8. The 100
Oh, The 100. What a tumultuous year that we have shared together as show and fans. From the poor decision to kill off a prominent lesbian character in a very “bury your gays” trope manner only to follow it up with killing off a prominent character who was also a person of color to sticking its white characters in “white savior” roles while delegating the rest to season baddies (a few exceptions of course), it seemed that the show was inches from going off the rails. Iit really is all due to the season finale that the entire season didn’t seem like a waste. Exciting, thrilling, allowing the female characters to shine and bringing the LGBTQ relationship to the focus in a moment of glory was everything the show set out to be but without the tone deaf nature of the first half of the season. While it doesn’t reach the heights of season two, it at the very least leaves us on a very promising note of where the show will go next. – Allyson Johnson
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