Vampire Diaries Season Three Review

This season was my favorite… so far. Like with most shows, it gets better every time I watch it. My favorite character, Alaric, did end dying and that had me in tears. It still does. I knew it was coming (I watched Cult) but I still wasn’t ready for it. Basically, I need a new favorite character. Maybe Elijah, or Damon?

The pace of this season was very well done. Nothing felt too rushed and everything was portioned out well. I love the Originals and seeing so much more of them was great. They do take a while to get warmed up to, but once you do, you can totally tell why they got their own series.

I wouldn’t say there was one villain in this season. There were several, and Mommy Original was the biggest, baddest of them all, but in truth I think it was the circumstances and internal conflicts that served as the real “bad guys”. The romance is heating up (team Delena) and I must say I like where it’s going.

Overall, this season gets a strong 5 stars. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go that high, but, yeah, I think it deserves it. Can season four live up to those standards?

TV Review: The Vampire Diaries Season Two

This season was even better than the first.  It was mind-blowing awesome.  I feel like all the problems with pace were fixed, the characters matured and grew in ways I liked, the villains were dastardly and the plot was superb.  I can't wait for the next season!

My rating is 5 stars.












If you want an in-depth review of the whole season, or even just one episode, shoot me a comment and I'll get right on that.  I didn't want to spoil anything for people who haven't watched this season yet, but I have a lot I could say.

TV Review: The Vampire Diaries Season One

So, I just marathoned the whole first season (22 episodes) in six days.  That's right, six days.  Wow.  I'm both proud and disturbed by myself.  It was a sort of last ditch effort to watch something new before everything starts up again and my friend convinced me to watch this show.  Why haven't I watched it before?  I don't really know.  But I've been sucked in (pun intended) for good.

I actually read the books (the original four) a while back.  I can't really recall much from them except that none of them would have gotten more then three stars.  I do know that this show is different- better then the books- and am glad because the books had so much potential.  That potential is certainly reached through this show.

I'd definitely say this was PG-13 because there are several sex scenes.  They actually made me a little uncomfortable to watch and I'm not that squeamish.  You don't see anything, really, but you get the idea.

This is not one of those shows you want to binge watch.  It's not bad, so much as the way it's set up makes it a little hard to stomach at times.  There are time lapses between episodes that can span a couple days and that makes you feel like you've missed something when you watch it in quick succession.  At the end of the series the pace picks up and it's OK, but I really think I would have liked it even more if I watched it when every episode came out.

There are so many characters on this show I'm not going to talk about every single one of them.  There's Elena, who I didn't like much until she got onto the vampire idea (she just seemed so clueless... which I suppose was the point) and was always jealous of her hair.  (actually, I started calling this show "The Perfect Hair Show" because everyone always had perfect hair.)  Stefan is pretty sweet and for a while I was wavering between him and his brother, but in the end, I have to say I'm team Damon.  Damon is probably the most complicated character on the show, and the most interesting.  Three other favorites (in order) are Alaric (who's just damn awesome), Jeremy, and Caroline (who's a bit of an airhead but actually a pretty nice person; I hope she has a happy ending).

For a while they would throw a plot line up and then end it an episode later which I found aggravating, but once they left some plot lines alone and then tied them up much later I thought they had some pretty ingenious stories.  There were several cliffhangers I didn't see coming (season finale!) and was always pleasantly surprised by them. 

My goal is to catch up on the next three seasons before the fifth (and spin-off The Originals) start October third.  Wish me luck!

Rating: ****4 out of 5 stars****