The 100 - Season 2

Title: The 100

Season: 2

Broadcasting Station: The CW

Official Synopsis: Season Two kicks off with Clarke and her friends trapped inside Mount Weather, a nuclear-hardened underground city where no one is safe, especially The 100. When Clarke escapes alone, it sets off a chain of events for our trapped heroes, the adults on the ground and even the Grounders. Alliances will be made, friendships will be broken and justice will be served. With everyone fighting for their right to survive, our heroes will have to ask themselves a very important question: How far will you go to save the people you love? Many will fight, some will die, all will be changed forever in 16 earth-shattering, action-packed episodes.

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I came to this season with high expectations. The first season of The 100 was amazing, immediately turning the series into one of my favorites ever. I was afraid that this second season would drop the ball, that it would be able to maintain its intensity, suspense and wonder. I’m happy to say it didn’t.

What is most amazing about The 100, as a series, and that it’s perfectly exemplified in this second season, is the ease with which it portrays raw human nature. They reduce every character to their most basic instinct: survival. It is a series about war, after all. Everyone is trying to save themselves and their people. And for that, they are willing to make tough decisions; they will do whatever it takes. To the point where they all become warriors, and the only thing they know is survival.

I can’t believe that the characters I disliked the most in the first season are now very likable. Octavia is now one of my favorite characters. She has shown uncanny strength. In a surprise twist she became a kick-ass Grounder warrior, leaving the whiny, capricious girl behind. Clarke is still not my favorite, but she behaved better this time around. Her choices were the perfect balance between heart and mind. And, even though not everything went according to her plans, I don’t believe it was her fault. 

There was only one storyline that I didn’t enjoy. When Finn killed many Grounder innocents, old people and kids, he was sentenced to be tortured until he died. For a while Clarke and her gang tried to save him from his fate, endangering the new alliance with the Grounders. In this kill-or-be-killed world they now live in, Finn deserved to die. I know they love him or whatever, but seeing Clarke trying to save him was exasperating. However, the storyline had an acceptable resolution and I overlooked the less appealing parts.

The ending of the war against the mountain people was beautiful and fitting. It was tough and heartbreaking, but hopeful. It seems like a closed chapter that might be revisited at will, but that could be left unattended for a while. The season’s ending gave us a taste of what’s to come and it seems the series is going to take a new turn; it’s going to focus on a different story. Yet, apparently, the war is not over. What I’m hoping for is a different setting, but the same core human struggles.