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The Vampire Diaries - Season 1
The Vampire Diaries is based on the best-selling book series from Alloy Entertainment. The Vampire Diaries follows Elena. She falls in love with vampire Stefan and is drawn into the supernatural world as a result. But Stefan, it seems, has a greater evil to deal with when his dangerous older brother, Damon, shows up to wreak havoc on the town of Mystic Falls, and claim Elena for himself.
7 October 1977, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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11 March 1981, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
13 April 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 10, 2009
There's some attempts to convey real emotion, but despite the amount of meat in the pilot-indicating that there's plenty to explore over the course of a season-The Vampire Diaries displays only faint signs of having any life in it.
September 18, 2009
The core teen couple is a winner.
February 05, 2010
It might not be the most groundbreaking show on television right now, but it's a well-crafted, interestingly developed series, which really kicks up a gear after an anodyne opening episode.
September 09, 2009
A good chunk of the show's target demographic of angst-ridden teenagers will likely fall in love at first sight, and their male counterparts might even derive some entertainment out of it as well.
September 18, 2009
A tolerably flavorsome ball of crimson bubblegum.
February 02, 2010
The Vampire Diaries is a mishmash of ideas we've seen before.
September 18, 2009
The Vampire Diaries nonetheless satisfactorily opens up yet another TV world of heightened youth, where blood-sucking is a metaphor for a whole range of fears and desires.
September 18, 2009
I don't think it's terrible... I'll give it that. But there is a lot of rote vampire lore that they're just regurgitating in the story.
September 10, 2009
Williamson has said that the Vampire Diaries books eventually take a unique turn and that the series will do the same, but quicker. Little in the premiere will encourage viewers to return in order to find out if that's true.
September 10, 2009
The story is pure cheese, but so, to my mind, that's the level upon which it should be judged. No comparing it to lobster, you know? The fog and the crow? This is a gothic (teen) romance. They have their place here.