundtrack.

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Parents need to know that The 100 has a lot of graphic violence and death, often at the hands of a group of teens who hash out power through beatings, torture, and weapon use. Graphic images of characters impaled by spears, strung up in trees, and subjected to other abuse are common, as is the threat of capital punishment and selective murder by a powerful governing body. In other words, this drama -- based on a dystopian novel of the same name -- is heavy-handed and not for the faint of heart. That said, the violence isn't mindless, either, and is necessary to illustrate the show's messages about personal freedom and community rights, as well as the appropriate role of government influence in this particular society. Expect some strong language ("hell," "damn," and the like) and hints at romance, plus some partial nudity (a teen strips to her bra and panties to swim, for instance) in this thriller.

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Violent, gory, teen dystopian show, what's the story.

In THE 100, 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse wiped out life on Earth, leaving only the 400 people aboard a scattering of space stations alive, humans are returning to the planet for the first time. The emissaries are 100 juvenile prisoners who have spent their whole lives aboard the Ark, a colossal spacecraft formed by joining the 12 international space stations, which has served as the home for three generations of survivors and their offspring. Not yet 18 and thus not subject to the Ark's stringent capital-punishment law, the 100 juvies are sent to Earth as test subjects to gauge the safety of its elements for the entire population's eventual return. But once there, chaos ensues as various factions vie for dominance and many cut off communication with the Ark entirely. Standing strong is Clark Griffin (Eliza Taylor), a natural leader determined to survive and to reunite with her mom once the planet is deemed safe. But with time running out for the residents of the dying Ark and dangers lurking around every corner on Earth, is survival possible for any of them?

Is It Any Good?

Based on a book of the same name, this series is a tantalizing dystopian drama laced with suspense, teen romance, and plenty of bad guys you'll love to hate. Equally visible are some quality role models, particularly pragmatic Clark, whose only offense is spreading the truth about the Ark's dwindling supplies; and her fearless mom, Abby ( Paige Turco ), who sticks to her own ethical code in spite of outside pressure.

This action-packed show is heated and violent, yes, but it's not without good reason, given the urgency of the story line. Unquestioned capital punishment and the totalitarian power of the Ark's governing body would hardly be viable plot points for viewers if the story didn't present them in the right context of an oppressive, Draconian society. But even with such justification, the violence in The 100 is very graphic and often erupts between teens, so take care in sussing out your teen's readiness for this weighty story and its messages.

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Is some violent content better than other kinds in entertainment? Does it ever serve a valuable purpose? If so, what? In what other forms of media do you often witness violence ?

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Man cannot survive on bread alone — he must have kissing. Ninety-seven years after a nuclear holocaust wipes out life on Earth, the only survivors of the human race number 400: those left in space. Three generations later, the international space stations have been cobbled together to form “The Ark,” whose now 4,000 inhabitants are ready to return to Earth, but still fear its potential cloud of radiation. Unfortunately, their Ark is running out of oxygen because of a fatal malfunction. The solution is simple: Send 100 teenage criminals down to Earth. If they live, then the others will follow. If they die … well, they were going to be killed anyway (on the Ark, all crimes are punishable by death).

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The 100 is, in many ways, a metaphor for The CW itself. The teenagers escape to a planet that is all their own, where only the most attractive among them survive. Who needs adults? Who needs rules? After all, as lead character Clarke Griffin ( Eliza Taylor ) states in a moment of spontaneous philosophy: “Reality sucks .”

The Bottom Line A sci-fi pastiche filled with pretty faces, 'The 100' is an exploration-based series that never gets below the surface.

Totally. Which is why, when the hundred land, they’re more interested in stripping down and hooking up than finding food, water or shelter. As they trample the lush ground cover and pristine ferns (it’s remarkable how well the Earth has rebounded from the nukes; aside from a two-headed deer, a very large snake and some glowing fungi, things are Eden-like), the sky-born children scream unto the fertile landscape, “We’re back , bitches !”

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But the bitches of Earth 2.0 appear to give little protest. From there, the ragtag band begin splitting off into factions, a la Lord of the Flies . Like its cobbled-together Ark, the series itself is a pastiche of many other shows and stories: There are shades of Battlestar Galactica , Lost (including a hatch), 1984  and that aforementioned tale of ill-fated teenage governance. But these complex ideas are overshadowed by something much more important: Is Clarke going to fall in love with the daredevil Finn ( Thomas McDonell ) or the pushy leader Bellamy ( Bob Morley , whose face shall launch a thousand Tumblr GIFsets)? And what of Wells ( Eli Goree ), son of the much-hated Chancellor Jaha ( Isaiah Washington ), who has loved Clarke since they were tiny sky tots?

There are other love triangles, squares, hexagons and other permutations that form among other characters — like between Bellamy’s kissing-focused sister Octavia ( Marie Avgeropoulos ) and the goofy Jasper ( Devon Bostick ) — which drive most of the action (literally and figuratively) on Earth 2.0. Meanwhile though, in the sky, the adults are arguing over silly things like governance, population control, failing oxygen levels and the fate of humanity. Why don’t they spend their time figuring out important things, like how Bellamy’s abs are so perfect ?

The 100 has a lot of interesting things to play with in terms of its narrative and world-building, but it chooses to gloss over them. There are whispers of class struggle and of injustice, but those things aren’t as interesting or sexy as radioactive butterflies. Most unfortunately, the show has an incomprehensible issue with race. Minority characters (it’s interesting how delineated race continues to be three generations into a reduced population) are either given stereotypical roles (a “nerdy” Asian guy spends all day working on tech stuff, while a “feisty” Latina is a mechanic) or just silent ones (or even worse, dead). The Chancellor is black, but one character who hates him starts side-eyeing every black character she sees, because they remind her of him. Earth 2.0 seems to be back in the dark ages.

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As the series continues with all of these issues, there are also new threats to both those in the Ark and those on the ground, from within and without (for instance, the teenagers may not be alone on Earth). Unfortunately, most of the one hundred are a muttering mob of criminals without a lot of brainpower, which is both convenient and frightening. They agree with the person shouting the loudest, until someone else counters. They also employ the show’s favorite early form of exposition, which is “character traits explained by unidentified crowd shouts.” When Octavia runs up to embrace her brother (it is illegal to have more than one child on the Ark), an unseen town crier makes known, “Hey! That’s the girl they found under the floor!” 

It’s unclear yet whether the adults will follow the teenagers down to Earth and crash their party (it is notable that they didn’t even send one chaperone with them, which means the teens are free to rebel against the Ark pretty quickly in order to establish a place with no rules, as explained by their awkward “We’ll do whatever we want!” chant). The one hundred are, of course, “liberating” themselves from the doctors, farmers, engineers and others up in that Ark, which might set humanity back a few paces. On the other hand, procreation shouldn’t be a problem. Finding an audience for The 100 shouldn’t be, either, though that audience should demand a lot more from the series. Instead, like the initially driven Clarke, it’s so much less work to just settle for a kiss under a radiation-filled sky.

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Maybe a post-apocalyptic world doesn’t have to be all dust and cannibals. According to the CW, it could boast pretty teens, too.

Consider the scenario given to us in The 100 . Oh, things appear bleak at first. Civilization was obliterated by nuclear war nearly a century ago, and the remnants of humanity floated above their one-time home on a collection of space stations called the Ark. When the station went past its expiration date, its leaders sent a bevy of wayward teens—the 100—down to check terra firma out and see if the ol’ gal was habitable again.

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Sure enough, it was. In fact, it’s so habitable that other sorts of humans who were all thought to be long dead have actually been living on the surface for a good long while. Grounders have been hunting and foraging and getting rough and ready in this lush, violent paradise for decades. And Mountain Men have come to control cannibalistic, drugged-up human guard dogs who are “affectionately” called Reapers. And there’s even a mysterious place called the “City of Light,” a heavenly-like realm that true believers hold is a place free of physical and spiritual pain.

It’s about as good as earth can get these days. Until, of course, the violent new world, as they’ve come to know it, is destroyed again , and the remnants of humanity are forced to go back into space until they can find another habitable planet. Which, it turns out, is actually a moon bent on destroying all who walk its rugged terrain.

Out With the Abercrombie and In With the Float

During The 100’ s first season I said that this was a dystopian drama as imagined by Abercrombie & Fitch. That’s no longer so true. The teens are now weathered and grizzled—and aged beyond their years thanks to the threats they’ve had to deal with. And the show, like those teens, has grown deeper, more complex … and more problematic. Even as it dives into the morality of war and plays around with spiritual themes—a rare sight indeed in a teen-based drama—it serves up same-sex kisses and tries to redefine the word float as a new, censor-dodging stand-in for that still-banned-on-network-TV f-fronted obscenity (much as Battlestar Galactica did with frack). The petty lying, cheating and sleeping around continues (among the teens and adults). But this show is now not so much about who’s with whom as much as it is who’s going to live to the credits.

The 100 , even into the seventh season, has turned into a decidedly violent, often bloody drama—part Lord of the Flies , part Planet of the Apes , part Lost as reimagined by the CW. It superficially extols themes of faith, hope and love, and then it coats them with a sheen of gore.

Episode Reviews

May 20, 2020: “from the ashes”.

Clarke tries to determine what sort of example she should set for future generations while deciding the fate of Russell (a man who many believe to be a god but who is also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people—including Clarke’s mother).

A man’s throat is slit. A woman with a bleeding arm discovers a tube with a hidden message inside her wound. Three men are gunned down. One survivor tries to kill a woman before he’s shot again. A woman punches and kicks a man multiple times, causing him to bleed black blood, and eventually knocks him unconscious. She nearly leaves him to die in a burning building but decides to pull him out instead.

A man is knocked unconscious by invisible fiends and dragged off. His friends are thrown through the air by his assailants when they try to save him. A woman punches a man in the throat. Two women fist fight. People threaten each other with knives and guns. Two arguing groups of people nearly start a riot. Many people are armed with guns and use them to fire warning shots. Someone is upset that an “army of cannibal peacekeepers” is guarding a prisoner. People talk about nuclear bombs.

Many people worship and pray to Russell, believing him to be a god. (In reality, he just has access to very advanced technology.) People talk about a young girl who was possessed by an evil warlord. Later, a grown man also becomes possessed by him. Someone says that faith is both powerful and dangerous. Someone says, “Thank God.”

Several people hallucinate after inhaling a toxin in the air. A woman grieving the loss of her mother is reminded by her own adopted daughter that she isn’t the only one who has had to watch someone they love die. Another woman is bitter towards her mom for not allowing her to cry when her dad died. People drink in a tavern. Shirtless men and women wearing crop tops bathe in a communal pool. A guy calls his girlfriend “hot.” We hear a few uses each of “a–” and “h—,” as well as a couple misuses of God’s name.

April 30, 2019: “Sanctum”

Hundreds of years after earth’s destruction, Clarke and Bellamy wake up on a ship with hundreds of their friends still preserved through cryo-freezing by their deceased friend, Monty. Monty has left Clarke and Bellamy instructions on how to descend to a new planet—but this planet is actually a moon where nothing is as it seems.

Once Clarke, Bellamy and a few others land on this mysterious moon, they soon find that bugs have the ability to kill humans, and that the sun and air can be toxic and lead to insanity. While exploring, they come across a shrine sprinkled with blood, chains and demented drawings.

A man is electrocuted and killed. A woman nearly stabs a man to death. A man convulses and bleeds out (blood pours from his mouth and covers his body).

Men and women alike have difficulty forgiving one another, especially in light of their violent history on earth. A man asks those around him to pray for safety and tells Clarke that salvation “comes from what you do, not what you say.”

Women wear cleavage-baring tops and men go shirtless. Couples kiss, make-out and flirt. One couple lies under sheets after having sex. God’s name is misused twice and other profanity includes multiple uses of “h—,” “b–ch,” “d–n,” “d–mit,” “p-ssed” and “crap.”

Aug. 7, 2018: “Damocles”

In the series finale, Madi takes her place as the leader of the 100. McCreary does whatever he can to take control of earth, even if that means destroying it.

As Madi and McCreary’s soldiers wage war, bodies are blown up, shot and severely injured. Blood pours from wounds and covers the ground. We see mangled limbs and hear people groan in agony. One man is tortured as his teeth are ripped out and is legs are nearly broken. An evil man is electrocuted after he threatens to kill everyone on earth. A woman is knocked unconscious.

A woman threatens to shoot an unborn child. Buildings explode, guns are shot and rockets are launched. A young girl is instructed to summon spirits. There is a spiritual reference to the serpents in the Garden of Eden. Women wear revealing clothing, couples kiss and profanity includes a stand in for the f-word (“float”) and other words such as “h—,” “d–n,” and “d–mit.”

July 17, 2018: “The Warriors Will”

Madi has recently been implanted with a stone that makes her the rightful commander of evil dictator Octavia’s people. But her pseudo-mother, Clarke, will do whatever it takes to keep Madi from challenging Octavia’s reign. Octavia, for her part, ruthlessly gives her followers only one choice: Obey me, or die.

Violence spews from every corner of what’s left of the Earth. People are shot in the head, throats are slit, and a man bites the throats of two soliders (we see him chewing hungrily on their flesh as blood spurts from throats and other body parts). Someone slits an arm and smears blood on his face. A dictator who is “dead inside” sets fire to the only life source left for her people and forces them to fight to the death in an arena. Fear and force are used to control those who refuse to fall in line. Two people suffer from incurable diseases (often causing them to vomit). A female doctor is poisoned.

A woman prays to “the spirit of the commander.” Some women’s tops reveal cleavage. We hear the words “d–n” and “d–mit.”

The 100: April 24, 2018 “Eden”

Following Praimfaya, a nuclear death wave that destroyed most of planet earth, Clarke is left alone on earth after helping her friends return to space. Now, she must fight for her survival, meeting unexpected friends and foes along the way.

The earth has been virtually destroyed, excepted for one spot called “Eden.” As Clarke (unknowingly) makes her way to this paradise, she must weather storms and natural disasters while searching for food and water. At one point, she thinks of committing suicide but is distracted when a bird (a sign of life and water) flies overhead. She wonders if life is comprised of only pain and suffering. She nearly starves to death and evades death on multiple occasions. Eventually, she meets Madi, a young girl who’s the only other person Clarke knows on earth. Before the two become friends, Madi attempts to kill Clarke out of fear. Six years pass and the two form an unbreakable bond before a spaceship of mercenaries lands on earth, changing everything.

God’s name is misused twice and words like “h—,” “b–ch,” and “suck” are heard. Men and women get into brutal physical fights with one another. Hundreds of dead bodies, both adults and children, are seen (the result of world-wide radiation). Clarke strips down to her bra and underwear before swimming. She’s violently attacked, and she and Madi shoot two men in the head. Clarke gives herself stitches and shoots and eats a bird. A woman’s top reveals some cleavage and couples embrace and passionately kiss.

The 100: Feb. 18, 2016 “Hakeldama”

The episode’s title takes its name from the New Testament’s “field of blood,” associated with Judas Iscariot. And, indeed, traitorous activity is in abundance here.

Pike, the newly elected chancellor of the Ark, has attacked and killed an army of previously friendly Grounders—slaughtering even the wounded. (We see a field covered in corpses.) Former leader Clarke, who has lived with the Grounders for months, sneaks into the encampment to talk with onetime ally Bellamy, but is, in turn, betrayed by him. And Thelonious, the former chancellor, returns from the City of Light to convert who he can to his “faith.” He gives the injured Raven a pill/wafer with an infinity symbol on it, and when she takes it her damaged leg seems to feel better. And the dialogue surrounding this “special” city is deeply steeped in religious ideas. Thelonious sees and talks with a sexily dressed woman in red whom no one else can see.

We see more punching and pummeling. An attack ends in death. A woman bears a bloody, nearly fatal wound from a battle. Someone is zapped with a security weapon. Knives are held to throats. Dire threats are hurled. A corpse is carried on a cart. A man and a woman burgle travelers, with the man lying in the road pretending to be dead. (He smears his face with animal blood to look the part.) We see a couple kiss. Characters say “h—” and “d–n,” and they use the word float as a substitute for the f-word.

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“Survival of the Fittest”

Marcus invites a bevy of Grounders to forge an alliance against the Mountain Men. Clarke and Commander Lexa are stuck in the woods with a crazed gorilla. Bellamy and one-time Reaper Lincoln make their dangerous way into Mount Weather. And Jaha encourages Murphy to help him search for a rumored “City of Light.”

Clarke’s bodyguard dies after her arm gets ripped off. A Grounder shoots arrows at Clarke, chokes her and nearly kills her, but Lexa throws a knife into the dude’s wrist, buries an ax in his leg and leaves him for the gorilla. Grounders beat each other senseless in training. When Octavia insists on taking part, her opponent hits her, kicks her and nearly kills her. We hear about lots of other deaths, including by immolation. We see skeletons and half-eaten animal corpses dripping with gore.

Lexa says that, should she die, her spirit will pick a new leader, which Clarke interprets as a belief in reincarnation. Lincoln can’t resist the pull of the drugs he and other Reapers became addicted to. Characters say “a–,” “h—” and “d–n” (two or three times each).

100: 4-9-2014

“Murphy’s Law”

Protagonist Clarke removes her wristband (which tells the Ark that she’s still alive) partly to upset her mother. Mom is indeed worried, and she speeds up illicit plans to launch a pod to check on the 100’s progress.

When the teens find the fingers of one of their fellows who was thought to be killed by grounders, we’re “treated” to a view of them sitting next to a bloody knife. Blame shifts quickly from the grounders to Murphy, who is nearly beaten to death before he’s strung up by his neck. When a 13-year-old girl then confesses to the crime, Murphy demands the girl’s life, and she obliges by jumping off a cliff. Murphy’s then brutally beaten some more before being banished.

Clarke and Finn strip off their clothes (we see both of them shirtless, her from the back), make out, fall onto a couch and have sex. (The last bit isn’t shown.) Two other teens kiss. Demanded bribes include sex and/or drugs. We hear “b‑‑ch” and “d‑‑n” twice each and “h‑‑‑” a half-dozen times. Someone disparages some sort of church service taking place in the Ark. Clarke and Finn keep secrets from the rest of the camp.

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'100' movie review: A passable thriller with a laughable twist

Updated - May 11, 2019 03:15 pm IST

Published - May 11, 2019 11:44 am IST

Atharvaa doesn’t boast of a colourful resume. A cursory look at his filmography, and you can easily slot it into three phases. The romantic phase where he made films like Baana Kaathadi and Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal . The catering to B and C centres phase, with films like Eeti , Kanithan and Chandi Veeran . Currently, Atharvaa is in the mass zone. We saw that earlier in Boomerang and now, 100 .

A college brawl involving a female student sets off things. The boys wait for Sathya’s (Atharvaa) arrival. He gets a slow-mo intro. Which is to say that he has arrived. But not quite.

What explains Tamil cinema’s fascination for naming police officers Sathya? Vijay was called Satyamoorthy in Pokkiri . Ajith Kumar was called Satyadev in Yennai Arindhaal . Sibiraj was Sathya in well, Sathya . Narain was Sathyavan in Anjathey (more about this later). Atharvaa too plays Sathya here. Yes, a police officer.

• Cast: Atharvaa, Hansika Motwani, Yogi Babu and Radha Ravi
• Director: Sam Anton
• Storyline: Sathya aspires to be a super cop, but lands up working as a control room operator. When an opportunity presents itself, he tries to save the day.

The brawl ushers Sathya to meet Nisha (played by Hansika Motwani. More than 40 films, and she still cannot get the lip-sync right). The moment you discover that her name is Nisha, you squirm. Given Tamil cinema’s history, heroines who are named Nisha (Kajal Aggarwal was Nisha in Thuppakki ... just saying) disappear after four scenes and two songs. And these songs, too, will have montages of the hero-heroine spending time on the beach, visiting recently-opened malls in Chennai, taking selfies, exhibiting their cuteness and so on. Sam Anton doesn’t seem to care about the clichés as long as the masses are entertained. Speaking of masses, Yogi Babu is the silver lining in 100. His gag involving Radha Ravi and Vishal is a hoot.

The premise borrows its one-liner from Mysskin’s gorgeous Anjathey — two friends-turned-foes rediscover their friendship, with sexual assault and extortion as the backdrop.

With a stern look and bulging biceps, Sathya hopes of becoming a rough-and-tough police officer, upholding justice. By his own terms, he doesn’t believe in earning quick money and wishes to sweat it out. When he finds out that his girlfriend is a telecaller, he laughs. But the joke is on him, for he’s commissioned to work as a control room operator, taking calls that begin with “hello, nooru ”. The scenes inside the control room are genuinely interesting and present a picture as to how these officers function — like when they get a hoax call. Sathya is dejected by the setup, but is convinced by his superior officer, Pistol Perumal (Radha Ravi), that his 100th call would be a gamechanger.

100 has good ideas that needed better writing. For instance, packets of drugs are casually stuffed inside a cell phone box and delivered like an online order. The plot begins to heat up when a schoolgirl gets brutally murdered — something similar to the Swathi murder case. When Sathya receives his 100th call, from the same girl who was reported to be dead, he smells a network behind the kidnappings. But the film loses its audience when the director tries to stitch together the plausibility of events, with an absurd twist.

Tamil filmmakers are in their ‘woke’ phase right now and what better than sexual harassment cases, which have been making headlines every other day? Filmmakers tend to normalise sexual assault by reducing it to a narrative device, and end up harassing the audience. The latest entrant being 100 .

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The 100  season 7 ends the episode “The Last War”, tying a bow on what has been a rather polarizing season - and overarching story for Clarke Griffin. While there is still the as-yet-unnamed The 100 spinoff in the works, this is the end for the characters audiences have been following since the show began in 2014.

The 100 started off as a rather straightforward adaptation of a young adult book series but quickly matured. It became a show largely about what people are willing to do to save themselves or the people close to them, going to unexpectedly dark places for what started with a relatively light pilot episode considering it was set nearly a century after a nuclear apocalypse.

Related: The 100 Easter Egg Makes Madi’s "Death" Even Sadder

While the early seasons of The 100 were mostly earthbound, seasons 6 and 7 explored groups of humans that survived by leaving Earth. This was taken to its extreme in season 7, where the show leaned heavily into spirituality, including most of what was left of humanity transcending their physical forms.

What The Last War Really Is

While Cadogan had insisted that humanity was headed towards a last war, he was only partially correct. Jordan actually had the correct reading, that instead of a war, it was a test for humanity. Whoever steps through the Anomaly to reach the Judge represents their species for the chance to transcend if they’re worthy - or be destroyed if they’re not. This is what spooked Becca so much back in “Anaconda” – she knew that humanity wasn’t ready to be judged, so she refused to take the test and tried to stop Cadogan from taking the test himself. (It made sense given that humanity had just doomed Earth in a nuclear apocalypse.)

It’s unclear just how many species have been eliminated by taking the test, as the only one we know about for sure are the Bardoans, but it’s implied that it’s difficult for a species as a whole to pass the test. While Cadogan was wrong in general about there being a war, he was partially correct in this case. The test ends up being the Judge and Raven watching the people of Bardo and Sanctum facing off against each other as things are about to erupt into outright warfare. Instead of the war happening and a victor being declared, however, the objective of the Last War ends up being preventing the war from happening - the opposite of what the Disciples believed.

Why Clarke Failed The Test But Raven Didn’t

While the test is about humanity as a whole, a lot of it is influenced by who takes it. Clarke fails the test because she was driven by the wrong motivations. When Clarke took the test, she was filled with grief and anger, killing random Disciples on the way to the Stone Room just because they were there. There may have been a time where she could have made a better case, when she was willing to sacrifice and make hard decisions for selfless reasons, but Clarke was the wrong person at the time, exacerbated by the fact that Madi had effectively "died".

Raven, meanwhile, passed the test because of her perseverance. Earlier in The 100 season 7, Raven was pushed towards being more ruthless like Clarke but stopped herself short because she didn’t want to be that kind of person. Clarke failed, but Raven wouldn’t let that be the end and was insistent that humanity could be saved, going back in and forcing the Judge to test them again. Raven didn’t give up here when it looked like Sheidheda would cause war to break out, as she’s always done. The best example comes from season 4, when Raven even went as far as killing herself and rigging up a defibrillator to revive her because that’s what it took to help save people (which was referenced in the finale), and that persistence paid off in saving humanity.

Raven didn’t do it alone, though, with Octavia also playing a pivotal role. While Raven made the case to the Judge that humanity was worth transcending (or, at least, being allowed to live and be retested later on), Octavia proved humans were indeed good. Back in season 5, Octavia led Wonkru into a pointless war that destroyed the last remaining survivable land on Earth because she didn’t want to lose. Here, she stood between two armies, who were ready to open fire indiscriminately, and talked them down from fighting, proving Raven’s point that people can be saved - even those who have fallen into the deepest pits of despair.

Related: How The 100 Season 7 Sets Up The Prequel TV Show

Why Clarke Can Never Transcend

Clarke finds herself left on Earth after the rest of humanity transcends, seemingly with only Russell’s dog, Picasso, as company. While Clarke thinks this is a continuation of her need to bear the consequences instead of others, the Judge explains that’s not necessarily the case. It’s not because she failed the test or because of her many mass murders, such as the genocide at Mount Weather . Instead, it was Clarke killing Cadogan that excluded her. While humanity as a whole was deemed worthy, Clarke crossed a line that no one from any species had before when she killed someone while they were taking the test, something that had never happened before. The Judge deemed this unacceptable, so Clarke wasn’t allowed the choice to transcend like everyone else.

How Emori Transcends & Lives (Despite Dying)

It’s established early in the finale that someone cannot transcend after they’ve died. Levitt explains this to Octavia in the context of Bellamy not getting to transcend despite his belief, which leads to her desperation in keeping Echo and Levitt alive just a little bit longer at the end.

This just asks the question of how Emori transcends, since she dies early in the episode. The key to this is her Mind Drive. She and Murphy took over the roles of Daniel and Kaylee Prime at the end of The 100 season 6 in exchange for the Mind Drives. Jackson installs Emori’s Mind Drive in Murphy’s body after Emori dies, intended to give them just a short time together. Instead, Emori is allowed to transcend, meaning that however the Judge determines who’s alive or dead isn’t just tied to their original body - it's likely their mind. This makes sense considering Madi transcends as well, despite her being completely paralyzed - which the Judge doesn't think of as dead, which Clarke rebukes.

While it’s satisfying to see Emori get the chance to transcend, it leaves the fate of a couple of other characters unclear. Is just having the Mind Drive enough to transcend? If so, then Ryker and Gabriel should also have transcended, as there was never a confirmation of either of their Mind Drives being destroyed. Ultimately, since neither was a major character until much later in the story, leaving that loose end untied isn’t a big issue.

Everyone Who Refuses Transcendence & Why

After Clarke finds herself seemingly alone on Earth, the Judge explains that transcendence is actually a choice, not something forced upon everyone. Everyone in the past had chosen to transcend, but it’s revealed that many humans opted out (which the Judge considers a strange curiosity), and audiences see that many of Clarke’s friends have returned to Earth: Raven, Murphy, Emori, Octavia, Indra, Gaia, Jackson, Miller, Echo, Niylah, Jordan, and Hope.

No one explains why they chose to come back rather than transcend, but it’s not too difficult to see some reasons why. Without them, Clarke would be left alone on Earth without any of her friends. This already happened at the  end of The 100 season 4 , with Raven, Murphy, Emori, and Echo going up to space and Octavia, Indra, Gaia, Jackson, Miller, and Niylah remaining in the bunker, leaving Clarke alone on the surface for six years. Given the chance, they’re not going to leave her alone again.

They were also choosing to live on their own terms, rather than surrender themselves to a greater power, paralleling the City of Light from season 3. While survival was guaranteed in transcending, there’s a difference between surviving and living, as Murphy emphasized earlier in the episode talking to Emori in the Mindspace. By refusing transcendence, Clarke’s friends chose to live as humans, with all the messiness that it entails.

Related:  The 100 Killing Bellamy Wasn't A Mistake (How It Happened Was)

The 100’s Final Scene & Season 1 Callback

The 100 season 7's final scene flashes back to Clarke drawing in her cell from the pilot episode - in fact, it was the opening scene of the series. While it’s hard to tell what Clarke's drawing it was, it looked like a drawing of people on Earth. This was an idealistic drawing of what it would be like to be on Earth. When she was still considered a child, back before she knew what things were like on the ground, Clarke was imagining the peaceful idea of what life would be like when people returned to the ground. The scene Clarke walks into is that expectation realized. This is everyone who has survived every challenge alongside Clarke, and they now get that chance to live peacefully on Earth. She’s finally at peace, getting the ending that she’d dreamed of all those years before.

The 100 Ending’s Real Meaning Explained

The 100 has been about fighting from early on: fighting between members of the delinquents; battles with the grounders; escaping Mount Weather; defeating ALIE; racing against time with Praimfaya; fighting the Eligius IV crew; surviving Sanctum; and then finally taking on Cadogan and his Disciples. There’s either always been a war going or one just over the horizon. In the end, though, the fighting didn't win the day. There have always been characters pushing for peace, starting all the way back with Finn trying to make peace with the Grounders in season 1. Clarke fought for peace many times herself, from acting as ambassador to Lexa in season 3 to stopping Echo from killing everyone in Bardo in season 7. Octavia was the peacemaker at the end, not Clarke, but it’s been a part of the show’s DNA the whole time.

That fighting doesn’t work because, in the end, even the people we oppose are still human and we’ll all share in the same fate. Octavia and Diyoza were the leaders of opposing armies in season 5. And when their war broke out, it destroyed their chance to live on Earth, so it didn’t matter which side they were on. Despite that, they became family when they were ostracized from Sanctum and later stranded on Skyring, raising Hope together . Almost everyone who appears with Clarke at the end had stories like this: Emori held a knife to Murphy’s throat when they first met, Echo almost killed Octavia, Murphy shot and nearly paralyzed Raven, Levitt was part of torturing people, and yet they prospered after realizing they were all human and there was no point in dividing themselves.

This closely parallels the City of Light from season 3 - with a big difference. Transcendence, like joining the City of Light, is a literal way of bringing all of humanity together as consciousness with no pain or death. ALIE was doing it to save humanity, but there was a difference between ALIE and the Judge: choice. Clarke tries to get ALIE to make the City of Light a choice, but she refuses to do so. The Judge lets people make that choice instead, and many of them do. Clarke’s friends choose to live the messy lives of being human - after learning to cope with the idea of being human, even with all of the pain associated with it - while everyone who transcends was given the opportunity not to.

And so The 100 ends with humanity showing that they’re deserving of the opportunity to do better. Even at the brink of war, they can find common ground and do much better than fighting or destruction. Humanity is capable of peace if given the choice, even if it’s incredibly difficult to get there.

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100 movie review: Ramesh Aravind’s thriller is a stark reminder of the ills of social media

A cybercriminal locks horns with a cybercrime police officer; they are both good at what they do. But who will have the last laugh?

• Prathibha Joy

Last Updated: 01.34 PM, Nov 19, 2021

Story: Inspector Vishnu is an honest officer of the cybercrime division, often tasked with tapping conversations of crooked cops and politicians for the ‘greater good’. But then, he crosses paths with a cybercriminal who may just derail all of Vishnu’s work.

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Review: Most of us are guilty of oversharing on social media – every occasion, every feeling is documented on the web – much to the delight of cybercriminals, who harvest every bit of information that can be used against us and to their benefit. We also often ignore safety and security protocols and keep our profiles open to everyone, as we crave validation in the form of likes and comments. News reports of cybercrimes, like stalking, phishing, or thefts after ‘check-in posts’ about being on holiday, etc., have not really deterred us from looking at our smart devices every now and then to check the latest on social media.

This need to be ‘seen, heard and appreciated’ by strangers is what actor-filmmaker Ramesh Aravind’s taps into with his latest directorial, 100, which is in theatres today. A thriller about the evils of social media, the film has him play a cybercrime inspector called Vishnu. Although the crux of the story revolves around exploitation through social media, there’s also an angle about nefarious deals conducted by Vishnu with the use of the technology at his disposal. Tasked by his boss, played by Prakash Belawadi, to look into crooked cops and politicians by tapping their phones, Vishnu uses some of the information gleaned for his own schemes. What exactly is he up to?

When he then crosses paths with notorious cybercriminal Harsha, whose primary hobby is to woo and then entrap gullible women into sharing his bed and then blackmailing them, things get personal for Vishnu. Harsha, as it turns out, has fixed Vishnu’s sister Hima as his next target and is angling for the latter’s wife Anagha as well. Taking on the tech-smart Harsha won’t be easy though, as Vishnu finds out. Can he get his family out of this trap unscathed?

In trying to keep the thriller pacy, and at a taut 2-hour run-time only, 100 does feel rushed at times. In interviews about 100 , Ramesh had said that he changed the characterization for his role around to suit his image and he sticks to his word. His every word and action as Vishnu is relatable and believable, with the actor-filmmaker not attempting anything over the top. The pairing of Purnaa and Ramesh is also rather refreshing. Debutant Vishwa Karna has good screen presence, but his ‘swalpa nagi, boss’ gets jarring after a point. Rachita Ram as Hima is at her bubbliest best in the character that was added into Susi Ganeshan’s original screenplay (Thiruttu Payale 2) by Ramesh. 

Verdict: 100 is a lesson on social media addiction and the red herrings you should be aware of. There’s a reason we are told, as children, not to talk to strangers, which we conveniently forget in adulthood, especially on social media. 100 will make you think twice before accepting a friend request next time.

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The Ending Of The 100 Explained

The CW's science-fiction television series The 100 started in 2014 and aired its seventh and final season in 2020. At the show's start, the setting is 2149, and 100 delinquent teenagers are sent down to Earth to test if it's livable again, after an apocalyptic event seemingly destroys it with radiation. This crew of "the 100" includes the young, resilient leader Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor) , troublemaker Murphy (Richard Harmon), best friends Monty and Jasper (Christopher Larkin and Devon Bostick), and siblings Octavia and Bellamy Blake (Marie Avgeropoulos and Bob Morley). Genius engineer Raven Reyes ( Lindsey Morgan ) joins them on the ground soon after.

Throughout seven seasons, the 100 survivors face many extreme challenges, including war with the native clans, a tyrannical AI, and oh yes, another apocalypse. At the beginning of season 7, the much smaller crew is on another planet having just survived a cult takeover attempt, when they come face to face with something called the Anomaly. This is a wormhole that essentially acts as a portal to a different system of planets, controlled by a group called the Disciples. The season 7 story is quite jumbled and hard to understand, but at its simplest, Bellamy, Octavia, Charmaine Diyoza (Ivana Milicevic), and Diyoza's daughter Hope (Shelby Flannery) become heavily involved with the Disciples and the Anomaly. Clarke and the others back at Sanctum have their own trouble to deal with as Sheidheda, the Dark Commander, vies for control. But soon enough, the two stories become fully intertwined, as the end of  The 100  draws near.

So how does Clarke and  The 100 's story end?

The 100 crew's journey through the Anomaly to transcendence

To untangle a long and winding story, the Disciples are a cult of fellow survivors of Earth who worship a man called the Shepherd, also known as Bill Cadogan (John Pyper-Ferguson), and foresee a "last war." Through Octavia and the others stuck in the Anomaly, the group learns that the Disciples have it wrong, and the "last war" is actually a "last test," a final judgement that will supposedly grant the human race "transcendence" — if they pass, that is. Cadogan is eventually able to access the final test for transcendence and the privilege of joining "with the consciousness of an alien race, who are considered a higher form of beings," as Den of Geek explains it. Cadogan goes in, but before he can do anything, Clarke appears and kills him, beginning her own judgement. 

With Clarke's dark past as Wanheda, aka the Commander of Death, it should be no surprise to learn that she fails. Raven enters to get a second chance, and the judge transports them to where Wonkru and the Disciples are currently on the precipice of a full-on battle to determine the final decision. At first it seems like another failure, but soon Octavia is able to convince everyone that they need to unify, not fight each other. The judge allows the human race to transcend, save Clarke. In the final scene of the series, Clarke appears on Earth to live out the rest of her days on her own. As she approaches a nearby beach, she comes across a surprising sight. It turns out many of her friends decide not to transcend, staying on Earth with Clarke in their own little paradise. 

The 100 characters we lost along the way

There are a couple important characters who unfortunately don't make it to the series finale. The first is Diyoza, who dies in episode 10, "A Little Sacrifice." Shortly after being reunited with her daughter, Diyoza sacrifices herself to stop Hope from becoming a vengeful murderer like her. It's a sad but understandable sacrifice.

Then there's Bellamy. This death has gotten a lot of backlash from fans, and with good reason. In season 7, episode 13, "Blood Giant," Bellamy is shot by Clarke in an attempt to protect Madi from the Disciples. As Emily Hannemann at TV Insider put it, "Bellamy's death rings of shock value rather than narrative weight. He didn't even have meaningful last words, like Lexa, Lincoln, or Jasper, and he died a villain to those he loved and sacrificed for, again and again, throughout the show. That stings." Bellamy and Clarke's relationship, romantic or not, is one of the main pillars of The 100, and both of their actions at this moment feel very out-of-character. Even in the midst of such strong emotion, Clarke would normally be smart and calculating enough to know that his death is not necessary, and considering she doesn't even get the notebook that holds the information about Madi, it's all for naught. 

One thing that should be noted is Morley asked to have a smaller role in the last season because he was dealing with mental illness. But knowing his wife, Taylor, the actress who plays Clarke, has said "I don't necessarily agree with Bellamy's death," there might be more to the story (via LA Times ).

The history of disappointing deaths in The 100

This disappointing death is honestly not too surprising given the history of the show. In season 3 of The 100 , fan-favorite character Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey), one half of the beloved "Clexa" — Clarke and Lexa — relationship, is killed by a stray bullet. The showrunner, Jason Rothenberg, was accused of perpetuating the "Bury Your Gays" trope, in which "a disproportionate number of LGBT characters [are] killed off, often in the name of propping up and/or advancing a heterosexual leading character's storyline." The Hollywood Reporter wrote about this trend in the aftermath of Lexa's death, stating that at the time of publication, March 21, 2016, "In the past 30 days, four lesbian or bisexual female characters have been killed off on their respective TV shows" that include Jane the Virgin, The Walking Dead, The Magicians, and of course, The 100.

This started a worldwide movement of #LexaDeservedBetter , which spawned a fundraiser for The Trevor Project that raised over $155,000. Rothenberg wrote a letter to fans apologizing, but it definitely tainted the show. Debnam-Carey has appeared in a few episodes since her character's death, and she returns one last time in the series finale. Unfortunately, it's Clarke's interpretation of the transcendence judge, not the real Lexa. Soon after, another fan-favorite character appears when Raven tries for transcendence, as the alien judge takes the form of Abby (Paige Turco), Clarke's mom and Raven's mother figure. The two have a very close relationship throughout the series until Abby's death in season 6.

Is it a fitting ending for The 100?

This is ultimately up to the fans.  The 100 series finale has led to a lot of debate, and the response is largely mixed. Some fans found the ending to be satisfying, like user brycenh30 , who shared on Reddit that "this blew me away, one of the best series finales I've watched." On the other hand, some people like u/Elairah_ said, "This whole transcendence thing just feels like a cop out for story telling [...] I thought this show was about free will, sacrifice, humanity and survival... but I felt like it was taken away in the name of religion and 'a higher power.'" Don't take the fans' word for it, and interpret The 100 series finale however you want. 

Despite whatever you may think about the ending, The 100 should still be remembered as a landmark series, as it showcases a diverse cast of characters with a bisexual female lead. Adina Porter, who plays the warrior Indra, said, "I cannot tell you how many times women want to give me a hug," and explained "how many Black women come up to me and thank me for wearing my hair natural on television. I think people appreciate that maybe they also can have a swagger and be a badass after being 35 years old. It makes me feel like I'm giving them a reflection that it's possible" (via LA Times ).

Thankfully, the story of The 100  might not be over just yet, as there is a prequel series in development at The CW that's status is still up in the air.  The 100 aired the backdoor pilot for the prequel series as season 7, episode 8, "Anaconda."

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The best horror movie of 2024 arrives with a perfect 100% critic score.

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Every year there are a few buzzed-about horror movies released, but I haven’t seen this much hype for one in a good long while. The movie is Longlegs, hitting theaters this upcoming weekend, and it’s a strange name for what appears to be an incredibly terrifying, incredibly good film.

As it stands, with 25 reviews in, Longlegs has a perfect 100% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes , not a very common achievement for a mainstream horror film. Here’s a synopsis of the movie:

“In the 1990s, new FBI agent Lee Harker was assigned to an unsolved case involving the Satanic serial killer known as Longlegs. As the investigation becomes more complicated with occult evidence uncovered, Harker realizes a personal link to the killer and must act quickly to prevent another family murder.”

The cast is pretty great too. It stars Maika Monroe (It Follows), Alicia Witt (OG Dune), Blair Underwood (Rules of Engagement), Kiernan Shipka (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and Nicholas Cage (everything). Monroe in particular is cementing her status as a true icon of horror after starring in both this as It Follows, which I’d consider to be an all-time great horror film, and one of my favorites. Cage as the killer (this is not a secret) is being praised as unsettling well beyond what we thought may have been possible from him.

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What’s so good about it? I was impressed with this high praise from Cinematic Reel’s David Gonzalez:

“Not since the likes of Zodiac and The Silence of the Lambs has a serial killer entry disturbed me the way Oz Perkins’ Longlegs did. It’s a psychologically relentless descent into the macabre that’s sure to crawl its way under your skin and never leave.”

I think my favorite piece of trivia about director Oz Perkins is that he played a character named “Dorky David” in Legally Blonde in 2001. But since then he’s directed a couple horror movies, but none that blew up the way we’re seeing here.

There were some early reactions to the movie in surprise screenings, and this one’s probably my favorite:

"No lie. Longlegs was so insane that a woman behind us started crying halfway thru lmao 10/10 movie."

For reference, here are some of the highest rated horror movies of last year, 2023, where none hit a full 100%:

• When Evil Lurks – 97%
• Huesera: The Bone Woman – 97%
• Attachment – 95%
• Talk to Me – 95%
• M3GAN – 93%
• Influencer – 92%

So, if you liked any of those, and this is scoring better, well, get ready. And these comparisons to Blair Witch, Silence of the Lambs and Zodiac are something else, as it’s not just a few people saying that, but many. I cannot wait. The movie is out July 12 in select theaters.

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The Secret Service is investigating how a man who shot and injured Trump was able to get so close

The FBI is investigating Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania as an attempted assassination and act of domestic terror. However authorities say, a motive has not yet been identified.

Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, days before he was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time. The FBI said during a press conference late Saturday that they were not prepared to release the identity of the shooter and had not yet identified a motive for the assassination attempt.

Former Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy was shot on the day there was an attempt to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan. As he watched the shooting at the Trump rally unfold on Saturday he noticed similar failures in the attempts to protect the president.

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Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a gunman armed with an AR-style rifle was able to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Donald Trump at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, in a devastating failure of one of the agency’s core duties.

The FBI on Sunday identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

The gunman, who officials said was killed by Secret Service personnel, fired multiple shots at the stage from an “elevated position outside of the rally venue,” the agency said.

An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos taken at the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows Crooks’ body lying motionless on the roof of a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show grounds, where Trump’s rally was held. A different image shows Crooks wearing a gray T-shirt with a black American flag on the right arm, with a bloody wound to his head.

The roof was fewer than 150 meters (164 yards) from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target. For reference, 150 meters is a distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M16 assault rifle in basic training. The AR-style rifle, like that of the gunman at the Trump rally, is the semiautomatic civilian version of the military M16.

President Joe Biden said Sunday he has directed an independent review of the security at the rally.

Biden said he also directed the U.S. Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday in Milwaukee. Audrey Gibson-Cicchino, the Secret Service’s coordinator for the convention, told reporters later the agency was satisfied with what she called its comprehensive planning for the Republican convention.

Biden urged Americans not to make assumptions about the motive of the shooter. He said investigators are working swiftly to investigate the attack.

“Unity is the most elusive goal of all,” he said, but “nothing is more important than that right now.”

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• Key question : Officials are demanding to know how an armed man was able to get to the top of a building and shoot the former president .
• A “man of conviction” : Victim Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief, used his body to shield his family from gunfire.

Calls for an investigation came from all sides.

Rep. Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday raising questions about the shooting and demanding information about the former president’s Secret Service protection.

“The seriousness of this security failure and chilling moment in our nation’s history cannot be understated,” Green wrote.

The Secret Service did not have a speaker at a news conference Saturday night where FBI and Pennsylvania State Police officials briefed reporters on the shooting investigation. FBI Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek said it was “surprising” that the gunman was able to fire at the stage before he was killed.

Members of the Secret Service’s counter-sniper team and counterassault team were at the rally, according to two law enforcement officials. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss details of the investigation.

The heavily armed counterassault team, whose Secret Service code name is “Hawkeye,” is responsible for eliminating threats so that other agents can shield and take away the person they are protecting. The counter-sniper team, known by the code name “Hercules,” uses long-range binoculars and is equipped with sniper rifles to deal with long-range threats.

Mayorkas said his department and the Secret Service are working with law enforcement to investigate the shooting. Maintaining the security of presidential candidates and their campaign events is one of the department’s “most vital priorities,” he said.

“We condemn this violence in the strongest possible terms and commend the Secret Service for their swift action today,” Mayorkas said. “We are engaged with President Biden, former President Trump and their campaigns, and are taking every possible measure to ensure their safety and security.“

Green also noted reports that the Secret Service had rebuffed requests from the Trump campaign for additional security. A spokesman for the Secret Service, Anthony Guglielmi, said on X Sunday that those allegations were “absolutely false” and that they had added resources and technology as the campaign’s travel increased.

Police snipers return fire after shots were fired while Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Green said he would be talking with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Sunday.

Former top Secret Service agents told The AP that Crooks should never have been allowed to gain access to the roof, and the agency will have to figure out how that happened. They said such a lapse could have been caused by officers neglecting their posts or a flaw in the event’s security plan.

The agency is “going to have to go through the security plan and interview a number of people from the director on down” to figure out what went wrong, said Stephen Colo, who retired in 2003 as an assistant director after a 27-year career in the service.

Colo said presidential candidates and former presidents don’t typically get the same level of protection as the sitting president. In fact, Colo said he was surprised that the agency had staffed the event with a counter-sniper team. Such a valuable resource — there are not many of those highly trained agents — is usually reserved for the president. Candidates don’t usually get such teams.

Timothy McCarthy, a former agent who retired from the agency in 1994, said the Secret Service “better be doing a deep dive into what happened there and doing whatever it takes to figure it out” because the gunman should not have been able to occupy such a vantage point.

“How did that person get up on that building?” said McCarthy, 75, who in 1981 took a bullet when President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. “How did that happen? I mean, that’s the key to the entire thing. And what measures were put in place to prevent it?”

James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who is the House Oversight Committee chairman, said he contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and called on Cheatle to appear for a hearing. Comer said his committee will send a formal invitation soon.

“Political violence in all forms is un-American and unacceptable. There are many questions and Americans demand answers,” Comer said in a statement.

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a New York Democrat, called for investigating “security failures” at the rally.

“The federal government must constantly learn from security failures in order to avoid repeating them, especially when those failures have implications for the nation,” Torres said.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, posted on X that he and his staff are in contact with security planning coordinators ahead of the Republican National Convention set to begin Monday in Milwaukee. “We cannot be a country that accepts political violence of any kind — that is not who we are as Americans,” Evers said.

The FBI said it will lead the investigation into the shooting, working with the Secret Service and local and state law enforcement.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department “will bring every available resource to bear to this investigation.”

“My heart is with the former President, those injured, and the family of the spectator killed in this horrific attack,” Garland said in a statement. “We will not tolerate violence of any kind, and violence like this is an attack on our democracy.”

Associated Press writers Del Quentin Wilber, Colleen Long and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.

Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Episode 2 Review: Mystery and Action Leap Into High Gear

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The following contains spoilers for Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Episode 2, "The Sea of Dragons," now streaming on Crunchyroll.

Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest is one of the most exciting returning anime in the Summer 2024 season , pushing the Fairy Tail franchise into a new era. The old conflicts are resolved, giving Team Natsu a fresh start with their most challenging quest yet: to seal away the five Dragon Gods. As of Episode 2, "The Sea of Dragons," that quest is off to a strong start -- but many mysteries and adventures still lay ahead.

Episode 2 does what it intends to do: give the 100 Years Quest an explosive start, while also keeping fans intrigued by the mystery of Touka, one of the new characters featured in this anime. Episode 2 picks up plotlines where Episode 1 left off and handles them well. The episode is only slightly held back by mediocre worldbuilding and the gratuitous fan service that the Fairy Tail franchise is notorious for.

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To its credit, the Fairy Tail franchise tends to give new characters a powerful first impression so fans can enjoy meeting a colorful wizard with eye-catching magic and a vivid personality -- such as the wizards of the Sabertooth wizarding guild, and certainly the likes of Laxus Dreyar and Gajeel Redfox. The Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest anime is living up those expectations with Touka, the most recent hire in the Fairy Tail guild in Magnolia. So far, Touka hasn't been seen using magic and hasn't even explained her backstory, but that's actually the point. Touka is a mysterious character, and for a straightforward battle shonen anime like this, the mystery is handled well. Touka is outwardly charming, but there's something a little off about her, and more characters are starting to realize that.

Touka may enjoy the perks of joining the Fairy Tail guild , but Gajeel and Panther Lily are already suspicious -- and most importantly, so is Jellal Fernandez. Given Jellal's existing role in the Fairy Tail universe as a hunter of dark wizards and a generally smart fellow, he's the exact right character to add to this subplot, which works to Episode 2's benefit. When Jellal visits the now-friendly Sabertooth guild with questions about Touka, fans can feel the tension building, and it's clear that something is very wrong. If powerhouses like Minerva Orland and the duo Sting and Rogue are being questioned, then Jellal is clearly not playing games. He's sure to get to the bottom of this, and Episode 2 gets fans pumped to see how.

The Touka subplot smartly throws anime fans another bone with the sudden appearance of Touka's cat-like tail. A few Fairy Tail wizards see it and question it, but then Touka hides it, and there isn't a general fuss about it. There are a few possibilities here, such as Touka secretly being an Exceed from the pseudo-isekai land of Edolas , or maybe she can use animal transformation magic like Lisanna Strauss does. Anything's possible, which makes Touka's tail slip that much more fun to watch.

Ermina Sends Team Natsu Into a Mediocre Underwater Adventure

Not all of episode 2 is worth the watch.

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Like its shonen cousins One Piece and Naruto , the Fairy Tail franchise indulges in fantasy-style world-building to provide some visual flair, but in this anime's case, it's mostly just a superficial novelty -- and that remains true in Episode 2. World-building twists are entertaining, but they are largely forgettable and have little thematic or lore depth to them. When the coastal town Ermina suddenly floods and is populated by intelligent fish, it's a charming twist, but it probably won't mean much to the world as a whole. It's just a way to reinforce the fact that Sujin the Water Dragon God is the local lord, and this is his domain.

"The Sea of Dragons" has Team Natsu finding itself underwater, with all the townsfolk showing their true fish selves. Trouble arises when Natsu and the others reveal their goal, and Kashima and the other fish won't allow the team to harm their beloved local lord. It's a servicable plot twist to keep the conflict going, but it feels like a placeholder because Team Natsu has a far greater threat to deal with. Once they find a young woman held captive in a cage as an offering for the Water Dragon God, they meet their actual enemy -- something far more alarming than any flooding town.

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The anime introduces a powerful new adversary.

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Team Natsu discovers the captive woman is far from helpless -- which is one of Episode 2's best plot twists. The flooding town was just for fun, and the battle against Kiria is the heart of the episode. It's fairly obvious that Kiria is holding something back while attacking Team Natsu, so her fight against Fairy Tail 's heroes isn't quite as compelling as it could be. But Kiria's reckless aggression and blade-based fighting style is sufficient to get the action started in the anime, and there is promise that she and her ally Madmole will be even more impressive and dangerous in the future.

Episode 2 deepens the lore of Dragon Slayers -- which is a neat development that makes Kiria more than yet another antagonistic wizard. There are many powerful wizard guilds in Fairy Tail 's world , and now fans can add the Diabolos to the list. This isn't just another dark guild like Grimoire Heart or Oracion Seis, though -- Diabolos' members are fifth-generation Dragon Slayers, a new concept in the Fairy Tail franchise. In particular, they are Dragon Eaters, consuming dragon flesh to get stronger. That's a suitably brutal and high-stakes way to up the ante, giving Natsu a whole new kind of threat to deal with. He adores dragons, most of all Igneel, so of course he'd be outraged to see people like Kiria and Madmole hunt and devour dragons for their own benefit.

The encounter with Kiria and Madmole, and the episode as a whole, ends with a bang when the Water Dragon God himself appears -- an excellent cliffhanger. Fairy Tail and Diabolos are both after the Water Dragon God, but for totally different reasons, so Episode 2's ending sets the stage for a three-way battle. It's already evident what Diabolos plans to do with him, but the real question is what Fairy Tail will do. As Lucy points out in Episode 2, the mission to seal away the five Dragon Gods is ambiguous, since "seal" can mean a variety of things... from killing the dragons or imprisoning them to robbing them of their nature, sealing away their elements. It's anyone's guess whether a rowdy himbo like Natsu Dragneel can handle that delicate balance, but it's worth a try, and that open-ended question helps strengthen Episode 2 as a whole.

Episode 2 Pads Fairy Tail With Unneeded Fan Service

The sea of dragons suffers from this common flaw.

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Fairy Tail is known best for two things: its many powerful female characters and its overzealous fan service. But Erza Scarlet might strike a balance.

Any discussion about Fairy Tail 's content is bound to involve the subject of PG-13 fan service, which is back in full force in the Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest anime series. As a whole, anime seems to be slowly moving away from such things -- with examples such as Jujutsu Kaisen keeping its female heroes fully clothed while Mina Ashiro in Kaiju No. 8 is hardly seen outside of her combat uniform and dress blues. By contrast, the new Fairy Tail anime picks up where its fan service-loving forebear left off. It's silly and gratiuitous like always, and the best fans can say about it is that it's brief. Otherwise, it feels out of place in a 2024 anime series.

In Episode 2, it's no fuss for the five heroes to be seen in regular swimwear, with Natsu and Gray in swim trunks and Lucy, Erza, and Wendy appearing in two-piece bathing suits. That's just the characters being comfortable in their own skin, which is actually a little inspiring. The problem is when a character is disrobed and shows some serious skin when their clothes are destroyed or torn off by other parties. Lucy has every right to feel good about her beach bod, but it's ridiculous when the show finds contrived ways for her to get her outfits shredded, which she can't stand. Whether or not fan service crosses a line depends on what the character in question feels about it, and Lucy is definitely uncomfortable having her outfits torn off, whether fighting Kiria or having passing fish yank off her bikini top just because. That kind of tasteless fan service must stop ASAP.

Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Episode 2 Review: The Mystery and Action Shift Both Shift Into High Gear

While Jellal and Gajeel investigate the tailed Touka, Team Natsu has a sudden underwater adventure, complete with fish people, a hostile new guild, and the arrival of the Water Dragon God himself.

• Touka's mystery is even more compelling now.
• The concept of Dragon Eaters is a cool addition.
• The Water Dragon God's cliffhanger appearance is enticing.
• More gratuitous fan serivce.
• The worldbuilding is still weak.
• The villains hold back in the fight.

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The 100: Season 1 Reviews

The character complexities, special effects and attention to detail position "The 100" well on the CW food chain.

Full Review | Aug 6, 2019

The 100 is imaginative, surprising and fun - Lost for kids.

Full Review | Aug 5, 2019

What is surprising is that the series, an adaptation of the Kass Morgan novel, is well conceived, cleverly plotted, and quite exciting.

The 100's premise is so compelling that it makes the soap suds worth tolerating.

Full Review | Jul 2, 2018

If you're a thrill-lover, The 100 will keep you pressing "next episode."

Full Review | May 22, 2018

The 100 entertained.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2014

The series raises potentially interesting questions, and though the beginning of the episode may have been dragging because of informational purposes, towards the end I really did feel intrigued to find out what is hiding in the woods.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2014

There's a lot to like here, with things getting impressively dark and edgy in the episodes to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 21, 2014

The 100 has a lot of interesting things to play with in terms of its narrative and world-building, but it chooses to gloss over them.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2014

There's a reason why CW's new sci-fi drama is called The 100 - because it rips off about as many sources, from Lord of the Flies to The Hunger Games, for this messy young adult sci-fi stew.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Mar 21, 2014

The CW's promotional campaign for The 100 seems most interested in its pretty people and its two-faced deer, but in between all of that, Rothenberg and company are sneaking in a surprisingly sophisticated look at a world filled with want.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 21, 2014

It's more like another CW teen drama in different clothes with hot girls, bad boys, cliched talk and staged fights. That it's based on a series of books gives it more heft than most such CW dramas, but it's almost drowning in backstory.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2014

The visuals are strong, the characters are enjoyable enough, and there's a lot of mystery to engage with.

There are, to be sure, some suspenseful moments and effective sequences. (Homemade knives occasionally give it the air of a 1950s juvenile delinquent film.) There are luminous butterflies to marvel at and strange beasts to contend with.

After one episode, I'm sold. The tension felt authentic both in space on and on ground. There are two worlds unlike our own to explore and to be revealed.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 20, 2014

The CW's The 100 is the latest in a long line of Lost imitators, but it's also one of the better efforts.

At the very least, The 100 boasts a curious premise and I hope it finds an audience going forward.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 20, 2014

A high-concept guilty pleasure that comes as a bit of a creative relief after a dreary season of derivative spin-offs, reboots and retreads (reaching a nadir in Star-Crossed and The Tomorrow People).

Full Review | Mar 19, 2014

I'm still struggling to find a single character whose fate I'm even vaguely invested in, but my outright antipathy towards some of the characters ha[s] begun to fade.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2014

It has a sensibility and swagger that places the new series in good company. The 100 is better than it has to be, a little more exciting and surprising and intense. It's that margin that excites me about the show.

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Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

By Natasha Singer

Natasha Singer, who covers technology in schools, reported from Malvern, Pa. She welcomes reader tips at nytimes.com/tips .

In February, Patrice Motz, a veteran Spanish teacher at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pa., was warned by another teacher that trouble was brewing.

Some eighth graders at her public school had set up fake TikTok accounts impersonating teachers. Ms. Motz, who had never used TikTok, created an account.

She found a fake profile for @patrice.motz, which had posted a real photo of her at the beach with her husband and their young children. “Do you like to touch kids?” a text in Spanish over the family vacation photo asked. “Answer: Sí.”

In the days that followed, some 20 educators — about one quarter of the school’s faculty — discovered they were victims of fake teacher accounts rife with pedophilia innuendo, racist memes, homophobia and made-up sexual hookups among teachers. Hundreds of students soon viewed, followed or commented on the fraudulent accounts.

In the aftermath, the school district briefly suspended several students, teachers said. The principal during one lunch period chastised the eighth-grade class for its behavior.

The biggest fallout has been for teachers like Ms. Motz, who said she felt “kicked in the stomach” that students would so casually savage teachers’ families. The online harassment has left some teachers worried that social media platforms are helping to stunt the growth of empathy in students. Some teachers are now hesitant to call out pupils who act up in class. Others said it had been challenging to keep teaching.

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