What Season is your favorite?

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Anyway, you can't please everyone, but it got me thinking which Season might be a favorite. If you had to pick, which would you choose?

And side note... if you think the show jumped the Shark, when and where was that for you? I know asking this on the forum may be odd considering most people who love it are here, but it's worth asking.

It's weird, but I my favorite season is 3, which is also the one where I find some moments are a bit stretching the suspension of disbelief. No jumping sharks, mind you, just a bit difficult to accept.
I love season 3 for one reason: progress and stability. The first two seasons have the Towerites always struggling to survive and with little time to do anything else. What few investigative missions they undertake end up badly (Purgatory) and mostly it's a tale of survival. On season 3 we finally have at least part of the group in a reasonably safe environment and the attention of the characters shifts from "What are we gonna eat tomorrow, where do we find water" to "How are we going to defeat these things" (Michael and Tanya) and "Where is Lizzy and how do we get her back" (Saul and Vic). So it's good to shift focus between seasons and there is progress and investigation. There's also a lot of action, and some of the best sequences in the assault on the colony, and chapter 36 (season finale) is just the best episode ever in my opinion.

The problems I have with this season is that the characters always were faced with almost impossible difficulties, but there was a reasonable way of facing the issues. What I mean is that I accept easily that you need higher caliber for behemots and little ones. I don't accept as easily that on top of that they can cut open tanks with their nails. Or that Scratch with a 20 cm blade somehow gets around a 1mt blade, or that Saul misses her in a corridor, or I lost count how many times they shoot Ink and then "Damn! He moved!". Probably that's why I love that the season ends with them winning a battle, for once. the last 3/4 chapters is just the survivors trying to do something, anything and the dungeon master going "Nope, you fail"without even rolling the dice. The final moments of chapter 36 are really a relief.