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The 100: Every season of The CW’s sci-fi series, ranked

By Amanda Mullen

The 100 -- "Sanctum" -- Image Number: HUN601b_0157r.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Jordan Bolger as Shaw, Sachin Sahel as Jackson, Tasya Teles as Echo, Bob Morley as Bellamy, Eliza Taylor as Clarke and Jarod Joseph as Miller -- Photo: Diyah Pera/The CW -- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
The 100 -- "Sanctum" -- Image Number: HUN601b_0157r.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Jordan Bolger as Shaw, Sachin Sahel as Jackson, Tasya Teles as Echo, Bob Morley as Bellamy, Eliza Taylor as Clarke and Jarod Joseph as Miller -- Photo: Diyah Pera/The CW -- © 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /
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The 100 — “Praimfaya” — Image HU413a_0354 — Pictured (L-R): Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia and Adina Porter as Indra — Credit: Diyah Pera/The CW — © 2017 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
The 100 — “Praimfaya” — Image HU413a_0354 — Pictured (L-R): Marie Avgeropoulos as Octavia and Adina Porter as Indra — Credit: Diyah Pera/The CW — © 2017 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved /

Season 4

The 100′s fourth season shows the series getting back to its roots, and one of its strengths is that we finally see Clarke and Bellamy interacting as much as they did in season one. These two have always been the heart of the series, and their separation during most of the seasons is something fans have lamented time and time again.

Season four also stands out — in a good way — because it shows humanity contending with a new enemy. While the majority of The 100‘s storylines focus on the tribalism of “your people” vs. “my people,” the fourth season’s primary obstacle is the human race surviving the second apocalypse. And although there’s still plenty of tribalism to be found, it’s a refreshing change of pace to have a new “villain” to contend with — one that’s not human and can’t be bargained with.

Even the political aspects of this season, though, which do show humans fighting with one another over who gets to survive the apocalypse, raise some fascinating questions about what humanity should do when the end of the world is approaching. (Octavia’s triumph and choice to share the bunker following the conclave also makes a hopeful statement about humanity, one that definitely hits harder than season seven’s transcendence.)

And speaking of, the ending of season four is heart-wrenching and could easily have topped off the series had the show went through with killing Clarke. The final episode sees Bellamy, Raven, Murphy, Emori, Harper, Monty, and Echo fleeing to space to avoid Praimfaya — and Clarke staying behind to get them there. Both Clarke’s choice to sacrifice herself and Bellamy’s decision to let her are among the most powerful moments of the series. And even if we’re glad Clarke survived, we can’t necessarily say it was for the better after everything else we’ve seen.

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