The Vampire Diaries season 5 review

The season 5 finale for “The Vampire Diaries” Thursday night certainly brought the surprises, and it also saw enough traveling from one world to another to make us think that we were stuck in the world’s weirdest game of musical chairs to date. For a sizable chunk of the episode, we Liv doing various incantations while Bonnie […]

On Thursday night’s new episode of “The Vampire Diaries,” there were surprises aplenty. Also, there were probably a few reasons to go berserk if you ship Caroline and Stefan. Are these two going to hook up or not? We almost hope that the relationship stays this way,mostly because the present dynamic is just so good. […]

“The Vampire Diaries” loves to bring the Grim Reaper back for return appearances, and on Thursday night’s “Man on Fire,” they did that with a character who was starting to become a fan favorite for some out there. So Enzo is officially dead, but the curious thing for the moment is that he is not […]

Was Paul Wesley’s episode of “The Vampire Diaries” a smashing success? If nothing else, we definitely consider it to be a great surprise. He actually managed to move the show away from some of its shortcomings, and towards a product that was more adult and complex. To us, the most intriguing moment of the entire […]

Usually when we talk about surprises related to “The Vampire Diaries,” they come in the form of relationships or deaths. While there was the share of drama related to the two of these things on Thursday night’s “Rescue Me,” one of the bigger surprises of the hour was actually about family. After undergoing a fair […]

“The Vampire Diaries” does love its surprises, but there are also some times here and there where the individual character moments do end up winning out over everything else. During Thursday night’s “While You Were Sleeping,” there were plenty of opportunities for those moments to come out. The title of the episode itself was a […]

When you think about it for the minute, Thursday night’s new episode of “The Vampire Diaries” entitled “Gone Girl” really should have been titled “Gone Girls” instead. After all, there were a pair of characters who more or less passed away … and it was poetic. After being a part of the show for so […]

You knew that “The Vampire Diaries” was going to pull off all sorts of big stunners for its 100th episode, but who knew things were going to be as truly crazy as they were tonight? “500 Years of Solitude” produced almost everything that you would have wanted to see from one of the most important […]

As “The Vampire Diaries” came to a close for 2013 on Thursday night, there were just as many questions raised about the future as there were answers in the present. But we must start with what to us is the primary relationship bullet point for the show: Elena and Damon are over … at least […]

On tonight’s season 5 episode of “The Vampire Diaries,” the show wasted no time in telling us that any plans that we had for the season as a whole were probably wrong. Not only that, but we seemingly saw the end to one of Nina Dobrev’s characters, and we have the end for the other half […]