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The Vampire Diaries (2009)

Drama · Fantasy · Horror

The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.

IMDb rating
7.7 (383,330 votes)
Seasons
8
Streaming (US)
HBO Max · Peacock
Language
EN
Type
TV series
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Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

8.20 avg 22 episodes 7.8 → 9.2 42 min avg

  • Big finale
Ep 1: 7.8 · 5,124 votesEp 2: 7.5 · 3,621 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 3,261 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 3,055 votesEp 5: 8.2 · 3,015 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 3,065 votesEp 7: 8.2 · 2,869 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 2,883 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 2,756 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,767 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 2,773 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 2,638 votesEp 13: 8.3 · 2,645 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 2,708 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 2,539 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 2,505 votesEp 17: 8.6 · 2,633 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 2,528 votesEp 19: 8.3 · 2,759 votesEp 20: 8.2 · 2,573 votesEp 21: 8.4 · 2,635 votesEp 22: 9.2 · 3,797 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Pilot7.85,124
2The Night of the Comet7.53,621
3Friday Night Bites7.93,261
4Family Ties7.93,055
5You're Undead to Me8.23,015
6Lost Girls8.43,065
7Haunted8.22,869
8162 Candles8.32,883
9History Repeating8.12,756
10The Turning Point8.32,767
11Bloodlines8.22,773
12Unpleasantville8.12,638
13Children of the Damned8.32,645
14Fool Me Once8.62,708
15A Few Good Men8.02,539
16There Goes the Neighborhood7.82,505
17Let the Right One In8.62,633
18Under Control8.12,528
19Miss Mystic Falls8.32,759
20Blood Brothers8.22,573
21Isobel8.42,635
22Founder's Day9.23,797

Season 2 (2010)

8.53 avg 22 episodes 8.9 → 8.9 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.9 · 3,197 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 2,472 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 2,411 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 2,377 votesEp 5: 8.6 · 2,392 votesEp 6: 8.6 · 2,387 votesEp 7: 9.0 · 2,891 votesEp 8: 8.8 · 2,724 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 2,406 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,199 votesEp 11: 8.4 · 2,276 votesEp 12: 8.4 · 2,421 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 2,163 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 2,189 votesEp 15: 8.3 · 2,177 votesEp 16: 8.5 · 2,173 votesEp 17: 8.3 · 2,183 votesEp 18: 8.7 · 2,324 votesEp 19: 8.8 · 2,526 votesEp 20: 8.7 · 2,305 votesEp 21: 9.1 · 2,776 votesEp 22: 8.9 · 2,822 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Return8.93,197
2Brave New World8.42,472
3Bad Moon Rising8.32,411
4Memory Lane8.12,377
5Kill or Be Killed8.62,392
6Plan B8.62,387
7Masquerade9.02,891
8Rose8.82,724
9Katerina8.52,406
10The Sacrifice8.32,199
11By the Light of the Moon8.42,276
12The Descent8.42,421
13Daddy Issues8.12,163
14Crying Wolf8.02,189
15The Dinner Party8.32,177
16The House Guest8.52,173
17Know Thy Enemy8.32,183
18The Last Dance8.72,324
19Klaus8.82,526
20The Last Day8.72,305
21The Sun Also Rises9.12,776
22As I Lay Dying8.92,822

Season 3 (2011)

8.49 avg 22 episodes 8.5 → 9.4 42 min avg

  • Big finale
  • Rebound
Ep 1: 8.5 · 2,998 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 2,410 votesEp 3: 8.7 · 2,549 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 2,198 votesEp 5: 9.1 · 2,814 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 2,246 votesEp 7: 8.5 · 2,279 votesEp 8: 8.7 · 2,318 votesEp 9: 8.9 · 2,593 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,218 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 2,085 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 2,110 votesEp 13: 8.6 · 2,244 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 2,279 votesEp 15: 8.3 · 2,170 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 2,025 votesEp 17: 7.9 · 1,968 votesEp 18: 8.4 · 2,094 votesEp 19: 8.6 · 2,579 votesEp 20: 8.4 · 2,139 votesEp 21: 8.6 · 2,116 votesEp 22: 9.4 · 4,737 votes
Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Birthday8.52,998
2The Hybrid8.42,410
3The End of the Affair8.72,549
4Disturbing Behavior8.32,198
5The Reckoning9.12,814
6Smells Like Teen Spirit8.42,246
7Ghost World8.52,279
8Ordinary People8.72,318
9Homecoming8.92,593
10The New Deal8.32,218
11Our Town8.22,085
12The Ties That Bind8.22,110
13Bringing Out the Dead8.62,244
14Dangerous Liaisons8.62,279
15All My Children8.32,170
1619127.82,025
17Break on Through7.91,968
18The Murder of One8.42,094
19Heart of Darkness8.62,579
20Do Not Go Gentle8.42,139
21Before Sunset8.62,116
22The Departed9.44,737

Season 4 (2012)

8.37 avg 23 episodes 8.7 → 9.1 42 min avg

  • Big finale
  • Rebound
Ep 1: 8.7 · 3,452 votesEp 2: 8.7 · 2,527 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 2,155 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 2,147 votesEp 5: 8.2 · 1,978 votesEp 6: 8.2 · 2,098 votesEp 7: 8.7 · 2,672 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 2,097 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 2,144 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,084 votesEp 11: 7.9 · 1,879 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 1,964 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,892 votesEp 14: 8.5 · 1,971 votesEp 15: 8.7 · 2,154 votesEp 16: 7.6 · 1,904 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 1,772 votesEp 18: 8.4 · 1,901 votesEp 19: 8.2 · 1,868 votesEp 20: 8.6 · 2,438 votesEp 21: 8.3 · 1,823 votesEp 22: 8.6 · 2,018 votesEp 23: 9.1 · 3,039 votes
Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Growing Pains8.73,452
2Memorial8.72,527
3The Rager8.32,155
4The Five8.32,147
5The Killer8.21,978
6We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes8.22,098
7My Brother's Keeper8.72,672
8We'll Always Have Bourbon Street8.32,097
9O Come, All Ye Faithful8.52,144
10After School Special8.32,084
11Catch Me If You Can7.91,879
12A View to a Kill8.51,964
13Into the Wild8.01,892
14Down the Rabbit Hole8.51,971
15Stand by Me8.72,154
16Bring It On7.61,904
17Because the Night8.01,772
18American Gothic8.41,901
19Pictures of You8.21,868
20The Originals8.62,438
21She's Come Undone8.31,823
22The Walking Dead8.62,018
23Graduation9.13,039

Season 5 (2013)

8.01 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 8.9 42 min avg

  • Big finale
  • Rebound
Ep 1: 8.2 · 2,726 votesEp 2: 7.8 · 1,866 votesEp 3: 8.2 · 1,929 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 1,839 votesEp 5: 7.8 · 1,734 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,712 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 1,706 votesEp 8: 7.7 · 1,656 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 1,679 votesEp 10: 7.8 · 1,660 votesEp 11: 8.6 · 2,219 votesEp 12: 7.8 · 1,630 votesEp 13: 7.7 · 1,564 votesEp 14: 7.8 · 1,542 votesEp 15: 8.6 · 1,827 votesEp 16: 7.7 · 1,559 votesEp 17: 7.9 · 1,492 votesEp 18: 7.8 · 1,567 votesEp 19: 7.8 · 1,459 votesEp 20: 7.6 · 1,454 votesEp 21: 8.5 · 1,765 votesEp 22: 8.9 · 2,623 votes
Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1I Know What You Did Last Summer8.22,726
2True Lies7.81,866
3Original Sin8.21,929
4For Whom the Bell Tolls8.11,839
5Monster's Ball7.81,734
6Handle with Care7.91,712
7Death and the Maiden8.01,706
8Dead Man on Campus7.71,656
9The Cell8.11,679
10Fifty Shades of Grayson7.81,660
11500 Years of Solitude8.62,219
12The Devil Inside7.81,630
13Total Eclipse of the Heart7.71,564
14No Exit7.81,542
15Gone Girl8.61,827
16While You Were Sleeping7.71,559
17Rescue Me7.91,492
18Resident Evil7.81,567
19Man on Fire7.81,459
20What Lies Beneath7.61,454
21Promised Land8.51,765
22Home8.92,623

Season 6 (2014)

8.12 avg 22 episodes 7.7 → 8.8 42 min avg

  • Big finale
Ep 1: 7.7 · 1,952 votesEp 2: 8.3 · 1,782 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 1,605 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 1,538 votesEp 5: 8.6 · 1,816 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,551 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 1,627 votesEp 8: 8.2 · 1,498 votesEp 9: 8.0 · 1,412 votesEp 10: 7.9 · 1,443 votesEp 11: 7.9 · 1,453 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 1,414 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,408 votesEp 14: 8.3 · 1,589 votesEp 15: 8.7 · 1,782 votesEp 16: 8.4 · 1,704 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 1,405 votesEp 18: 7.7 · 1,356 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 1,344 votesEp 20: 7.9 · 1,369 votesEp 21: 8.5 · 1,610 votesEp 22: 8.8 · 2,228 votes
Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1I'll Remember7.71,952
2Yellow Ledbetter8.31,782
3Welcome to Paradise7.91,605
4Black Hole Sun7.91,538
5The World Has Turned and Left Me Here8.61,816
6The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get7.91,551
7Do You Remember the First Time?8.11,627
8Fade Into You8.21,498
9I Alone8.01,412
10Christmas Through Your Eyes7.91,443
11Woke Up with a Monster7.91,453
12Prayer for the Dying8.11,414
13The Day I Tried to Live8.01,408
14Stay8.31,589
15Let Her Go8.71,782
16The Downward Spiral8.41,704
17A Bird in a Gilded Cage8.01,405
18I Could Never Love Like That7.71,356
19Because7.91,344
20I'd Leave My Happy Home for You7.91,369
21I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime8.51,610
22I'm Thinking of You All the While8.82,228

Season 7 (2015)

8.05 avg 22 episodes 8.1 → 8.1 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 1,709 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 1,383 votesEp 3: 8.0 · 1,334 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 1,338 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 1,297 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 1,278 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 1,255 votesEp 8: 8.2 · 1,285 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 1,319 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 1,754 votesEp 11: 7.7 · 1,231 votesEp 12: 7.9 · 1,206 votesEp 13: 8.3 · 1,250 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 1,418 votesEp 15: 8.2 · 1,201 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 1,293 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 1,241 votesEp 18: 7.7 · 1,116 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 1,127 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 1,110 votesEp 21: 8.0 · 1,169 votesEp 22: 8.1 · 1,354 votes
Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take8.11,709
2Never Let Me Go8.01,383
3Age of Innocence8.01,334
4I Carry Your Heart with Me8.01,338
5Live Through This8.11,297
6Best Served Cold8.11,278
7Mommie Dearest8.11,255
8Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me8.21,285
9Cold as Ice8.11,319
10Hell Is Other People8.71,754
11Things We Lost in the Fire7.71,231
12Postcards from the Edge7.91,206
13This Woman's Work8.31,250
14Moonlight on the Bayou8.61,418
15I Would for You8.21,201
16Days of Future Past7.81,293
17I Went to the Woods8.11,241
18One Way or Another7.71,116
19Somebody That I Used to Know7.61,127
20Kill 'Em All7.71,110
21Requiem for a Dream8.01,169
22Gods and Monsters8.11,354

Season 8 (2016)

8.17 avg 16 episodes 8.2 → 9.3 42 min avg

  • Slow burn
  • Big finale
  • Rebound
Ep 1: 8.2 · 1,842 votesEp 2: 7.8 · 1,346 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 1,284 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 1,251 votesEp 5: 7.7 · 1,204 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,212 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 1,206 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 1,206 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 1,167 votesEp 10: 8.5 · 1,424 votesEp 11: 8.9 · 1,785 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 1,233 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,206 votesEp 14: 8.7 · 1,523 votesEp 15: 8.7 · 1,559 votesEp 16: 9.3 · 4,803 votes
Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Hello, Brother8.21,842
2Today Will Be Different7.81,346
3You Decided That I Was Worth Saving7.91,284
4An Eternity of Misery7.91,251
5Coming Home Was a Mistake7.71,204
6Detoured on Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell7.91,212
7The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You7.81,206
8We Have History Together7.51,206
9The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch7.81,167
10Nostalgia's a Bitch8.51,424
11You Made a Choice to Be Good8.91,785
12What Are You?8.11,233
13The Lies Will Catch Up to You8.01,206
14It's Been a Hell of a Ride8.71,523
15We're Planning a June Wedding8.71,559
16I Was Feeling Epic9.34,803

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