TV Shows Like The 100
If you like The 100, here are 10 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
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The 100 works because it refuses to let its premise stay simple. Yes, it starts with a neat high-concept hook: a dying space station, a hundred teenage criminals, and a planet that might kill them all. But the show quickly becomes something messier and more interesting, a series about who gets to make decisions when survival is on the line, what societies do to people they deem expendable, and how quickly moral lines blur when the stakes are life and death. The young cast is thrown into situations that adults on the ark spent a century avoiding, and the show earns a lot of its tension by taking those situations seriously.
The best shows like The 100
1. The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead is probably the closest show on this list to The 100 in tone and structure. Both are fundamentally about survivor communities trying to hold themselves together in a world that wants to kill them, and both are more interested in the violence people do to each other than in whatever monster or environmental threat frames the story. If you liked watching The 100's factions collide and collapse, this show gives you years of that.
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2. Black Mirror
Black Mirror doesn't share The 100's setting or its continuing characters, but it shares its willingness to follow a dark premise all the way to a dark conclusion. Each episode builds a world with a specific broken logic and then refuses to flinch at what that logic produces. Fans of The 100 who appreciated the show's harder turns will find a lot to sit with here.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Renewed100%
3. Silo
Silo is built on the same basic architecture as The 100: a sealed, controlled society where the people in charge know things the general population does not, and where one person's curiosity starts pulling the whole structure apart. The pacing is slower and the scale is smaller, but the sense of dread and the pleasure of watching the truth come out piece by piece are very much in the same spirit.
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4. Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery is a tonal shift from The 100, more hopeful and more openly idealistic, but it shares a genuine interest in what it means to belong to something and what you owe to the group you represent. Fans of The 100 who connected with its space-set chapters and its questions about identity and self-understanding will find enough here to hold their attention.
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5. Fallout
Fallout shares The 100's core setup almost beat for beat: people who have been sheltered from a ruined world are forced out into it and discover that the reality outside is far more complicated than what they were told. It carries a more satirical edge and a stranger visual style, but the post-apocalyptic politics and the sharp commentary on who controls resources and information will feel very familiar.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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More on shows like The 100
Fans of The 100 tend to be drawn to a specific combination: post-apocalyptic settings with genuine stakes, characters who operate in moral grey zones rather than clean hero-villain splits, and a willingness to destroy the status quo every few episodes. They want worlds that feel broken in specific, thought-out ways, not just aesthetically ruined. They are also, generally, fine with a show that gets bleak. The 100 never had much interest in reassuring its audience, and its fans tend to want their next show to share that quality.
The recommendations here cover a lot of ground but share those core qualities. The Walking Dead is the most direct neighbor, another post-apocalyptic survival drama built around the question of what human communities become under pressure. Silo offers the same claustrophobic tension, the same sense of a society built on secrets and control, just pointed downward into the earth instead of upward into orbit. Fallout takes the nuclear-wasteland premise in a more stylized direction but doesn't soften the violence or the politics. Black Mirror is the outlier structurally, an anthology with no continuing characters, but episode by episode it presses on the same anxieties about power, technology, and human nature. Star Trek: Discovery is the lightest tonal departure, more optimistic in its DNA, but it shares The 100's interest in identity, belonging, and what it costs to represent something larger than yourself.
None of these are perfect matches, and that's fine. If you want exactly The 100 again, you already have it. What this list offers instead are shows that understand the same kinds of questions: what holds a society together, what tears people apart, and what people do when the old rules stop applying.
More shows like The 100
Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like The 100?
- The Walking Dead is the most popular show similar to The 100 in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like The 100 still on the air?
- Of the 10 shows similar to The 100 listed here, 2 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like The 100?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.