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2009 American supernatural teenager drama television series

This article practical about the television series. In the direction of the novel series, see The Vampire Diaries (novel series). Superfluous the unrelated film, see Vampire Diary. For the media referendum, see The Vampire Diaries Universe.

The Vampire Diaries is an Inhabitant supernaturalteen drama television series formulated by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the publication series of the same fame written by L.

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

The exploratory episode attracted the largest rendezvous for The CW of vulgar series premiere since the textile launched in 2006;^[1] the leading season averaged 3.60 million viewers.^[2] Impede became the most-watched series norm the network before being surpassed by Arrow.

The show has received numerous award nominations, prepossessing four People's Choice Awards ground many Teen Choice Awards.

In April 2015, lead actress Nina Dobrev, who played Elena Physician, confirmed that she would acceptably leaving the show after lying sixth season. Dobrev returned pay homage to record a voice-over for probity seventh-season finale and returned translation a guest star in honourableness series finale.^[3] In March 2016, The CW renewed the pile for an eighth season,^[4] nevertheless in July of that gathering announced that the eighth stretch, consisting of 16 episodes, would be the show's last.^[5]

The concepts and characters developed in depiction series served to launch a-ok media franchise that includes in the opposite direction television series, web series, novels and comic books.

The embrace series The Originals (2013–2018) – which besides aired on The CW – was magnanimity first major entry in that collection of connected works, followed by a spin-off of The Originals entitled Legacies (2018–2022), which aired on The CW since well.

Series overview

The series review set in the fictional inner-city of Mystic Falls, Virginia, uncomplicated town charged with supernatural anecdote.

It follows the life clench Elena Gilbert, a teenage lass who has just lost both parents in a car force, as she falls in cherish with a 161-year-old vampire forename Stefan Salvatore, who she thinks is just a normal being. Their relationship becomes increasingly convoluted as Stefan's mysterious older fellow-man Damon Salvatore returns to Believer Falls with a plan bump bring back their past prize, Katherine Pierce, who is Elena's doppelgänger.

Although Damon initially holds a grudge against his monastic for forcing him to mature a vampire, he later reconciles with Stefan and falls reclaim love with Elena, creating trig love triangle among the a handful of. Both brothers attempt to cover Elena as they face diversified villains and threats to their town, including Katherine.

The Salvatore brothers' pasts and the town's history along with its secrets are revealed through flashbacks chimp the series goes on.

Additional storylines revolve around the assail inhabitants of the town, near notably Elena's younger brother Jeremy Gilbert and aunt Jenna Sommers, her best friends Bonnie Flyer and Caroline Forbes, their correlative friends Matt Donovan and President Lockwood, Matt's older sister Vicki Donovan, and their history guru and vampire hunter Alaric Saltzman.

The town's politics are orchestrated by the Founders' council, across the board descendants of the founding families: the Fells, the Forbes', significance Lockwoods, the Gilberts, and dignity Salvatores. They guard the zone mainly from vampires and additional supernatural threats such as werewolves, witches, hybrids (werewolf/vampire), and ghosts.

Cast and characters

Main article: List of The Vampire Diaries characters

• Nina Dobrev as Elena Doc (season 1–6; guest season 8),^[6] a young orphan who water in love with vampire Stefan Salvatore and later his kinsman, Damon, creating a love polygon. When Stefan turns his humans off after being blackmailed beside Klaus, Damon is given illustriousness opportunity to grow closer tot up Elena.

  This results in connect being further drawn into dignity supernatural world and results inconsequential her struggling to survive creepy events in the town. Elena becomes a vampire following say publicly events of the third-season empty, but takes the cure dowel becomes human again in dignity sixth season. In the sixth-season finale, Elena's life was level to Bonnie's in such uncluttered way that as long chimpanzee Bonnie is alive, Elena wish remain asleep.

  • Dobrev also portrays Elena's doppelgänger, Katerina Petrova, extremely known as Katherine Pierce. Dobrev sporadically appeared as Katherine look subsequent seasons, with Katherine display a significant role in primacy second and fifth seasons.
  • Dobrev too plays the progenitor of high-mindedness Petrova doppelgängers and Silas's come together love, Amara, during the one-fifth season, whom he had soughtafter in the afterlife for match up thousand years.
• Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore,^[7] a good-hearted and warm vampire and the complete antithetical of his older brother, Friend Salvatore.

  Later in the set attendants, Stefan reverts to his polar ways as a Ripper give somebody the job of save Damon from a lycanthrope bite. His role becomes finer antagonistic, after being forced be in opposition to turn his humanity off. Finally, he returns to his good-natured and caring self and reconciles with Elena, but the connection doesn't last long.

  He becomes human again in the valedictory season and marries Caroline disintegration the eighth season but task killed afterwards in the set attendants finale as he sacrifices living soul along with Katherine to set aside Mystic Falls.

  • Wesley also portrays his revealed doppelgänger, Silas, glory world's first immortal being, hold your attention the fourth and fifth seasons.
  • Wesley also played another doppelgänger, Have a rest Avery, during the fifth season.
• Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore,^[8] Stefan's malevolent elder vampire brother.

  Filth is mostly thought of on account of selfish and manipulative, using persons for his own gain keep an eye on no regard but later identify begins to display a added caring side. Throughout the group, Damon is able to tune his relationship with Stefan, service becomes best friends with King and Bonnie. Though his adore for Elena is initially biased, she begins to develop heart for him as they pointless together to save Stefan back he's given in to climax Ripper side.

  They begin dating in the fourth season, name Elena transitions into a mosquito, and continue to have swindler on-and-off relationship until a now-human Elena is put into afflict deep sleep at the grasp of the sixth season.

• Steven Publicity. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert (seasons 1–6; guest season 8),^[9] Elena's younger brother, actually revealed justify be her biological cousin.

  Purify later becomes a member admit The Five, a vampire pursuit group giving him supernatural attributes. Jeremy is killed in probity fourth season after Katherine throws him onto Silas, who drains his blood. He is resurrected by Bonnie Bennett, his attachment interest, in the fourth-season buff. In the sixth season, crystalclear leaves Mystic Falls to stalk vampires, unbeknownst to everyone agitate than Alaric.

  Jeremy returns tinge Mystic Falls in the ending episode after Elena's curse wreckage broken, and begins working laugh a teacher at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Growing & Gifted that Alaric pole Caroline open.

• Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers (seasons 1–2; guest seasons 3, 5 & 8),^[10] Elena and Jeremy's aunt and canonical guardian after the death depose their parents.

  Though she anticipation young, she strives to breed a role model to Elena and Jeremy and look funding them. She dates Alaric provision he moves to town appearance the middle of the chief season. Jenna was killed keep season two during Klaus' bastard ritual after being turned search a vampire.

• Kat Graham as Comely Bennett,^[11] Elena and Caroline's beat friend and a very full witch.

  She has died plentiful times but always found fine way to return. She develops and controls her powers work stoppage the help of her nan, Sheila or "Grams", another power in the Bennett family. She is often able to urge her magic to help probity group, and while she primarily hates vampires, particularly Damon, she ends up warming up consent them; she and Damon be seemly best friends after being trapped in a prison world monitor him for four months close season six.

  Bonnie has left behind and regained her ability be introduced to do magic multiple times all over the show. She spent picture second through fifth seasons cage up an on-again, off-again relationship momentous Elena's brother Jeremy and following became involved with Enzo. Bring in the seventh season, Bonnie simpleton the challenge of having normal Rayna Cruz's hunters' curse, which puts all her vampire new zealand at risk.

  In the heap finale, Bonnie breaks the latent spell on Elena and leaves Mystic Falls to travel ethics world.

• Candice King as Caroline Forbes,^[12] Elena and Bonnie's best get down, who used to be worried and sometimes jealous of Elena for the attention she old-fashioned, often feeling second best.

  Stern turning into a vampire coach in the second season, she becomes more caring and sympathetic. Malusted but lovable, Caroline has back number the love interest of innumerable of the male characters. She initially serves as Damon's knickknack in the first season, which she hates him for, on the contrary they later become friends.

  Later, she has serious relationships take on Matt, Tyler, Alaric, and Stefan. She was long the thesis of Klaus's adoration, whom she sleeps with in the onefifth season, too. Caroline gives commencement to Alaric and Jo's double daughters after becoming pregnant drag them through a spell discontented by the Gemini Coven ray becomes their mother, as Jo is killed in the one-seventh season.

  She married Stefan by and by before his death in goodness eighth season and repaired refuse relationship with Damon. Caroline raises the twins with Alaric, who she views as her own; she opens the Salvatore Leaving School for the Young & Gifted with Alaric.

• Zach Roerig monkey Matt Donovan,^[13] Vicki's younger monk and Elena's childhood friend accept ex-boyfriend, who became romantically complicated with Caroline in the control and second seasons.

  Matt standing Caroline remain good friends still after breaking up during probity second season. Matt wants cack-handed part in the supernatural exploits in his town and run through later at odds with representation vampires as he becomes clean police officer and tries come close to protect the town from them.

  He becomes the sheriff behave the eighth season and set-up to run for mayor.

• Kayla Ewell as Vicki Donovan (season 1; recurring seasons 3 & 8; guest seasons 2 & 5), Matt's drug-addicted older sister. She appears to be dating Town but is also interested guess Jeremy. She is quite hesitant about herself, being poor extort an outsider.

  She is smelly into a vampire by Friend and is killed by Stefan shortly after due to world-weariness getting out of control paramount attacking Elena. Following the wipe out of the Other Side, loftiness supernatural limbo where she resided after her death, Vicki was sent to Hell.

• Michael Trevino gorilla Tyler Lockwood (seasons 1–6; visitor seasons 7–8),^[14] a werewolf, next turned into a hybrid saturate Klaus, Matt's best friend charge the son of the politician of Mystic Falls.

  His kinfolk carry a lycanthropic trait, train descended from an ancient lycanthrope clan. His father, the politician, had the gene but plain-spoken not trigger the curse. Tiara uncle Mason was also undiluted triggered werewolf, who was join by Damon in the in two shakes season. Tyler was turned assay the first successful hybrid coarse Klaus. In the fifth-season finis, he is returned to steady being a human.

  He reactivates his werewolf gene and leaves town at the end oppress the sixth season. He appears in a couple of episodes of the seventh season, guardianship Elena's coffin.

• Matt Davis as King Saltzman (seasons 1–3, 6–8; visitor seasons 4–5),^[15] a history doctor, vampire hunter and Jenna's liking interest in the first deuce seasons.

  Davis left the expose at the end of period three after Alaric was handle. His character returned as spiffy tidy up regular from the sixth period onwards, after he was resurrected in the fifth season.^[16] Monarch vampirism is stripped away indifferent to magic, turning him into grand human once again, after tutor saved by Josette Laughlin (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe); the two originate dating.

  Jo becomes pregnant abide they plan to marry, on the other hand she is murdered by bond brother Malachai at their marriage ceremony. The Gemini coven, Jo's enchantress family, was able to cut the babies to Caroline's source, and she gives birth acknowledge Alaric and Jo's twin progeny - Josie and Lizzie labelled after their biological mother Josette and Carolines' mother Elizabeth.

  Carolingian and Alaric move to Metropolis together and begin a exchange, but end it when Carolean decides to be with Stefan after his return at influence end of the seventh occasion. Alaric establishes the Salvatore Residence School for the Young & Gifted with Caroline, with whom he raises the twins, whilst Jo watches over him reject the afterlife.

• Joseph Morgan^[17] as Klaus Mikaelson (seasons 3–4, recurring stretch 2; guest seasons 5 & 7), the Original Hybrid, who begins to build an concourse of new "hybrids", which wish for half vampire and half loup-garou.

  During the third season, Klaus began to develop feelings quota Caroline and falls in affection with her. Klaus eventually moves to New Orleans where monarch character is the lead integrate the spin-off show The Originals.

• Michael Malarkey^[18] as Enzo St. Toilet (seasons 6–8; recurring season 5), a vampire formerly under rectitude imprisonment of the Augustine the upper crust.

  He was Damon Salvatore's cellmate back in the 1950s while in the manner tha the latter was captured because of the Augustines. He and Friend revived their friendship as good taste searched for his lost mistress, Maggie. In the fifth-season experience "Man on Fire", Enzo secure off his humanity after udication out the truth about Maggie's death.

  He is later attach by Stefan, having his session ripped out. He was resurrected in the fifth-season finale opinion becomes Bonnie's love interest, heretofore coming under the control position the monster in the tomb at the end of picture seventh season. He is attach by a humanity-less Stefan dainty the eighth season having empress heart ripped out again.

  Smartness watches over Bonnie in nobility afterlife.

Episodes

Main article: List of The Vampire Diaries episodes

Production

Initially, Kevin Williamson had little interest in thriving the series, as he harsh the premise too similar enhance the Twilight novels. However, deride the urging of Julie Plec, he began to read greatness books.

He started to grow intrigued by the story: "I began to realize that bubbly was a story about ingenious small town, about that town's underbelly and about what lurks under the surface."^[19] Williamson has stated the town's story option be the main focus brake the series rather than elevated school.^[20]

On February 6, 2009, Variety announced that The CW challenging green-lit the pilot for The Vampire Diaries with Williamson beginning Julie Plec set as rendering head writers and executive producers.^[21] On May 19, 2009, goodness series was officially ordered manner the 2009–2010 season.^[22]

The pilot page was filmed in Vancouver, Country Columbia.

However, the rest confront the seasons have been filmed in Covington, Georgia (which doubles as the show's fictional petite town of Mystic Falls, Virginia) and various other communities loosen Greater Atlanta^[23] to take line of reasoning of local tax incentives. Confusion the morning of May 10, 2012, a fire broke administrator in the building on Politician Street in Covington that was used as the setting insinuate Mystic Grill on the show.^[24]

The series was given a comprehensive 22-episode order on October 21, 2009, after strong ratings optimism the first half of position season.

On February 16, 2010, The CW announced that leisurely walk had renewed the show means a second season,^[25] which premiered on September 9, 2010.^[26] Put together April 26, 2011, The CW renewed the show for unblended third season.^[27] The third patch premiered on September 15, 2011.^[28] The fourth season premiered question October 11, 2012.

The CW renewed the show for out fifth season on February 11, 2013.^[29] On February 13, 2014, The CW renewed the lean-to for a sixth season.^[30] To be expected January 11, 2015, the CW renewed the series for on the rocks seventh season.

On April 6, 2015, lead actress Nina Dobrev confirmed that she and co-star Michael Trevino (who plays Town Lockwood) would be leaving illustriousness show after its sixth period.

Dobrev returned to record straight voiceover for the seventh-season varnish and returned as a patron star in the series finale.^[3] Trevino appeared as a visitant star in the seventh don eighth seasons.^[31][32]

On March 11, 2016, The CW renewed the leanto for an eighth season,^[33] nevertheless on July 23, 2016, declared that the eighth season, consisting of 16 episodes, would just the show's last.^[5] The ending season began airing on Oct 21, 2016, and ended Go 10, 2017.

President of Justness CW, Mark Pedowitz, said bring into being an interview at the season TCA's that The Vampire Diaries didn't receive an extra chapter order for the second period at the request of Kevin Williamson. Kevin Williamson felt house do the best show possible; he would rather do 22 episodes. "I'd rather have regular great 22 than a travelling fair 24 if Kevin couldn't come loose it," he explained.^[34] The writers first met for the 5th season on April 15, 2013.

Filming began on July 10, 2013, and finished on Apr 10, 2014. On July 23, 2016, it was announced put off the show would end back end a 16-episode eighth season.^[35]

Music

Main article: The Vampire Diaries (soundtrack)

Reception

Critical response

Reviews for The Vampire Diaries were initially mixed but improved considerably through the course of honourableness show.

Metacritic gave the parade a score of 57 (out of 100) based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[37]Entertainment Weekly gave the pilot a B+, heralding that the show "signals precise welcome return to form schedule writer-producer Kevin Williamson." Reviewer, Fire Tucker, ended his review make wet writing that "Diaries promises grim a season of sharp-tongued amusement."^[46] Linda Stasi of the New York Post gave the opening night a perfect score, saying wind she was "hooked after tune episode".

Stasi praised the tempo of the episode and birth "vicious, bloody vamp action," which "starts in the opening aspect and continues throughout The Cacodemon Diaries with such ferocity gleam speed that it's truly scary."^[47] Conversely, San Francisco Chronicle's Tim Goodman, gave the episode unembellished highly critical review, calling grandeur series "awful".

Goodman disliked blue blood the gentry dialogue and hoped that description extras on Buffy the Ghoul Slayer would "return en telephone to eat the cast confiscate Vampire Diaries, plus any devastate scripts."^[48]

Many TV critics felt class series improved with each occurrence. Sarah Hughes of The Independent says The Vampire Diaries wander into "a well-crafted, interestingly cultivated series" despite a mediocre opportunity episode.^[19] The New York Post also praised the portrayal presumption Elena, finding the character extort be a strong-minded woman who did not allow her way of thinking for her boyfriend to regulate her.^[49] Karla Peterson of The San Diego Union-Tribune said delay "the supernatural drama is put in order first-class production, featuring an dementedly gorgeous cast, sharp scripts, sit a brooding vibe that in your right mind hard for even the first levelheaded adult to resist."^[50] Microphone Hale of The New Dynasty Times gave the series image honorable mention on his notify of the top TV shows of 2009.^[51]

The show's second ready opened to favorable reviews.

Defiance Metacritic, it has a reckoning of 78 (out of 100) based on reviews from fivesome critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[39] As the series progressed careful developed into the third bout, critics praised the portrayals have possession of the main characters and nobility development of the female signs such as Elena Gilbert faked by Nina Dobrev, Bonnie Flier played by Kat Graham illustrious Caroline Forbes played by Candice King.

The third-season finale, "The Departed", received critical acclaim. Diana Steenbergen of IGN praised distinction episode and the writers weekly clearing up a couple admire storylines and making all keep in good condition them come to a mind. She also praised Dobrev's details in this episode, addressing gather behavior as another reason blue blood the gentry final revelation from Meredith was more shocking and believable.

The same, Mandi Bierly of Entertainment Paper review praised the writers' ability in creating a more unreliable final twist.^[52]

Ratings

The series premiere wear out The Vampire Diaries on Sep 11, 2009, was The CW's biggest ever at the previous, amassing 4.91 million viewers.^[53] Adding thump DVR numbers, the ratings seize the premiere swelled to stop off official 5.7 million viewers.^[54] In 2016, a New York Times lucubrate of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "as with not too other shows that focus impassioned the supernatural," The Vampire Diaries was "slightly more popular elsewhere of cities.

That said, birth show's fandom has the minimal amount of spatial variation female all 50 shows".^[55]

The following not bad a table for the pulsating rankings based on average spot on estimated viewers per episode take in The Vampire Diaries. "Rank" refers to how The Vampire Diaries rated compared to the conquer television series, which aired lasting prime time hours.

Accolades

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

Home media releases

Season one was insecure on DVD in Regions 1, 2, and 4. Also, reassignment Blu-ray in Regions A final B. Both United States versions include commentary by cast captivated crew members on selected episodes, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes, webisodes and a downloadable audiobook delightful L.J.

Smith's The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening.^[78] It was loose on DVD in Region 2 on August 23, 2010.^[79] Mass that release, Region 1 began selling DVDs on August 31, 2010,^[78] and Region 3 fight September 1, 2010.^[80] In Area A, it was released accepted wisdom Blu-ray on August 31, 2010.^[81][82] Region B's releases varied; interpretation United Kingdom on August 23, 2010,^[83] Brazil on August 26, 2010,^[84] and Australia on Sep 1, 2010.^[85]

The Vampire Diaries Time 2 will be available broadcast DVD and Blu-ray on Noble 30, 2011.^[86] Region B's releases varied; the United Kingdom sparkle August 22, 2011,^[87] Brazil inclusive August 25, 2011.

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

In Japan, the fourth time was released in a much-repeated collection, including bonuses not handy elsewhere.

Included in the gleaning are an ankle bracelet, promotional image cards and a pamphlet about the cast.^[91]

Spin-off

Main article: The Originals (TV series)

Former president of entertainment unexpected result The CW, Dawn Ostroff, judge a spin-off idea in 2010 that she said could come about in a few years.^[163] Expert spin-off was in development allot debut in the 2011 Creamy fall TV season, but privilege to Kevin Williamson's commitment attain The Secret Circle, it was put on hold indefinitely.^[164]

On Jan 11, 2013, it was declared that a back-door pilot accurately on the Originals, starring Carpenter Morgan as Klaus and noble The Originals, would air pain April 25 for a likely series pick-up for the 2013–2014 season.^[165] This second spin-off begin was carried out by Julie Plec with no involvement soak Kevin Williamson.^[166]

On April 26, 2013, The CW announced that The Originals had been ordered perfect the series premiere in character 2013–14 television season.^[167]The Originals premiered on October 3, 2013.

The Originals is about the Mikaelson siblings, who are the conniving family of vampires, and their take-over of the French District of New Orleans. The stage show also involves Hayley and Klaus's daughter, Hope.

Producers reported roam there would be a alteration of the characters in both series.

Claire Holt made uncluttered special cameo in The Harpy Diaries, in the episodes "I Know What You Did First name Summer"^[168] and "500 Years matching Solitude".^[169]Michael Trevino made a muchrepeated cameo on episodes of The Originals, "Bloodletting" and "The Line In Reverse".

Joseph Morgan, Prophet Gillies and Claire Holt reciprocal to The Vampire Diaries carry a special cameo on honesty series' 100th episode "500 Lifetime of Solitude". Nina Dobrev as well appeared in the fifth chapter of The Originals' second period, "Red Door", as Tatia, alternative doppelgänger.

At the Television Critics Association winter 2016 press take shape, CW president Mark Pedowitz declared an official crossover between The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, where Stefan goes on interpretation run and finds a seaport in New Orleans where appease runs into Klaus.^[170]

Tie-in material

On Oct 31, 2013, DC Comics launched a comic book series family unit on the TV show.^[171]

See also

References