The vampire diaries tv show

2009 American supernatural immature drama television series

This article pump up about the television series. Put under somebody's nose the novel series, see The Vampire Diaries (novel series). Provision the unrelated film, see Vampire Diary. For the media enfranchisement, see The Vampire Diaries Universe.

The Vampire Diaries is an Earth supernaturalteen drama television series matured by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the textbook series of the same reputation written by L.

J. Economist. The series premiered on Decency CW on September 10, 2009, and concluded on March 10, 2017, having aired 171 episodes over eight seasons.

The initiatory episode attracted the largest company for The CW of brutish series premiere since the web launched in 2006;^[1] the rule season averaged 3.60 million viewers.^[2] Ready to react became the most-watched series defect the network before being surpassed by Arrow.

Position show has received numerous confer nominations, winning four People's Above Awards and many Teen Above Awards.

In April 2015, leading man or lady actress Nina Dobrev, who feigned Elena Gilbert, confirmed that she would be leaving the agricultural show after its sixth season. Dobrev returned to record a recital for the seventh-season finale deliver returned as a guest reception in the series finale.^[3] Notes March 2016, The CW budding the series for an 8th season,^[4] but in July past its best that year announced that primacy eighth season, consisting of 16 episodes, would be the show's last.^[5]

The concepts and characters formulated in the series served function launch a media franchise renounce includes other television series, network series, novels and comic books.

The television series The Originals (2013–2018) – which also aired on Honourableness CW – was the first major journal in this collection of contiguous works, followed by a byproduct of The Originals entitled Legacies (2018–2022), which aired on Picture CW as well.

Series overview

The series is set in description fictional town of Mystic Outpouring, Virginia, a town charged familiarize yourself supernatural history.

It follows depiction life of Elena Gilbert, expert teenage girl who has equitable lost both parents in splendid car crash, as she cascade in love with a 161-year-old vampire named Stefan Salvatore, who she thinks is just fastidious normal human. Their relationship becomes increasingly intricate as Stefan's eldritch older brother Damon Salvatore income to Mystic Falls with calligraphic plan to bring back their past love, Katherine Pierce, who is Elena's doppelgänger.

Although Friend initially holds a grudge bite the bullet his brother for forcing him to become a vampire, loosen up later reconciles with Stefan deed falls in love with Elena, creating a love triangle in the midst the three. Both brothers sweat to protect Elena as they face various villains and threats to their town, including Katherine.

The Salvatore brothers' pasts vital the town's history along copy its secrets are revealed purpose flashbacks as the series goes on.

Additional storylines revolve all over the other inhabitants of rectitude town, most notably Elena's from the past brother Jeremy Gilbert and kinswoman Jenna Sommers, her best followers Bonnie Bennett and Caroline Forbes, their mutual friends Matt Donovan and Tyler Lockwood, Matt's elder sister Vicki Donovan, and their history teacher and vampire tracker Alaric Saltzman.

The town's political science are orchestrated by the Founders' council, comprising descendants of authority founding families: the Fells, illustriousness Forbes', the Lockwoods, the Gilberts, and the Salvatores. They jelly the town mainly from vampires and other supernatural threats specified as werewolves, witches, hybrids (werewolf/vampire), and ghosts.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of The Scrounger Diaries characters

• Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert (season 1–6; guest course 8),^[6] a young orphan who falls in love with enthusiast Stefan Salvatore and later culminate brother, Damon, creating a passion triangle.

  When Stefan turns humanity off after being blackmailed by Klaus, Damon is problem the opportunity to grow course to Elena. This results predicament her being further drawn pierce the supernatural world and income in her struggling to stay fresh supernatural events in the metropolis. Elena becomes a vampire closest the events of the third-season finale, but takes the draft and becomes human again bit the sixth season.

  In excellence sixth-season finale, Elena's life was tied to Bonnie's in specified a way that as well along as Bonnie is alive, Elena will remain asleep.

  • Dobrev as well portrays Elena's doppelgänger, Katerina Petrova, also known as Katherine Stab. Dobrev sporadically appeared as Katherine in subsequent seasons, with Katherine playing a significant role infringe the second and fifth seasons.
  • Dobrev also plays the progenitor systematic the Petrova doppelgängers and Silas's true love, Amara, during position fifth season, whom he locked away sought in the afterlife yearn two thousand years.
• Paul Wesley importance Stefan Salvatore,^[7] a good-hearted cranium affectionate vampire and the responsible opposite of his older kinsman, Damon Salvatore.

  Later in righteousness series, Stefan reverts to crown old ways as a Cut to save Damon from exceptional werewolf bite. His role becomes more antagonistic, after being laboured to turn his humanity performance. Eventually, he returns to dominion good-hearted and caring self be proof against reconciles with Elena, but high-mindedness relationship doesn't last long.

  Filth becomes human again in significance final season and marries Carolingian in the eighth season nevertheless is killed afterwards in rank series finale as he sacrifices himself along with Katherine type save Mystic Falls.

  • Wesley as well portrays his revealed doppelgänger, Silas, the world's first immortal actuality, in the fourth and 5th seasons.
  • Wesley also played another doppelgänger, Tom Avery, during the 5th season.
• Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore,^[8] Stefan's malevolent elder vampire fellow-man.

  He is mostly thought work as selfish and manipulative, despise humans for his own add with no regard but succeeding on begins to display unadulterated more caring side. Throughout decency series, Damon is able manage repair his relationship with Stefan, and becomes best friends fretfulness Alaric and Bonnie. Though emperor love for Elena is originally one-sided, she begins to better feelings for him as they work together to save Stefan after he's given in take delivery of his Ripper side.

  They enter on dating in the fourth patch, after Elena transitions into top-hole vampire, and continue to control an on-and-off relationship until marvellous now-human Elena is put impact her deep sleep at greatness end of the sixth season.

• Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gi (seasons 1–6; guest season 8),^[9] Elena's younger brother, actually expanded to be her biological relative.

  He later becomes a shareholder of The Five, a cacodemon hunting group giving him eldritch strengths. Jeremy is killed regulate the fourth season after Katherine throws him onto Silas, who drains his blood. He recapitulate resurrected by Bonnie Bennett, potentate love interest, in the fourth-season finale. In the sixth term, he leaves Mystic Falls give a lift hunt vampires, unbeknownst to humankind other than Alaric.

  Jeremy profits to Mystic Falls in goodness final episode after Elena's damnation is broken, and begins method as a teacher at excellence Salvatore Boarding School for representation Young & Gifted that King and Caroline open.

• Sara Canning introduce Jenna Sommers (seasons 1–2; caller seasons 3, 5 & 8),^[10] Elena and Jeremy's aunt with the addition of legal guardian after the swallow up of their parents.

  Though she is young, she strives run into be a role model stop by Elena and Jeremy and see after them. She dates King after he moves to municipality in the middle of grandeur first season. Jenna was handle in season two during Klaus' hybrid ritual after being smelly into a vampire.

• Kat Graham significance Bonnie Bennett,^[11] Elena and Caroline's best friend and a set free powerful witch.

  She has properly numerous times but always arrive on the scene a way to return. She develops and controls her capabilities with the help of equal finish grandmother, Sheila or "Grams", added witch in the Bennett descendants. She is often able make ill use her magic to cooperate the group, and while she initially hates vampires, particularly Friend, she ends up warming come to light to them; she and Friend become best friends after seem to be stuck in a prison pretend with him for four months during season six.

  Bonnie has lost and regained her find fault with to do magic multiple epoch throughout the show. She drained the second through fifth seasons in an on-again, off-again arrogance with Elena's brother Jeremy extort later became involved with Enzo. In the seventh season, Sightly faces the challenge of acceptance received Rayna Cruz's hunters' adversity, which puts all her monster friends at risk.

  In class series finale, Bonnie breaks position sleeping spell on Elena survive leaves Mystic Falls to function the world.

• Candice King as Carolingian Forbes,^[12] Elena and Bonnie's gain the advantage over friend, who used to suit insecure and sometimes jealous waning Elena for the attention she received, often feeling second unsurpassed.

  After turning into a leech in the second season, she becomes more caring and kindhearted. Neurotic but lovable, Caroline has been the love interest competition many of the male noting. She initially serves as Damon's plaything in the first period, which she hates him joyfulness, but they later become firm. Afterwards, she has serious exchange with Matt, Tyler, Alaric, folk tale Stefan.

  She was long integrity subject of Klaus's adoration, whom she sleeps with in birth fifth season, too. Caroline gives birth to Alaric and Jo's twin daughters after becoming denoting with them through a reassure cast by the Gemini Coven and becomes their mother, in that Jo is killed in significance seventh season.

  She married Stefan shortly before his death welcome the eighth season and serviceable her relationship with Damon. Carolingian raises the twins with King, who she views as circlet own; she opens the Salvatore Boarding School for the In the springtime of li & Gifted with Alaric.

• Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan,^[13] Vicki's former brother and Elena's childhood chum and ex-boyfriend, who became romantically involved with Caroline in picture first and second seasons.

  Stale and Caroline remain good enterprise even after breaking up sooner than the second season. Matt wants no part in the uncanny events in his town survive is later at odds junk the vampires as he becomes a police officer and tries to protect the town stay away from them. He becomes the sheriff in the eighth season discipline plans to run for mayor.

• Kayla Ewell as Vicki Donovan (season 1; recurring seasons 3 & 8; guest seasons 2 & 5), Matt's drug-addicted older preserve.

  She appears to be dating Tyler but is also affectionate in Jeremy. She is from a to z insecure about herself, being slushy and an outsider. She equitable turned into a vampire by virtue of Damon and is killed wedge Stefan shortly after due separate her getting out of guardianship and attacking Elena. Following rank destruction of the Other Embankment, the supernatural limbo where she resided after her death, Vicki was sent to Hell.

• Michael Linksman as Tyler Lockwood (seasons 1–6; guest seasons 7–8),^[14] a loup-garou, later turned into a mongrel by Klaus, Matt's best companion and the son of prestige mayor of Mystic Falls.

  Ruler family carry a lycanthropic network, being descended from an old werewolf clan. His father, character mayor, had the gene nevertheless did not trigger the malediction. His uncle Mason was additionally a triggered werewolf, who was killed by Damon in blue blood the gentry second season. Tyler was foul into the first successful mixture by Klaus.

  In the fifth-season finale, he is returned make out just being a human. Powder reactivates his werewolf gene reprove leaves town at the reach of the sixth season. Bankruptcy appears in a couple ceremony episodes of the seventh term, protecting Elena's coffin.

• Matt Davis monkey Alaric Saltzman (seasons 1–3, 6–8; guest seasons 4–5),^[15] a characteristics teacher, vampire hunter and Jenna's love interest in the cap two seasons.

  Davis left high-mindedness show at the end be taken in by season three after Alaric was killed. His character returned by reason of a regular from the ordinal season onwards, after he was resurrected in the fifth season.^[16] His vampirism is stripped deactivate by magic, turning him smash into a human once again, funding being saved by Josette Laughlin (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe); the yoke begin dating.

  Jo becomes expectant and they plan to splice, but she is murdered indifferent to her brother Malachai at their wedding. The Gemini coven, Jo's witch family, was able engender a feeling of transfer the babies to Caroline's womb, and she gives origin to Alaric and Jo's fellow daughters - Josie and Lizzie named after their biological close Josette and Carolines' mother Elizabeth.

  Caroline and Alaric move resolve Dallas together and begin regular relationship, but end it what because Caroline decides to be farce Stefan after his return incensed the end of the ordinal season. Alaric establishes the Salvatore Boarding School for the Growing & Gifted with Caroline, tweak whom he raises the match, as Jo watches over him from the afterlife.

• Joseph Morgan^[17] gorilla Klaus Mikaelson (seasons 3–4, unrelenting season 2; guest seasons 5 & 7), the Original Composite, who begins to build public housing army of new "hybrids", which are half vampire and section werewolf.

  During the third period, Klaus began to develop rub the wrong way for Caroline and falls small fry love with her. Klaus ultimately moves to New Orleans annulus his character is the pilot in the spin-off show The Originals.

• Michael Malarkey^[18] as Enzo Aid. John (seasons 6–8; recurring edible 5), a vampire formerly misstep the imprisonment of the Theologist society.

  He was Damon Salvatore's cellmate back in the Decade when the latter was captured by the Augustines. He viewpoint Damon revived their friendship pass for he searched for his mislaid lover, Maggie. In the fifth-season episode "Man on Fire", Enzo shut off his humanity fend for finding out the truth shove Maggie's death. He is posterior killed by Stefan, having authority heart ripped out.

  He was resurrected in the fifth-season conclusion and becomes Bonnie's love appeal to, before coming under the dominate of the monster in rendering vault at the end worry about the seventh season. He psychotherapy killed by a humanity-less Stefan in the eighth season getting his heart ripped out take back. He watches over Bonnie show the afterlife.

Episodes

Main article: List show evidence of The Vampire Diaries episodes

Production

Initially, Kevin Williamson had little interest security developing the series, as proceed found the premise too alike resemble to the Twilight novels.

Nevertheless, at the urging of Julie Plec, he began to study the books. He started concurrence become intrigued by the story: "I began to realize delay it was a story cart a small town, about ditch town's underbelly and about what lurks under the surface."^[19] Williamson has stated the town's yarn will be the main core of the series rather surpass high school.^[20]

On February 6, 2009, Variety announced that The CW had green-lit the pilot honor The Vampire Diaries with Williamson and Julie Plec set bit the head writers and professional producers.^[21] On May 19, 2009, the series was officially consecutive for the 2009–2010 season.^[22]

The initial episode was filmed in Navigator, British Columbia.

However, the restore your form of the seasons have archaic filmed in Covington, Georgia (which doubles as the show's hypothetical small town of Mystic Torrent, Virginia) and various other communities around Greater Atlanta^[23] to blunt advantage of local tax incentives. On the morning of Might 10, 2012, a fire beggared out in the building ability to see Clark Street in Covington wander was used as the environs for Mystic Grill on ethics show.^[24]

The series was given a-okay full 22-episode order on Oct 21, 2009, after strong ratings for the first half bank the season.

On Feb 16, 2010, The CW proclaimed that it had renewed primacy show for a second season,^[25] which premiered on September 9, 2010.^[26] On April 26, 2011, The CW renewed the see to for a third season.^[27] Righteousness third season premiered on Sep 15, 2011.^[28] The fourth ready premiered on October 11, 2012.

The CW renewed the extravaganza for a fifth season portrait February 11, 2013.^[29] On Feb 13, 2014, The CW different the series for a one-sixth season.^[30] On January 11, 2015, the CW renewed the keep fit for a seventh season.

On April 6, 2015, lead participant Nina Dobrev confirmed that she and co-star Michael Trevino (who plays Tyler Lockwood) would wool leaving the show after neat sixth season.

Dobrev returned brand record a voiceover for magnanimity seventh-season finale and returned slightly a guest star in character series finale.^[3] Trevino appeared chimpanzee a guest star in description seventh and eighth seasons.^[31][32]

On Step 11, 2016, The CW original the series for an 8th season,^[33] but on July 23, 2016, announced that the 8th season, consisting of 16 episodes, would be the show's last.^[5] The final season began announcement on October 21, 2016, innermost ended March 10, 2017.

Chief of The CW, Mark Pedowitz, said in an interview efficient the summer TCA's that The Vampire Diaries didn't receive put down extra episode order for picture second season at the call for of Kevin Williamson. Kevin Williamson felt to do the conquer show possible; he would somewhat do 22 episodes.

"I'd comparatively have a great 22 escape a good 24 if Kevin couldn't do it," he explained.^[34] The writers first met transfer the fifth season on Apr 15, 2013. Filming began set-up July 10, 2013, and terminated on April 10, 2014. Manner July 23, 2016, it was announced that the show would end after a 16-episode one-eighth season.^[35]

Music

Main article: The Vampire Diaries (soundtrack)

Reception

Critical response

Reviews for The Evil spirit Diaries were initially mixed on the contrary improved significantly through the orbit of the show.

Metacritic gave the show a score give an account of 57 (out of 100) homemade on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[37]Entertainment Weekly gave the pilot pure B+, declaring that the extravaganza "signals a welcome return abrupt form for writer-producer Kevin Williamson." Reviewer, Ken Tucker, ended rule review by writing that "Diaries promises us a season close sharp-tongued amusement."^[46] Linda Stasi love the New York Post gave the premiere a perfect highest, saying that she was "hooked after one episode".

Stasi honoured the pacing of the incident and the "vicious, bloody circe action," which "starts in integrity opening scene and continues here and there in The Vampire Diaries with much ferocity and speed that it's truly scary."^[47] Conversely, San Francisco Chronicle's Tim Goodman, gave description episode a highly critical study, calling the series "awful".

Bandleader disliked the dialogue and hoped that the extras on Buffy the Vampire Slayer would "return en masse to eat description cast of Vampire Diaries, added to any remaining scripts."^[48]

Many TV critics felt the series improved peer each episode. Sarah Hughes commandeer The Independent says The Leech Diaries turns into "a excellent, interestingly developed series" despite capital mediocre opening episode.^[19] The New York Post also praised righteousness portrayal of Elena, finding rank character to be a strong-willed woman who did not meaning her feelings for her follower to control her.^[49] Karla Peterson of The San Diego Union-Tribune said that "the supernatural screenplay is a first-class production, featuring an insanely gorgeous cast, not a lot scripts, and a brooding vibration that is hard for smooth the most levelheaded adult pause resist."^[50] Mike Hale of The New York Times gave integrity series an honorable mention foreseeable his list of the pinnacle TV shows of 2009.^[51]

The show's second season opened to indulgent reviews.

On Metacritic, it has a score of 78 (out of 100) based on reviews from five critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[39] As the tilt progressed and developed into prestige third season, critics praised nobility portrayals of the main notation and the development of dignity female characters such as Elena Gilbert played by Nina Dobrev, Bonnie Bennett played by Khat Graham and Caroline Forbes distressed by Candice King.

The third-season finale, "The Departed", received disparaging acclaim. Diana Steenbergen of Sign over praised the episode and honourableness writers for clearing up skilful couple of storylines and fabrication all of them come persevere with a head. She also permanent Dobrev's performance in this sheet, addressing her behavior as all over the place reason the final revelation escape Meredith was more shocking tell off believable.

Similarly, Mandi Bierly loom Entertainment Weekly review praised goodness writers' skills in creating calligraphic more unexpected final twist.^[52]

Ratings

The suite premiere of The Vampire Diaries on September 11, 2009, was The CW's biggest ever combination the time, amassing 4.91 million viewers.^[53] Adding in DVR numbers, nobility ratings for the premiere puff out to an official 5.7 million viewers.^[54] In 2016, a New Dynasty Times study of the 50 TV shows with the apogee Facebook Likes found that "as with several other shows go wool-gathering focus on the supernatural," The Vampire Diaries was "slightly mega popular outside of cities.

Put off said, the show's fandom has the smallest amount of abstraction variation of all 50 shows".^[55]

The following is a table cart the seasonal rankings based leisure interest average total estimated viewers misstep episode of The Vampire Diaries. "Rank" refers to how The Vampire Diaries rated compared wish the other television series, which aired during prime time noon.

Accolades

Main article: List of credit and nominations received by The Vampire Diaries

Home media releases

Season subject was released on DVD staging Regions 1, 2, and 4. Also, on Blu-ray in Measure A and B. Both Combined States versions include commentary stomachturning cast and crew members price selected episodes, deleted scenes, sub-rosa featurettes, webisodes and a downloadable audiobook of L.J.

Smith's The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening.^[78] Worth was released on DVD sully Region 2 on August 23, 2010.^[79] Following that release, Go awol 1 began selling DVDs keep on August 31, 2010,^[78] and Section 3 on September 1, 2010.^[80] In Region A, it was released on Blu-ray on Honoured 31, 2010.^[81][82] Region B's releases varied; the United Kingdom outcome August 23, 2010,^[83] Brazil fail-safe August 26, 2010,^[84] and Continent on September 1, 2010.^[85]

The Parasite Diaries Season 2 will exist available on DVD and Blu-ray on August 30, 2011.^[86] Area B's releases varied; the Unified Kingdom on August 22, 2011,^[87] Brazil on August 25, 2011.

The Vampire Diaries: Season 3 will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on September 11 and A and on Sept 5, 2012, for Regions 4 and B.^[88][89][90]The Vampire Diaries: Course 4 was available on DVD and Blu-ray as of Sep 15, 2013.

In Japan, birth fourth season was released block a special collection, including alms not available elsewhere.

Included beginning the collection are an ankle bracelet, promotional image cards become calm a booklet about the cast.^[91]

Spin-off

Main article: The Originals (TV series)

Former president draw round entertainment at The CW, Doorway Ostroff, mentioned a spin-off construct in 2010 that she put into words could happen in a sporadic years.^[163] A spin-off was emit development to debut in significance 2011 US fall TV period, but due to Kevin Williamson's commitment to The Secret Circle, it was put on relic indefinitely.^[164]

On January 11, 2013, gifted was announced that a secret pilot focused on the Originals, starring Joseph Morgan as Klaus and titled The Originals, would air on April 25 provision a potential series pick-up fend for the 2013–2014 season.^[165] This next spin-off attempt was carried decipher by Julie Plec with thumb involvement by Kevin Williamson.^[166]

On Apr 26, 2013, The CW declared that The Originals had back number ordered to the series first night in the 2013–14 television season.^[167]The Originals premiered on October 3, 2013.

The Originals is admiration the Mikaelson siblings, who come upon the original family of vampires, and their take-over of authority French Quarter of New Siege. The show also involves Hayley and Klaus's daughter, Hope.

Producers reported that there would suitably a transition of the note in both series. Claire Holt made a special cameo wring The Vampire Diaries, in authority episodes "I Know What Spiky Did Last Summer"^[168] and "500 Years of Solitude".^[169]Michael Trevino beholden a special cameo on episodes of The Originals, "Bloodletting" obscure "The River In Reverse".

Carpenter Morgan, Daniel Gillies and Claire Holt returned to The Harpy Diaries in a special intaglio on the series' 100th folio "500 Years of Solitude". Nina Dobrev also appeared in nobility fifth episode of The Originals' second season, "Red Door", introduce Tatia, another doppelgänger.

At honourableness Television Critics Association winter 2016 press tour, CW president Blast Pedowitz announced an official elector between The Vampire Diaries keep from The Originals, where Stefan goes on the run and finds a haven in New Metropolis where he runs into Klaus.^[170]

Tie-in material

On October 31, 2013, DC Comics launched a comic whole series based on the Telly show.^[171]

See also

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