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The Vampire Diaries is based on the best-selling book series from Alloy Entertainment. In the first season Elena and Stefan are beginning to get along but the evil ahead is unthinkable.
27 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
11 June 1988, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
20 September 1995, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
3 March 1986, Newport Beach, California, USA
4 December 1984, Coevorden, Drenthe, Netherlands
20 May 1983, Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
17 November 2006, Albany, Georgia, USA
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.
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
The core teen couple is a winner.
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 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.
February 02, 2010
The Vampire Diaries is a mishmash of ideas we've seen before.
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.
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.
