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- The CW
- Sep 10, 2009
- The CW
- Sep 10, 2009
- The CW
- Sep 10, 2009
- The CW
- Sep 10, 2009
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8 Seasons
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
50
32% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
32% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
50
32% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
32% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
These killers are more fun than a cemetery full of psycho zombie killers on Halloween.
What women really want was never more simply put than in the CW's compelling Vampire Diaries.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 443 User Ratings
7.9
79% Positive
348 Ratings
348 Ratings
12% Mixed
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
10% Negative
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 443 User Ratings
7.9
79% Positive
348 Ratings
348 Ratings
12% Mixed
52 Ratings
52 Ratings
10% Negative
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
When Elena wakes up she sould get back together with Stefan.!!! But I think that the vampire diaries is amazing, awesome, I love it so much. Can't wait to see Elena wake up!!
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SEASON 1
As teen shows go, the pilot is entertaining enough; future episodes will reveal if the show truly has much bite.
No, it's not Twilight--but it's not bad, either. The Vampire Diaries, The CW's new fang-gang drama, successfully hitches the sanguinary sexuality of the vampire ethos to the in-group/out-group dynamic of the teen soap.
Damon ("Lost's" Ian Somerhalder) complains. "Remember, Stefan--it's important to stay away from fads." If only the CW would listen.
I expected more sparky wordplay from a Williamson show, but the Vampire Diaries pilot is pretty limp and lifeless in that department. The attractive cast is... attractive. Let's be kind and say that they are not all blessed with the same level of competence in the acting department.
You will want all the extras who played vamps on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (which was great, by the way, and not to be blamed for this lackluster cousin) to return en masse to eat the cast of "Vampire Diaries," plus any remaining scripts.
Loving this season, even without Elena, and possibly even more with her departure given how the remaining characters have to now face themselves and one another. It's become more unpredictable & emotionally complex. Movie quality production levels and Freudian mind-benders make for a suspenseful & gripping vamp drama, grown out of what used to be a more popcorn teen-vamp drama. Yes, there's plenty of guilty pleasure eye candy to behold which we love, but it was time to grow and I'm glad to see the writers, directors, actors...whole TVD team taking it to the next level! And loving the interplay with The Originals too!
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SEASON 1
i thought this was my favourite show but I was wrong.
Stefan and Elena were destined to be together , at least thats what the writers tried to pass through the first few seasons but then when the fans started to ship damon & elena julie plec started acting like delena was the " initial plan " .
Personally what annoyed me the most is the fact that the writers tried sooo hard to change the script in order to make it seem like Damon met Eelena first and that they were meant to be together. Damon literally killed Elena's brother, Stefan's BEST friend Lexi , **** Caroline and killed Elena's ex . BUT he was the one that got the happy ending lol . Stefan sacrificed his own life for Elena ,the person that he loved the most, and his beloved brother .
anyways the ships were really **** up and at the end of the day the script writers had the most toxic relationship ever to be endgame.
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SEASON 1
I would've given the show a 9, but the vocal music they used was too annoying. The show is not teeny bop, but the music is. The show has lots of controversial, mature, adult themes filled with morale quagmires that are highly entertaining. Keep in mind, the characters start out innocent in high school, but the show slowly goes to dark places. It feels like you're truly experiencing a visual re-enactment about the life of a vampire from their diary in all it's evil controversy.
Once again, it's not a teeny bop show. The only teen bop misconception is the horrible vocals of the music they use. Imagine you're in a theater watching a play with brilliant actors and then all of a sudden the dude behind your seat starts playing guitar and singing out loud about his girlfriend with an annoying voice that constantly cracks as if his balls are cut off. I'd turn around and tell the dude to ****!! Sadly, the show is plagued with annoying vocal music that actually ruins the scenes. The actors are very talented and know how to move the audience emotionally, but the vocals of the music they use are awful. I wish there was a way to turn off the vocals of all the music they play during the scenes. You know what's funny though? During the intense scenes where it's very emotional , they don't play annoying vocal music. It should've been that way through out the whole show. Try it. Watch the show and compare the emotional scenes with vocal music to the intense scenes without vocal music. You'll find that the scenes without vocal music are much better. You can focus all your attention on the emotion of the actors. Instrumental music is fine because it remains background music, but a singers voice always intrudes into the foreground and competes with the foreground vocal talking of the actors. Playing emo teeny bop music over a scene actually breaks immersion. The vocals of the music they use actually brought me out of the intense scene. I often would find myself laughing inappropriately during scenes because the vocal singing of the music was so out of place, lol. You want to focus on the emotions of the actors, not the emotions of the singer of the music. Hopefully producers figure this out one day.
Unfortunately in season 7 & 8, they went too far with the diversity & inclusion, aka tokenism on steroids. This resulted in some poorly written characters and obvious casting of under qualified actors.
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SEASON 1
I think that L.J Smith's books are so much better than the TV Show. The characters from the books like Stefan or Damon are much more intringing, mysterious and charismatic than the TV Show ones. I will never like the TV Show as much as the books. I love Damon from the books, he has much more sex appeal and mystery than Ian Somerhalder's overacted Damon, and he doesn't kill so much people!
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SEASON 1
