There’s no keeping these Sky-Teens-turned-Young-Adults down. We’ve got everything you need to know about The 100 season 6 right here.
The 100 season 6 air date
It’s official! The 100 season 6 will arrive on 30th April on The CW in the US. A UK air date is still unconfirmed.
The 100 season 6 story
At the end of last season, Monty and Harper made the ultimate sacrifice and left their friends (and all of us) with some big surprises: their passing, their son, and a new planet.
There’s still so little that can be revealed about the upcoming season without spoiling anything, but we know that the planet is inhabited by a peaceful society, and that Monty and Harper wanted Bellamy and Clarke to raise their son Jordan. Monty and Harper also wanted humanity as a whole to try to be the good guys this time around, and viewed this planet as a fresh start. We’ll see how long that lasts, since everyone is still bringing plenty of baggage with them, like the fallout from Blodreina and the war for Eden.
How many more seasons can we expect from The 100? Speaking at the Winter Television Critics Association press tour earlier this year, CW prez Mark Pedowitz said of the post-apocalyptic drama: “[Showrunner Jason Rothenberg] may have a six or seven-year plan to it. I don’t know if I’m allowed to even say that, that he has a plan beyond year five, but he does.”
If there is a six-year plan, this could be the last for The 100. Or, it could be just another, gruesome step on the journey of this group of crazy kids just trying to hold onto their humanity.
Rothenberg told Nerdist last year:
I had this idea for how I wanted the show to end. But it was scalable and that ending could have been at the end of season three, it could be at the end of season five, it could be at the end of season eight. Those decisions are not really mine. I don’t think that this is a show that runs for 10 seasons. But I love these characters and this world so much that it’s fresh for me every year. We tell a different story every year so we don’t get bored with it. I still have an end story in mind, but I don’t know when that end is going to be and I feel very, very confident that I’ll get to tell it eventually.
The 100 season 6 cast
Though nothing official has been announced, presumably, the main crew will be back for The 100 season 6: Eliza Taylor as Clarke, Bob Morley as Bellamy, Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia, Lindsey Morgan as Raven, Paige Truco as Abby, Adina Porter as Indra, Tasya Teles as Echo, and Lola Flanery as Madi.
Monty and Harper died of old age in the season 5 finale, and Larkin and Reist said some emotional goodbyes over social media at the time, so presumably Christopher Larkin and Chelsey Reist won’t be back, aside from a potential flashback guest or recurring appearance.
Notably, Henry Ian Cusick (Kane) has been cast as a series regular on The Passage, though Cusick did say he would be back in some capacity for The 100 season 6 at this summer’s TCA press tour.
“I’m going to be on season 6 of The 100,” said Cusick (via TVLine). “Who knows how long The 100 is going to go, how long this show is going to go? … At the moment, I’m just in a very fortunate position that I’m on both, and we’ll see how it goes.”
Shannon Kook was cast as Jordan Green, aka the adult son of Monty and Harper, for the season 5 finale. He is expected to return for season 6.
J.R. Bourne (Teen Wolf) is joining the cast in a recurring role as Russell, the “charismatic leader” of a “peaceful society” inhabiting the planet that Monty and and Harper found for their friends. Apparently Russell will have a “complicated relationship” with Clarke, which makes sense considering he’s being descibed as, “a visionary and pioneer who will face the difficult moral choices emblematic of the hard-hitting show.”