With the werewolf bite getting worse, Damon is ready to give up, but of course, Stefan can’t help but try to save him. The spirits in the old witch house reveal that Klaus will have the cure, so Stefan goes to strike a bargain while Alaric watches a sickly Damon. All goes well until Sheriff Forbes shows up with absolutely no plan and lets Damon out of the cellar. He immediately goes looking for Elena at the town square Gone with the Wind screening but finds Jeremy instead. Just as the two go int...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Now that Jenna has woken up, Elena explains to her that she’s in transition and Jenna realizes that she’s the vampire Klaus plans to sacrifice with the doppelgänger. With the addition of Jules as the werewolf, Klaus has all three goddesses needed to begin the ritual. With the sacrifice underway, Bonnie and Jeremy spend most of the night looking for a way to keep Elena human and end up binding Uncle John’s life force to Elena’s. Meanwhile, Stefan finally asks the question we’ve all been wondering...
Apr 04, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 21
It’s finally the full moon, which means Klaus is planning to break the sun and moon curse tonight. Elena and Stefan are willing to go along with the sacrifice and hope that Elijah’s magical elixir will bring Elena back to life, but Damon is not on board with that plan. In classic Damon fashion, he lashes out and feeds Elena his blood, almost guaranteeing that she will come back, but as a vampire that will hate him for an eternity. So Elena and Stefan go for a hike to spend one last human day tog...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Elena and the newly undaggered Elijah spend the day together so Elena can prove she’s trustworthy and so Elijah can tell her about the last time Klaus tried to break the sun and moon curse in the 1400s. Through flashbacks, Elijah tells the story of how he and Klaus met Katherine, and he makes three huge reveals about Klaus and the curse. We also see that Elijah has incredible chemistry with both Elena in the present day and Katherine in 1492, but I mean let’s face it, no one is surprised. Meanwh...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 19
It’s time for another decade dance: the 60s. Klaus continues to possess Alaric’s body, and with help from Katherine, he is ready to act as our favorite history teacher and taunt Elena. As always, Elena tries to pretend everything is normal, which of course means she and Bonnie and Stefan are finally going to school. Klaus, teaching history as Alaric, lays eyes on his doppelgänger and uses the other students to tell Elena to save the last dance tonight. So of course, the whole squad agrees to go ...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 18
After stopping by the Gilbert house to ruin Jenna and Alaric’s relationship, Isobel convinces John that she’s trying to help Elena. John is blinded by love and believes her, but Elena and Stefan are skeptical. Rightfully so, because Isobel immediately meets up with Katherine to tell her that she made a deal with Klaus to save Katherine’s life in exchange for the doppelgänger and the moonstone. Katherine is of course all in for that plan, so she goes looking for the moonstone and finds it stashed...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Now that Katherine has manipulated her way out of the tomb, she’s sticking around the Salvatore house to flirt with Stefan and Damon and antagonize Elena. And with Elijah now out of the picture, Stefan decides Team Save Elena should try to get Luka and Dr. Martin on their side, so he and Bonnie meet with the Martins at the Grill to plead their case. But Dr. Martin knows his best bet is just undaggering Elijah, so he astral projects Luka to rescue Elijah from the cellar of the Salvatore house. We...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 16
As Elena reads the Gilbert journals, she finds out about Stefan’s revenge on the founding families in 1864. Now that the truth is out, Stefan tells Elena about his ripper era and how Lexi brought him out of it. Meanwhile, Damon is desperate to get a chance to "talk" with Elijah—we all know what that really means. Andie gives Damon the perfect opportunity to “talk” by coming up with the brilliant idea that all of the adults should come over for a dinner party. This somehow comes together that nig...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 15
In a rare cute Stelena episode, Stefan and Elena decide to avoid Uncle John and go spend the day at the Gilbert family lake house. While Stelena have their romantic getaway, everyone back in Mystic Falls is scheming. First we have Caroline, Bonnie, and Jeremy plotting to get information from Luka about the sacrifice by putting him in a witchy trance. Then we have John, whose version of scheming is just stirring the pot, which he does by hinting to Jenna that Alaric is lying to her. And of course...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 14
All of the worst characters come out to play in this episode. Uncle John returns and immediately stirs the pot with Jenna and tries to parent Elena. Meanwhile, Tyler confronts Caroline about lying to him about how many vampires there are and who killed Mason. Trying to do damage control, Caroline sends Stefan to talk to Tyler to help him cool off. Unfortunately, Tyler can’t bear to talk to Stefan and screams “help, help” into the phone when Jules calls. Jules retaliates by kidnapping and torturi...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 13
With Rose’s werewolf bite getting worse every minute, Damon asks Elena to play nurse while he tries to get a cure from Jules. Despite Elena's do-gooder efforts Rose hallucinates, attacks her, and escapes to cause chaos at one of the town’s many events. Just to lighten things up for a minute, both Matt and Tyler kiss Caroline, setting up a classic love triangle and Stefan is completely MIA on his own mission to find Isobel. Damon eventually finds Rose at the school and takes her home to give her ...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 12
It’s finally the first full moon since Tyler became a werewolf, and he is desperate to find Mason to help him through the transition. Thankfully, Caroline steps in and comforts Tyler through the whole experience. Unfortunately, the voicemail Tyler left for Mason is overheard by our least favorite side character, Jules. When Jules gets to town and starts asking questions about Mason, Damon and Alaric scheme to find out whether she’s a werewolf. Meanwhile, Bonnie traps Elena in the Gilbert house a...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Desperate to save Elena, the Salvatore brothers plan to get the moonstone from Katherine with the help of Bonnie and Jeremy—not really a dream team. Elena wants nothing to do with their terrible plan, so she convinces Rose to take her to Slater’s apartment to find out more about Klaus. At the apartment, they find a very dead Slater and Slater’s vampire-groupie girlfriend who Elena manipulates into helping them. Elena then reveals in a very Katherine Pierce way that she also used Rose and wants t...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 10
After Rose tells Elena that Klaus is coming for her, Elena goes to the tomb to give Katherine blood in exchange for the truth about the sun and moon curse. Through flashbacks to 1490, Katherine tells Elena about the child who was taken away from her, how she ruined Trevor and Rose’s lives, and how she turned into a vampire. Damon and Rose also try to get to the bottom of things by visiting Rose’s friend Slater, who is an encyclopedia of all things supernatural. While Damon asks Slater if there’s...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 9
After being kidnapped for the second time, Elena is brought to an old, abandoned mansion where she meets her kidnappers, Trevor and Rose. Trevor immediately tries to feed on Elena, and Rose slaps Elena so hard she does a 360 spin, so things don't look good for her. Luckily, Jeremy and Stefan figure out Elena is missing and Bonnie does a locator spell so Stefan and Damon can rescue their girlfriend. Before the Salvatores can get there, Elena eavesdrops on Trevor and Rose discussing their deal wit...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Katherine sends a message to the Salvatore brothers: hand over the moonstone tonight at the masquerade ball, or she will rip apart the town until it rains blood. But Katherine predicts that Stefan and Damon won’t hand the moonstone over without a fight, so she brings her very own Bennett witch for backup and keeps a few tricks up her sleeve. Katherine knows her boy toys well because the Salvatore brothers enlist Bonnie, Caroline, Alaric, and even Jeremy to put their plan into motion. Their plan?...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 7
You know Masquerade is that episode when there’s a whole episode about the set up for the masquerade party. Everyone in the show is involved in party prep, including Stefan and Mason. Mason is shocked to see that Stefan survived the last episode, but Stefan is even more shocked when Bonnie bumps into Mason and has a vision of him kissing “Elena.” Stefan regroups with Damon to tell him what Bonnie saw, and Damon updates Stefan on his and Jeremy’s scheme to get the moonstone. They all combine thei...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 6
A new day in Mystic Falls means a new event, and today’s event is the Historical Society Volunteer Picnic, which is the perfect opportunity for everyone to be in the same place to cause drama. This means Elena and Stefan can put on their best performances in their fake fight and Mason can prove to Sheriff Forbes that Stefan and Damon are vampires. Unfortunately for everyone, the classic vervain in a public drink supply trick works, proving Mason right. Liz and her deputies waste no time and go s...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 5
For a minute, this episode makes you think it's opening with a Steferine 1864 memory, but we quickly find out it's Stefan's Delena nightmare created by Katherine getting in Stefan's head. Despite the rude awakening, Stefan lets Katherine hang around the Salvatore House long enough for Stefan to vervain her and lock her in the basement. Across town, Damon plots to get to know Mason by convincing Alaric to convince Jenna to host a barbecue, where Caroline tells Elena all of the reasons she shouldn...
Nov 30, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 4
It’s time for another Delena roadtrip episode! This time, Damon, Elena, and their third wheel, Alaric go to Duke to look through Isobel’s research and see if Isobel has any information about werewolves. Poor Alaric, the vibes on the trip are so horrid since Elena obviously hasn’t forgiven Damon for killing Jeremy like a day ago. Thankfully, the trip isn’t a total bust, and the trio learns about the curse of the sun and the moon and that a werewolf bite is fatal to vampires. And wouldn’t you know...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 3
After being killed by Katherine, Caroline wakes up in transition and is immediately great at being a vampire in classic Caroline fashion. She completes the transition in record time, compels a nurse, and puts on a smokey eye so you know she’s really in her vamp era. While Caroline figures out how to get out of the hospital, Elena and Bonnie get the carnival ready and try to act like they’re just normal girls. Meanwhile, Mason and Tyler actually are just normal guys: they exercise, they exercise ...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Picking up right where we left off, John is down to six fingers, Jeremy may or may not be transitioning into a vampire, Damon thinks he and Elena kissed, and Caroline is in the hospital after the car crash. Eventually, Damon and Stefan realize that only one person could have caused so much drama: Katherine Pierce. At Mayor Lockwood’s wake the next day, Katherine continues to cause chaos and pretends to be Elena. Uncle Mason Lockwood also returns to attend the wake and talks to Tyler about his "i...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
We're back with a review of Season One! To refresh our memories, we recap this season's character arcs, villains, and couples. We highlight some of the best performances and outfits and choose our favorites, like the best song of the season, our favorite three consecutive episodes, and, of course, our favorite Stelena and Delena moments. We even give Matt a few shout-outs, surprisingly enough, so we really cover everything. Next week: Season Two Episode One | The Return Hosted on Acast. See acas...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Like Anna tells Jeremy in 1x17, there are only so many reasons to turn a vampire: to get someone to do your dirty work, for revenge, out of boredom, and because you love someone so much you want to spend eternity with them. In this special episode, we go through all of the vampires that we see turned in the series from the Originals to the Salvatores and discuss why they were turned and whether they fall into Anna’s categories. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 12, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Regardless of whether you’re Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah, you can’t deny there are so many parallels between The Summer I Turned Pretty and The Vampire Diaries. Not only is there a love triangle between the main character and two brothers in both series, but there are also obvious visual parallels like Conrad stepping in for Jeremiah in the season one finale and the infinity necklace. Most importantly, we debate which brother is most like Damon and which brother is most like Stefan. Regardless ...
Sep 14, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 23
It's finally Founder's Day—the perfect day for Damon to eat cotton candy and steal Stefan's girl and for the tomb vampires to exact their revenge on the founding families. Luckily, Uncle John has a plan to take out all of the tomb vampires, but of course, John doesn't stop at capturing the tomb vampires: he also gets Anna, Damon, and Mayor Lockwood. With Bonnie's help, Stefan rescues Damon, but the rest of the vampires and the mayor are done for. Back at the Gilbert house, Damon shares a nice mo...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 22
There are a lot of bad moms in Mystic Falls, but one of the worst, Isobel, finally comes into town. After threatening Alaric, Isobel meets with Elena to tell her to get the Gilbert device from Damon. When Elena doesn't immediately give it to her, Isobel breaks Matt's arm, kidnaps Jeremy, and makes her compelled cowboy and jazz singer beat up John. Even though John kind of deserved it, Bonnie "despells" the device and Elena hands it over to Isobel. Later on, Damon realizes John is Elena's father,...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In the third flashback episode of this season, Stefan relives how he and Damon died in 1864 and became vampires. While Stefan dries out in the Salvatore basement, Damon and Alaric team up again to get more information about John and the Gilbert device. Meanwhile, John uses his “Gilbert charm” (gross) on Pearl at the Grill to try to get the device from her. After Elena helps Stefan get through the day, Damon comes home and reveals to her the real reason he’s promised Stefan an eternity of misery....
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Leading up to the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, Stefan spirals further out of control and is robbing blood banks left and right. Caroline is also out for blood in a different way—she’s desperate to win Miss Mystic Falls. Later at the pageant, Damon tells Elena that Stefan is drinking human blood again, and Stefan loses control and basically kidnaps another pageant contestant. In Stefan’s absence, Damon steps in and escorts Elena to dance and share the intimacy of the near touch in what is probably ...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 19
After drinking Elena’s blood, Stefan struggles to not completely turn into a ripper and to hide his bloodlust from Damon and Elena. To make matters worse, Uncle John comes back into town and makes it clear that he knows more about what’s going on than anyone else. Later, at the millionth Founders’ Day event this year, Stefan actually has a little fun, Damon kills John, and John comes back to life. Tyler also makes out with Matt’s mom, but we were trying to forget that happened. This week: Season...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 18
