That's Right: They're Vampires

The Vampire Diaries raced through the plots in its first season. Episodes usually ended on a cliffhanger, which would be quickly addressed in the next episode! Why is The Vampire Diaries just so darn watchable? It shouldn’t be: it’s basically a teen soap opera with all the emo-filled relationship drivel you get on shows like Gossip Girl or 90210. The fact there are vamps, werewolves and witches doesn’t really change things – they sleep around, fall in love and pine over their exes, just like everybody else. At times it’s hard to remember this is an SFX show… but then someone turns into a werewolf in a flurry of bone-crunching FX and everything’s cool again.

It’s The Vampire Diaries’ stupendously fast pace and shameless cliffhanger-mongering that keeps us coming back – particularly this season. There’s a ton of fun to be had with Elena’s evil vamp doppelganger, Katherine, and the head games she plays with the Salvatore brothers; boring bonehead Caroline gets bitten and ends up actually developing a personality; werewolves trot into town to snap at the vampires’ heels. Oh, and best of all, Damon is reassuringly Damon: the wittiest, naughtiest antihero we’ve seen in years. You may as well just watch for him.

The Vampire Diaries is legit. Like virtually all new shows, it takes some time to warm up, and the first batch of episodes are rife with high school melodrama, feeling a lot like…well, your usual CW show. But once the characters are established and the relationships are settled, the storytelling shifts into thriller status, building up an engaging mythology, while moving away from the teeny-bopper drama.

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