The Vampire Diaries - TV Episode Recaps & News

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Episode 23 Graduation

The Vampire Diaries Finale Recap: All’s Well That Ends Well … for Now Serious sobs.
Episode 22 The Walking Dead

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 12 The penultimate episodes of The Vampire Diaries are always crazy awesome to watch.
Episode 21 She’s Come Undone

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 11 Last night was a turning point on The Vampire Diaries for Elena.
Episode 20 The Originals

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Be Bright. Be Brilliant. Be Original. Last night, we took a little trip to New Orleans for the Originals’ backdoor pilot.
Episode 19 Pictures of You

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 10 Dances have always been a big deal in Mystic Falls, but this one topped them all.
Episode 18 American Gothic

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round 9 Last night’s episode was really The Vampire Diaries at its best.

Episode 17 Because the Night

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round 8 Okay, so the show has been tilted a bit on its axis.
Episode 16 Bring It On

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round 7 Last night’s episode was a welcome reprieve from the emotional torment we’ve suffered over the last few months.
Episode 15 Stand by Me

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round 6 The Vampire Diaries has been a roller coaster since day one, but this season has been especially intense.
Episode 14 Down the Rabbit Hole

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round 5 Our troop found the cure only to realize that there was only one dose.
Episode 13 Into the Wild

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 4 Is it just us, or did the show get super complicated all of a sudden?
Episode 12 A View to a Kill

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 3 Damon and Stefan communicating through a cell wall is pretty much how all of our fantasies begin.
Episode 11 Catch Me If You Can

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v Damon, Round Two This week, Damon was compelled by Kol to try to kill Jeremy … a lot.
Episode 10 After School Special

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v Damon, Round One In which we start recapping this show by focusing on a very important debate.

Episode 22 Home

The Vampire Diaries Season 5 Finale Recap: Come Back to Me This is going to be a long summer.
Episode 21 Promised Land

The Vampire Diaries Recap: It’s the End of the World As We Know It Who died?
Episode 20 What Lies Beneath

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Cabin Fever We were treated to a little old-school horror story with this week’s episode.
Episode 19 Man on Fire

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Enzo the Honorable Why aren’t we spending these final episodes bringing Stefan and Caroline together?
Episode 19 Resident Evil

The Vampire Diaries Recap: In Another Universe Last night, we returned from a few weeks off with Paul Wesley’s directorial debut!
Episode 17 Rescue Me

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Figuring Out Crazy Let’s talk about that crazy new witch.

Episode 16 While You Were Sleeping

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Spring Break … Woo-hoo! “David dumped my ass. At Señor Frogs, of all horrifying places.”
Episode 15 Gone Girl

The Vampire Diaries: I’ve Been Looking for You Forever For a while now, we’ve been wondering what the show was going to do with Katherine.
Episode 14 No Exit

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Bros Before Brunettes As much fun as it was seeing Katherine try to seduce Stefan, I don’t remember him being this oblivious.
Episode 13 Total Eclipse of the Heart

The Vampire Diaries Recap: I Won’t Dance (But Ask Me) Last night’s episode of The Vampire Diaries was a little like a nineties horror flick.
Episode 12 The Devil Inside

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Is It Me You’re Looking For? The days of Team Stefan versus Team Damon are over.
Episode 11 500 Years of Solitude

The Vampire Diaries Recap: We’re All In This Together Last night, The Vampire Diaries celebrated its 100th episode, and so many familiar faces came back to grace the screen.
Episode 10 Fifty Shades of Grayson

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Redemption ETA? This Augustine/vampire testing stuff sometimes makes no sense.
Episode 9 The Cell

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Revenge Is Patient This Augustine story line is very good, and very brave, and very risky.
Episode 8 Dead Man on Campus

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Dead Man on Campus Last night was our favorite kind of TVD episode. It was fun, but with depth and heart.
Episode 7 Death and the Maiden

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Death and the Maiden I, like any sane, rational human being, welcome the presence of Paul Wesley’s face.
Episode 6 Handle With Care

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 19 Everyone has the same face now.
Episode 5 Monster’s Ball

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 18 We really only need one word today: Katherine.
Episode 4 For Whom the Bell Tolls

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 17 Last night’s The Vampire Diaries was Throwback Thursday at its finest.
Episode 3 Original Sin

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 16 Way before vampires, men were falling in love with Nina Dobrev.
Episode 2 True Lies

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan vs. Damon, Round 15 — Fun While It Lasted “Turn off your phone.”
Episode 1 I Know What You Did Last Summer

Vampire Diaries Recap: Stefan v. Damon, Round 14 Stefan versus Damon, Round 14.

Episode 22 I’m Thinking of You All The While

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Good-bye, Dear Friend Of COURSE we were always going to end up here. But none of us could have possibly seen it coming.
Episode 21 I’ll Wed You in the Golden Summertime

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Meet Me at the Altar We’re never allowed to be this happy on TVD.
Episode 20 I’d Leave My Happy Home for You

The Vampire Diaries Recap: The Upside of Eternity Is Damon making a big mistake?
Episode 19 Because

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Let’s Be Human TVD hasn’t always done a great job of keeping the stakes of death, but you know what it has never let become unimportant? Life.
Episode 18 I Never Could Love Like That

The Vampire Diaries Recap: What If? We don’t know how Elena’s story will end, but we do know our lives will not be the same without her.
Episode 17 A Bird in a Gilded Cage

The Vampire Diaries Recap: The Mother Lode Who is getting that cure?!

Episode 16 The Downward Spiral

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Take Out Her Heart Bonnie’s back, and she’s glad to be rid of her ’90s flannel. So are we.
Episode 15 Let Her Go

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Get Through Today In which Tyler asks the most valid question.
Episode 14 Stay

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Good-bye, Training Wheels Well, it happened.
Episode 13 “The Day I Tried to Live”
Episode 12 Prayer for the Dying

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Merge With Me Elena has zero chill and Luke still needs to cut his hair.
Episode 11 Woke Up With a Monster

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Love Is Blind It’s good to be back.
Episode 10 Christmas Through Your Eyes

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Time to Go Home It’s a TVD mid-season finale, which means three things: blood, death, and … holiday cheer.
Episode 9 I Alone

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Deal With the Devil Alaric and a room full of candles. Put on some mood music and we’re into this plan.
Episode 8 Fade Into You

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Friendsgiving Just when you think you have this show figured out …
Episode 7 Do You Remember the First Time?

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Kiss the Rain You just want to talk about the Delena Rain Kiss, dont you.
Episode 6 The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Ask Me to Remember This wasn’t the epic reunion you were looking for, Delena people.
Episode 5 The World Has Turned and Left Me Here

The Vampire Diaries Recap: My Brother Came Back Stefan in a tank top is how we should open every episode.
Episode 4 Black Hole Sun

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Bring Back the ’90s No caroline in this episode?
Episode 3 Welcome to Paradise

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Paved Paradise and Put Up a Walmart Shirtless Jeremny is carrying this season.
Episode 2 Yellow Ledbetter

The Vampire Diaries Recap: When the Day Is Long — Hang On The often-unsung power of this show is its ability to do relationships.
Episode 1 I’ll Remember

The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Premiere Recap They’re ba-a-a-ack. Finally.

Episode 22 Gods and Monsters

The Vampire Diaries Recap: I Promise We got an almost-reunion, a few almost-deaths, a new big bad to fear.
Episode 21 Requiem for a Dream

The Vampire Diaries Recap: A Waking Nightmare Kat Graham rocked it this episode.
Episode 20 Kill ’Em All

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Her Burden Operation: Save Bonnie Bennett is a go, people!
Episode 19 Somebody That I Used to Know

The Vampire Diaries Recap: No Matter What Happens We’re in the home stretch, fang family.
Episode 18 One Way or Another

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Soul Searching Stefan and Damon are racing against a ticking clock to solve a terrible body-snatching snafu.
Episode 17 I Went to the Woods

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Playing Hero Will the real Stefan Salvatore please stand up?

Episode 16 Days of Future Past

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Next Time It Will Be Different Watching tonight’s episode, my heart stopped at least seven times.
Episode 15 I Would for You

The Vampire Diaries Recap: You Hurt Me Rayna has nothing, and no one, to lose, which may make her the most dangerous Big Bad we’ve met yet.
Episode 14 Moonlight on the Bayou

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Hello, Love It’s the crossover event we’ve all been waiting for.
Episode 13 This Woman’s Work

The Vampire Diaries Recap: What Being a Hero Costs Tonight’s episode was a reminder that there’s a reason they call it labor.
Episode 12 Postcards From the Edge

The Vampire Diaries Recap: What Doesn’t Kill You What matters is that Damon thinks Elena’s dead, which is where we start our recap.
Episode 11 Things We Lost in the Fire

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Drowning Together It will surprise no one that Elena gets hurt when Damon can’t confront his feelings. Like always.
Episode 10 Hell is Other People

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Bad From the Beginning Hats off to everyone for TVD’s first concept episode.
Episode 9 Ice Cold

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Personal Hell Ugh, SantaCon.
Episode 8 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

The Vampire Diaries Recap: You Made Your Bed Lily has a lot of explaining to do.
Episode 7 Mommie Dearest

The Vampire Diaries Recap: What Will You Fight For? Happy Salvaturkey day, everyone!
Episode 6 Best Served Cold

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Blood and Revenge I’m pretty sure this whole three-years-into-the-future thing is one big fever dream.
Episode 5 Live Through This

The Vampire Diaries Recap: The Train to Crazy Town Is TVD about to rename itself Zombies Invade Mystic Falls?
Episode 4 I Carry Your Heart With Me

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Hostages and Hearts Between the Steroline romance, the intriguing flash-forwards, and the return to season-one levels of blood and gore, I’m really loving this season.
Episode 3 Age of Innocence

The Vampire Diaries Recap: You Promised Me Is this the first love of Stefan’s life?
Episode 2 Never Let Me Go

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Don’t Let Her Fracture Us Stefan, let’s be real: You’re definitely opposed to random hot make-out sessions.
Episode 1 Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take

The Vampire Diaries Recap: Grief Is Bloody Welcome back to Mystic Falls — er, Brooklyn.

Episode 16 I Was Feeling Epic

The Vampire Diaries Was a Far Better Show Than It Needed to Be It was a teen drama, angsty and full of chiseled hunks. It could have floated, but it refused to.

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