THE 100: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (R16)

Starring Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco, Thomas McDonell. Series: ✪✪✪✪ Extras: ✪✪✪

This sci-fi series was lost in offpeak space on TV2 but is better than its scheduling and teenage trappings suggest. It’s set years after nuclear war has annihilated most of the human race, the only survivors being those on a giant space station. When its life support systems start to break down, they send 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to see if it can be inhabited again. The first few episodes are cringingly adolescent but mid-season the series finds its focus, combining a space station conspiracy with the wilderness adventures of a nascent civilisation under siege from post-apocalypse threats. As well as an audio commentary on the season finale, there’s a behind-the-scenes half-hour and a 2013 Comic-Con panel discussion. (Subtitled.)