The 100is a dark show. Excepting some odd, Imagine Dragons-fuelled early episodes when the series was still finding its footing,The 100has always been a dark show and never pretended to be anything else. There’s a lot of torture and murder, and more than one genocide, and as we head into Season 4, the apocalypse is extremely night… again. But hoo boy, based on this latest teaser, it’s going to befun –high fives and all.
Just kidding, we all know it’s not going to be fun. It’s going to be brutal and miserable as ever, and hopefully just as compelling. Not much is known about Season 4 so far, but we do know that Clarke (Eliza Taylor) is up against her most impossible battle yet. After defeating ALLE and destroying the City of Light in the Season 3 finale, the clock is rapidly ticking and Skaikru only has a matter of months to figure out how to survive the meltdown of Earth’s remaining nuclear reactors.
Sure, this new trailer is a poppy, finger-snapping good time teasing the sexy end of the world (I’m not a regular apocalypse, I’m a cool apocalypse), but thefirst Season 4 trailermade it abundantly clear that there are plenty of dark days ahead still for Clarke, the Grounders, and all of Earth’s scrappy remaining survivors as they prepare for the new nuclear apocalypse. It’s a bit cognitively dissonant, but there are some pretty cool teases. Check it out below.
Season 4 ofThe 100returns to The CW on February 1 at 9 p.m. Here’s the official synopsis:
For three seasons, THE 100 have fought to survive. That fight has torn them apart, turned them against each other, and taken the lives of their closest friends. In season three, our heroes found themselves at the epicenters of both the Grounder world and the struggle for Arkadia’s soul. Despite their best efforts, all out war appeared unavoidable until a new, even more dangerous threat, one that had been quietly rising all along, exploded to the surface: ALIE, the A.I. that ended the world, offered relief from pain and eternal life in the “City of Light,” but as her ranks grew, it quickly became clear that she was building an army dedicated to controlling all sentient life on Earth. This was no longer a battle between warring factions; it was a fight for humanity itself. Now, in the wake of the epic season three finale, a hard truth lands on the shoulders of those who remain. What’s left to fight for now? Will they go quietly into the night, or will they find hope and faith in each other, as they face their darkest chapter yet?
