The 100: Season 2 Review — ign.com

Note: Full spoilers for The 100: Season 2 follow. Overcoming most of its early growing pains pretty quickly, The 100 was a very strong show by the end of its first season. But Season 2 elevated the series into the upper echelon, as the show become one of the coolest and most daring series on TV these days. There were some excellent nuances at work here. Dante Wallace (Raymond J. Barry), presumably the season’s big villain initially, turned out to be pretty truthful when it came to his wish to work with and unite with those from the Ark – and to have great respect for and even a sense of kinship with Clarke. Yet he was also someone who was unapologetically doing horrible things to the Grounders, using their blood to help his people, while transforming many of them into the cannibalistic reapers. The fact that he simply saw the Grounders as “savages” and those from the Ark as people he could relate to made him a fascinating character, as you couldn’t really root for him, yet as the season progressed, he was the voice of reason inside Mount Weather – especially compared to his even more brutal, single-minded “us over anyone” son, Cage (Johnny Whitworth).

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