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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 — “Bodyguard of Lies” — Image: HU214B_0090 — Pictured (L-R): Eliza Taylor as Clarke and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Lexa — Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW — © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved
The 100 — “Bodyguard of Lies” — Image: HU214B_0090 — Pictured (L-R): Eliza Taylor as Clarke and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Lexa — Photo: Cate Cameron/The CW — © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved /

Season 2

If there’s one thing most fans of The 100 agree on, it’s that the show’s second season is a standout in terms of everything from plot to performance. Watching the delinquents fight to get their friends out of Mount Weather while attempting — with little success — to ease tensions between themselves and the Grounders made for episodes wrought with emotion and suspense.

The second season is the first time fans truly come to understand how far The 100 is willing to go, and Clarke’s mercy killing of Finn remains one of the most iconic moments of the series. Likewise, Bellamy and Clarke’s “together” moment before committing genocide to save their own people proved that The 100  wasn’t interested in black and white storylines, or painting its characters as heroes. For anyone who enjoys shows where “there are no good guys,” this was the moment they knew they’d be watching The 100 for some time.

Clarke’s relationship with Lexa is also one of the highlights of season two, even if it does end in a shocking betrayal one episode before the finale. The 100‘s second season made history by pronouncing its main character the first bisexual lead on one of the “Big Five” networks in the U.S., and there’s no doubt that Lexa rapidly became an iconic and beloved character even outside of her relationship with Clarke. Both of them got to shine individually during season two and ask questions about power that were all too relevant to the real world.

Season two captures the heart of The 100 without all the problematic moments and plot holes that many of the other seasons have, and that’s why it’s often lauded as the number one installment of the series. That’s definitely why it finds itself in our number one spot.

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Which season of The 100 did you think was the strongest? The weakest? Let us know in the comments below!

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