One-line summary: This show raises moral conflicts, however they are resolved incorrectly.
“The 100” is a science fiction TV series that is (also) available on Netflix. It’s the story of survival in a post nuclear apocalyptic world, 100 years after the apocalypse. It begins with survival of several thousand people on a satellite space station. After a 100 years on this station, they ran out of resources and must find a way to continue surviving. They calculated that if they kill around 300 people, then the rest of the people will have a chance to survive for a bit longer.
In the meantime, they decide to send 100 teenage convicts to Earth to check if the land is inhabitable. The convicts, upon arriving on Earth, decide that they want to fake their death to make those on the space station think that the Earth is still radioactive and uninhabitable.
Thus, there are two conflicts: (a) should the management of the space station kill 300 people? and (b) should the teenage convicts on the ground report that Earth is inhabitable if that means that they will be again convicted once the rest of people will land from the space station?
In this fashion of setting up moral conflicts, the show continues episode after episode.
The moral conflicts are resolved incorrectly, because they all are lifeboat scenarios. I wrote a review on IMDB forum, which I titled “Reality is Win-Win”:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2661044/board/thread/259081677
Note: some viewers have reported that the the first five episodes seemed slow, but I did not get this impression.
