TV Shows Like The 100
If you like The 100, here are 11 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: Dead City
Also sci-fi & fantasy · shares the post-apocalyptic future theme
Stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel
Likely Renewed82%
2. The Man in the High Castle
Also sci-fi & fantasy · shares the based on novel or book theme
Stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix Standard with Ads, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Ended0%
3. 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%
4. The Expanse
Also sci-fi & fantasy · shares the based on novel or book theme
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Ended0%
5. 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.
Stream on Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Paramount+ Amazon Channel
Cancelled0%
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: Dead City is the most popular show similar to The 100 in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like The 100 still on the air?
- Of the 11 shows similar to The 100 listed here, 1 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.