

7.643 minSeason 7 • Episode 16
LatestAfter all the fighting and loss, Clarke and her friends have reached the final battle. But is humanity worthy of something greater?
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
Acting
Eliza Taylor's Clarke carries impossible choices with steel.
Writing
Seasons 1-4: prestige TV. Seasons 5-7: beautiful disaster.
Production
Vancouver forests somehow look more alien than actual space.
Creator
Jason Rothenberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show is LOOSELY based on Kass Morgan's YA novel; Rothenberg read it once and went 'what if trauma?'