Everyone talks about those hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Those small secrets that are tucked in miniscule corners or just out of sight, just far enough away that you can’t see them. The only way one comes to know about them is by accident or through word of mouth. But the saying extends to more than just restaurants—anything can be hole-in-the-wall, even something as modern as television. So here’s me telling you about a show that should really be on your radar: The 100.

Pronounced “The Hundred,” this show is easily one of the best I have seen my entire life. Period. Exclamation mark, exclamation mark, exclamation mark. It may not sound like much—the name really isn’t all that catchy—but all it takes is five minutes watching and you’ll be hooked. The premise is this: humanity blew themselves up with nukes. Some countries got smart and sent their best and brightest away to safety so they could survive when the rest of humanity is dead. Not very original when put this way, I admit, but it gets better.

The survivors live alone and isolated on a conglomeration of satellites and space stations orbiting Earth, which they collectively refer to as “The Ark,” for 97 years. Life is harsh for many, comfortable for some, and unpredictable for all. Food is rationed and air is recycled. Because they have so little, their tolerance is nonexistent. Those that break the law are sentenced to a quick and brutal death by “floating.” Simply put, they’ll stick the lawbreaker alone inside of an airlock and open the outer door, casting them out into space unprotected to boil, freeze, and suffocate all at once. Unless, of course, the criminal is under 18, in which case they’ll live until they reach adulthood locked away in jail cells in the far reaches of the Ark. After all, no one wants to kill a child. Until they have to.

After those 97 years of existence alone in space, their time runs out, as does their air. There are no reinforcements on their way, no new supplies to save them. And so the Chancellor of the Ark—their version of the President—and his council have to make an impossible decision: cull 300 innocent citizens or send the 100 young criminals—their children—locked in storage to a radioactive Earth. They know full well that the teenagers will in all likelihood die. But it would be worth it to see if the planet is survivable, and it will buy them more time to figure out a permanent solution. They choose the lesser of the two evils, and so the story begins. Their ship crash lands on earth, and the “delinquents” quickly find out that death would have been the easy way out.

The group is led by Clarke Griffin, the brave and brilliant daughter of a high ranking councilwoman and the Ark’s only doctor Abigail Griffin, and an ex-guard with a strong survival instinct and a very harsh temper, Bellamy Blake. These two are assisted by Blake’s younger sister Octavia, who was never supposed to be born; innocent nice-guy Finn Collins (who turns out to be just as innocent but not so nice in the end, but that’s a different story for you to be shocked by later); and finally, later on, the “youngest zero-g mechanic in 52 years” (and easily one of my favorite characters) Raven Reyes, the ragtag group of teens and children face the harsh realities of life on a post-apocalyptic, overrun earth and its inhabitants, the equally-harsh tribal Grounders (remnants of humanity who survived the nuclear blasts and the radiation that followed).

So, that’s the basics. If I told you any more, you’d know the whole plot line. So as much as it saddens me not mentioning some of my other, Grounder favorites, I will leave the summary at that, and give it a 7 out of 5 star rating. It’s just that good.

If you want to watch, turn your eyes towards Netflix (it’s a Netflix original after all, and Netflix is the only place you can find Season One) and binge, binge, binge! And then go online and hunt down Season Two. Pirate it if you have to—wait, what? I didn’t say that (do it, though), or buy it on Amazon or Itunes. Hulu will consistently have the last five episodes of the latest season if you’re still watching by then (which you probably will be). And remember, new episodes play on Wednesdays!