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Posted Nov 20th 2009 2:18AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E10) "Too bad I live alone. I'm at the Ramada watching pay-per-view all day eating everything in sight, including the housekeeping." - Logan, since there's no one at his home to invite him in
As you can see, I'm a little crazy for Paul Wesley and all those muscles, so there ya go. Here's
another one, in case you missed last week's episode, "History Repeating." He shows more and more skin with each episode.
We got lots more action and intrigue in this episode, involving Logan, the Sheriff, Caroline and of course, Elena, Damon and Stefan. And they certainly couldn't let the vampires-in-the-church storyline just drop, could they? Of course not. More after the jump.
Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries - The Turning Point
Posted Nov 13th 2009 3:34AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E09) I was pretty much riveted to this episode of
The Vampire Diaries all the way through, but especially at the end, when we learned a whole lot of stuff in the last few minutes. It was fun seeing the vamp brothers Stefan and Damon sort of buddy up, even if it wasn't really real. Given their long history, you have to think there must be some brotherly ... something there, even though Damon killed Stefan's BFF last week and then Stefan nearly killed Damon. Oh those kooky vampire brothers.
Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries - History Repeating
Posted Nov 6th 2009 2:08PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E08) "It's not every day a guy turns 162 years old." - Lexi to Stefan on his birthday
What?! Nooooo! They keep bringing in these great characters and then killing them off! Hopefully, they're just stashing the bodies somewhere for a mass resurrection at some point. And, by the way, I totally did not see that coming.
The Vampire Diaries started out great and continues to get better each week. It's so beautifully dark and gloomy. I love the Salvatore's gothic digs, and Stefan is showing considerable restraint at not offing his bad, bad brother Damon.
Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries - 162 Candles
Posted Oct 30th 2009 3:12PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E07) "So she's a vampire with issues?" - Elena to Stefan about Vicki
Well! In case you haven't watched this week's episode yet, I'll save the big spoiler for after the jump. Suffice to say that things are jumping in
The Vampire Diaries, and for some characters, that's not necessarily a good thing.
I continue to love the show and look forward to it every week (and was seriously bummed when it wasn't on last week!). In a sea of mediocre new shows (well, mediocre to me anyway), that IS a good thing.
Continue reading Review: The Vampire Diaries - Haunted
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 8:02AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
This vampire thing could be getting to the point of oversaturation. Bram Stoker is to blame for inventing the concept. However, vampire fans and those that frequent Hot Topic can rejoice because the CW has ordered a
full season of the freshman series The Vampire Diaries. This is opposed to the still-struggling revamp of
Melrose Place which has only had five additional episodes requested of it.
Between
True Blood,
The Vampire Diaries and the ever-immortal
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I still count despite being long off the air), you'd think television has had enough of our fanged friends. Perhaps other series should start involving vampires in order to boost ratings.
Continue reading More Vampire Diaries to be forthcoming
Posted Oct 16th 2009 5:47AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E06) "Everything you know and every belief that you have is about to change. Are you ready for that?" - Stefan to Elena
And to finish that thought ... "I'm a vampire." So Elena knows now; no more speculating or wondering. My first thought was that Elena knows that Stefan is a
good vampire. He even races to tell her: "I would never hurt you. You're safe with me." So why is she so freaked out? Because he's a vampire, of course, and who wouldn't be freaked out by that?
I'm loving
The Vampire Diaries.
Continue reading The Vampire Diaries: Lost Girls
Posted Oct 9th 2009 4:03AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E05) "I'm not going to be one of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy." - Elena to Jenna, about Stefan
Ok, well, we'll see about that. Something tells me that by the next episode or two, Elena's world will indeed stop spinning. And then start spinning wildly out of control. She already knows something's up. She already knows in the darkest part of her heart that Stefan is a vampire. She just needs him to confirm it.
Continue reading The Vampire Diaries: You're Undead to Me
Posted Oct 2nd 2009 5:10AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E04) "How do I fight the monster without becoming one myself?" - Stefan
I know
The Vampire Diaries has been taking a beating from some TV reviewers, but I'm actually loving it so far. A lot of it has to do with bad-vamp Damon, played so deliciously evil by Ian Somerhalder. He's manipulative and just plain scuzzy, but he's also really cute. That's a bad combo for impressionable girls.
At this point, it's hard to imagine that Elena would fall for any of Damon's tricks. Then again, he
did get her to believe that Stefan was actually the manipulative one, dating back to when the two brothers sparred over Katherine. Elena is either really, really stupid or she's being played by a master manipulator in Damon. Maybe a little of both.
Continue reading The Vampire Diaries: Family Ties
Posted Sep 26th 2009 12:27AM by Hemal Jhaveri
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
(S01E03) Why does every high school show have to do the obligatory football episode? Is this something that's still big for kids? Seriously, does this hierarchy of popularity still exist? Or are the writers just too old to know any better?
Anyway, this week Stefan tries out for the football team in a desperate attempt to not be so weird and creepy, and Elena, in an effort to get back to her "normal" life, goes back to cheerleading. That works for a few days, until Damon shows up and kills the history teacher/football coach Mr. Tanner. Yay for Damon!
Continue reading Vampire Diaries: Friday Night Bite
Posted Sep 18th 2009 3:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Subtle Subtitles, Reality-Free
If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption!
Last week's winner is Teresa with this:
"When I asked you to brings snacks to the party I meant chips."
This week's photo is that odd picture from The
MTV VMA's last weekend:
Posted Sep 12th 2009 12:02PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Ratings, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
It has vampires at a time when vampires are cool. It has teen angst. It's on the network that has low ratings to begin with (although they did beat ABC and Fox for that night, but they had repeats). It should come as no surprise that
The Vampire Diaries has set a
ratings record for its premiere on The CW.
I didn't watch the premiere (our review of it is
here). I'm at the age where I find the CW "teen angst" formula a bit painful to watch. For all that, the network can comfort itself with that fact that I am not the target market.
That formula is what made
Smallville not live up to its potential (and makes that show even less likely to continue after this season. They're not teenagers anymore). It is interesting how
The Vampire Diaries cast their leads from right out of
Smallville.
From what I've read, advance reviews have been poor for the show. What do you think? Does
The Vampire Diaries have some potential?
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 12:04PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Programming, Reality-Free
The networks have had a quiet summer, quietly introducing scripted bomb after scripted bomb, so they're certainly ready to jump into the new fall season. And It looks to be an interesting one. ABC is scheduling a two-hour block of new comedies on Wednesdays as the sitcom tries to make a comeback.
Even more risky is NBC handing 10:00 to Jay Leno every night of the week. Everyone's waiting to see how that one plays out. FOX is banking on huge positive buzz for
Glee to make it a hit, while ABC is hoping
FlashForward can pick up where
Lost is leaving off when it wraps its run this season.
To help you with it all, TV Squad has put together a handy calendar of all the premieres so you can schedule responsibly in this busy time of TV watching. Some nights have as many as twelve premieres scheduled, so you might need to invest in a few more DVRs to catch all your favorites; Monday's still look grim. Bookmark this page and you'll have it handy to help see you through.
Continue reading TV Squad's complete 2009-10 fall season premiere calendar
Posted Aug 26th 2009 6:31PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free
Cross promotions are not a new concept to TV heads, but this one cooked up by the folks behind the CW's
Vampire Diaries deserves a Peabody Award
. As
Brad mentioned earlier today,
The Vampire Diaries is being cross-promoted with the American Red Cross in which
the show is hosting its own blood drive.
What a great idea and a great cause! Just think of the other charitable promotions this will inspire other shows to tackle.
Continue reading Vampire Diaries' cross promotion could inspire more TV charities
Posted Aug 26th 2009 2:03PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free
I'm really surprised the folks behind
True Blood or
Twilight didn't think of this. The CW's new vampire teen drama,
The Vampire Diaries, is
working with the American Red Cross to promote the feeding of young, hungry vampires across the whole country by giving blood in high schools and colleges.
Okay, maybe the blood won't actually go to vampires (in fact, the promotion involves the tagline "Starve a vampire. Donate blood"). It is a good, thematic form of cross-promotion. The vampire market is stretched pretty thin nowadays, and anything done to distinguish one vampire show from another (that doesn't start with the word "Buffy") is probably a good thing.
Not knowing much about the show, it does seem like a copy of some of the concepts of
Twilight. But all vampire literature is just an homage to the concepts from Bram Stoker's
Dracula to begin with, so I guess it's all good.
Posted Aug 25th 2009 4:42PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Smallville, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl
The CW certainly seems to have embraced their new goal of pushing the entire network in a very "female" direction. They've scheduled their new fall preview special on Sunday, August 30 at 6:30 PM, smack between a special spotlighting the top ten moments from
The Tyra Banks Show and their red carpet coverage of the night's Daytime Emmy Awards.
That's nestled in a huge bed of estrogen from where I'm sitting. No wonder a show like
Reaper didn't make it if this is the new demographic The CW is seeking. The manliest shows on the network are
Supernatural and
Smallville, and both of those do well with the ladies, certainly better than Sock did. Other than that, it's
Gossip Girl,
90210,
The Vampire Diaries, America's Next Top Model -- how did this happen?
It's almost all teen dramas now, and it's definitely skewing female. They managed to abandon comedies and African-American featured shows in one fell swoop by canceling
Everybody Hates Chris and
The Game, and they dumped the hellishly fun
Reaper. All that's left is pretty people pouting. Is this what America wanted out of our fifth network?
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