The Rippah Diaries

While looking for the Original witch’s necklace for Klaus, Gloria gets glimpses of Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie getting ready for the Founder’s Cookout. She of course has no idea who the girls are, but unfortunately, the images are enough for her to realize that Stefan is hiding something, so she decides to use some “old school voodoo” (torture) to get the truth. Just as she realizes the doppelgänger is alive, Katherine stops Gloria’s spell and saves Stefan. Back in Mystic Falls, Bill Forbes causes problems for the Council and Alaric tells Damon not to start any sort of relationship with Elena, which Damon deals with by snapping Alaric’s neck. After that he leaves town with Katherine, just as Klaus arrives in Mystic Falls to uncover Stefan's secrets.

This week: Season 3 Episode 4 | Disturbing Behavior

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To get in touch with a witch that can help with the hybrid plan, Klaus brings Stefan to Chicago, which also happens to be where Stefan spent most of his ripper days. At the witch’s bar, Gloria’s, Stefan finds a photograph of him and his bestie from the 1920s. Through 20s flashbacks, we see why Klaus wanted Stefan to come along with him in the first place and we get our first glimpse of Rebekah. Katherine is of course not far behind, and she tips off Damon, who grabs Elena for a road trip to once again try to rescue Stefan. Meanwhile in Mystic Falls, Bill tortures Caroline until Liz frees her with the help of Tyler and a warning shot. Back in Chicago, Elena reads Stefan’s journals and begs him one last time to come home, but unfortunately Stefan doesn’t want to be saved.

This week: Season 3 Episode 3 | The End of the Affair

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With Klaus and his partner-in-crime off to the Smoky Mountains to create more hybrids, Elena, Alaric, and Damon go on a road trip to try to bring Stefan home. Meanwhile, in Mystic Falls, Jeremy asks Matt to help him with a seance to contact Vicki. Tyler spends his day looking for Caroline after she snuck out right after their hookup but eventually realizes that Carol knows Caroline is a vampire and he decides to reveal his secret to her. Back in Tennessee, Stefan saves Damon from one of the werewolves that Klaus was trying to turn, which gets Damon back on board with the plan to save his brother. Unfortunately, Klaus starts to wonder why none of his hybrid experiments are working if he did everything right, even killing the doppelgänger.

This week: Season 3 Episode 2 | The Hybrid

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Months have passed since Stefan went off with Klaus, and it’s now Elena’s 18th birthday. That of course means Caroline is going to throw her a party, even though all Elena wants is to know that Stefan is alive. And while Elena has spent all summer trying to figure out how to get Stefan to come home, Caroline and Tyler have become besties, Jeremy is still seeing the ghosts of girlfriends past, and Damon has been secretly tracking Stefan and Klaus’s trail of bodies. He finally gets a good lead when he and Alaric go to Tennessee where Stefan and Klaus are looking for a werewolf. Luckily, Damon makes it back from the trip to Tennessee just in time to give Elena back her necklace as her birthday gift. But while everyone in Mystic Falls enjoys the party, Stefan kills our fave, Andie Starr, in front of Damon, and Elena finds all of Damon’s research on Stefan. Unfortunately, Damon has to tell her to not get her hopes up because all of the bodies he’s been tracking were left by Stefan, not Klaus. Happy birthday, Elena - your boyfriend is a serial killer. That’s almost enough for Elena to give up all hope, but just as she’s about to go to bed, she gets a call from Stefan (queue A Drop in the Ocean), granting her wish that to know he’s alive.

This week: Season 3 Episode 1 The Birthday

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Because we love you guys so much and wish we could make you all cohosts, we decided to turn the mic over to you and answer all of your questions about The Vampire Diaries! Your questions covered everything from whether we think Damon and Liz would have been a good ship to what we would change about the ending of the show to what we think of Bonnie’s OBVIOUS stunt double in Season One. We even answered some questions about ourselves like what other shows we like and whether we prefer the Twilight soundtrack over the TVD soundtrack. Basically if you asked it, we answered it.

Huge thank you to everyone who submitted questions and thank you to our 1K YouTube subscribers!

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As promised, we’re finally devoting an entire episode to the humanity switch. We look at all of the reasons why characters like Stefan, Damon, and Enzo turn their emotions off and how they eventually get them back on. We also realized that so many iconic moments come from a vampire’s no humanity arc, like Damon killing Matt to get Elena to turn it back on and Caroline burning the letter from Liz (we know you know the TikTok audio: BURN IT). And let’s not forget the vampire that inspired us to even do this episode: Isobel. We still can’t agree on what we make of her, but we do agree on a few things, like every humanity-less vampire will do anything to avoid getting their emotions turned back on.

We also want to hear from you! Call (470) 205-4958 to share your theories and ask us questions that we’ll listen to and discuss on our next special episode!

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For every character there is to love on The Vampire Diaries, there are a few to hate. While the list mostly includes annoying villains, useless supernaturals, and guest stars there are two characters in the main cast that are well known for annoying the fan base. You already know we’re talking about Matt Donovan and Elena Gilbert. But is Matt hated because he’s boring or because he’s a terrible boyfriend to Caroline? Is Elena hated because she’s a pick-me or because she switched from Stefan to Damon? In this special episode, we talk about the main reasons why people hate these two and whether we actually hate Matt and Elena.

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Before we get into Season 3 in a few weeks, we of course have to recap Season 2! This week, we’re looking back at the main characters, the villains, and all of the great Season 2 side characters. We’re also going to talk about all of the highs of the season, like best performances, favorite songs, best three episode run, and favorite Delena and Stelena moments. We also go over a few of the lows of the season (*cough cough* the Jules/werewolves arc) and what we would do differently if we wrote Season 2. We also wrap up Season 2 like we wrap up every episode and pick the best songs, quotes, and most out of pocket moments of Season 2.

This week: The Vampire Diaries Season 2 Recap

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Put on your PJs, grab your Brothers Bond Bourbon or your Fresh Vine Wine, and get ready to slumber it with the Rippah Girls! This week, we're having a girls night and playing TVD Trivia hosted by Producer Shea. With 90 questions created by Shea and 10 listener-submitted questions, we'll see who really knows The Vampire Diaries the best. You can even play along with us if you can pause fast enough or somehow blurt out the answers quicker than we did. With trivia categories including songs, quotes, Season 1, and Season 2, you might even want to listen to some past episodes to brush up on your trivia before listening. Join us this week for some drinks, trivia, and LOTS of laughs!

Special thanks to Producer Shea for coming up with 90 trivia questions and reviewing all of your submitted questions!

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With the werewolf bite getting worse, Damon is ready to give up, but of course, Stefan can’t help but try to save him. The spirits in the old witch house reveal that Klaus will have the cure, so Stefan goes to strike a bargain while Alaric watches a sickly Damon. All goes well until Sheriff Forbes shows up with absolutely no plan and lets Damon out of the cellar. He immediately goes looking for Elena at the town square Gone with the Wind screening but finds Jeremy instead. Just as the two go into the Grill, Liz comes in, guns blazing, and shoots Jeremy, killing him. Bonnie and Alaric are determined to save him, so they take Jeremy’s body back to the witch house to try a resurrection spell. With the Jeremy drama as a distraction, Damon escapes again, and as he’s wandering through the square seeing visions of Katherine in 1864, Elena finds him and helps him get back to the Salvatore house. While Damon gets worse, Stefan tries to get Klaus to hand over the cure by chugging blood bags and embracing his true rippah self. Klaus finally agrees to let Katherine take his blood to Damon, and right before she arrives with the cure, Delena have so many tender moments and share their first kiss! So much to unpack now that Damon is going to survive, Jeremy is seeing the ghosts of girlfriends past, and Klaus has revealed his storage unit full of daggered Originals. But we’ll get to that in Season 3.

This week: Season 2 Episode 22 | As I Lay Dying

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Now that Jenna has woken up, Elena explains to her that she’s in transition and Jenna realizes that she’s the vampire Klaus plans to sacrifice with the doppelgänger. With the addition of Jules as the werewolf, Klaus has all three goddesses needed to begin the ritual. With the sacrifice underway, Bonnie and Jeremy spend most of the night looking for a way to keep Elena human and end up binding Uncle John’s life force to Elena’s. Meanwhile, Stefan finally asks the question we’ve all been wondering: can Elijah really kill his brother? Elijah tells Stefan more Originals lore and reveals he wants revenge because Klaus threw all of his daggered siblings to sea. That’s good enough for Stefan, so the plan is on. As planned, Bonnie arrives right as Klaus becomes a true hybrid and starts a spell to weaken him just enough for Elijah to kill him. And just as Elijah gets his hand around Klaus’s heart, Klaus promises to reunite him with their siblings if Elijah doesn’t kill him. Bonnie and Stefan plead with him to go through with the plan, but Elijah chooses family above all else and leaves with Klaus. In the morning, everyone attends Jenna and John’s funeral, where Damon tells Stefan that Tyler bit him.

This week: Season 2 Episode 21 | The Sun Also Rises

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It’s finally the full moon, which means Klaus is planning to break the sun and moon curse tonight. Elena and Stefan are willing to go along with the sacrifice and hope that Elijah’s magical elixir will bring Elena back to life, but Damon is not on board with that plan. In classic Damon fashion, he lashes out and feeds Elena his blood, almost guaranteeing that she will come back, but as a vampire that will hate him for an eternity. So Elena and Stefan go for a hike to spend one last human day together and talk about what Elena is feeling. Meanwhile, Klaus’s witches gather all the “ingredients” needed to break the curse by luring Tyler back to town and kidnapping him and Caroline. Eventually, Damon realizes how badly he messed up and spends the day trying to postpone the ritual for another month. After asking Klaus nicely if he would mind postponing, Damon moves on to Plan B: rescue Caroline and Tyler. The rescue mission is mostly a success, thanks to Matt “Shoot First, Ask Questions Later” Donovan showing up, but Klaus is ten steps ahead: he knows to have a backup werewolf and vampire. So, as soon as Elena gets back from the hike, Klaus takes her to the quarry, where she finds out who the backup vampire is. Damon is confused why it isn't him until Katherine reveals that Tyler bit him during the rescue mission, so he’s as good as dead anyway.

This week: Season 2 Episode 20 | The Last Day

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Elena and the newly undaggered Elijah spend the day together so Elena can prove she’s trustworthy and so Elijah can tell her about the last time Klaus tried to break the sun and moon curse in the 1400s. Through flashbacks, Elijah tells the story of how he and Klaus met Katherine, and he makes three huge reveals about Klaus and the curse. We also see that Elijah has incredible chemistry with both Elena in the present day and Katherine in 1492, but I mean let’s face it, no one is surprised. Meanwhile, Jenna comes back to Mystic Falls only to find the Gilbert house is empty, and only Stefan will answer her calls. So, he comes over to fill her in on what’s been going on, only to find that Alaric/Klaus beat him there and is about to tell Jenna everything. Damon decides to go rogue while all this goes down, so he and Andie pay a little visit to Katherine, who is still trapped in Alaric’s apartment. Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for, in the very last few moments of the episode, the witches put Klaus back into his body, and we get to see present-day Klaus.

This week: Season 2 Episode 19 | Klaus

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It’s time for another decade dance: the 60s. Klaus continues to possess Alaric’s body, and with help from Katherine, he is ready to act as our favorite history teacher and taunt Elena. As always, Elena tries to pretend everything is normal, which of course means she and Bonnie and Stefan are finally going to school. Klaus, teaching history as Alaric, lays eyes on his doppelgänger and uses the other students to tell Elena to save the last dance tonight. So of course, the whole squad agrees to go to the dance with the plan to use Bonnie as their not-so-secret weapon to kill Klaus. After posing as Alaric to learn all of this, Klaus plans to provoke Bonnie into using all of her magic, which will kill her. At the dance, Klaus gets Elena and Bonnie away from the others and reveals who he is. The girls get away from him and find Damon who comes up with a new plan with Bonnie. She goes to fight Klaus alone and before Elena can stop her, the lights explode and spark and Bonnie falls to the ground, not breathing. After the dance, Damon reveals that Bonnie faked her own death so she could stay in hiding and become their secret weapon again. Unwilling to let Bonnie risk her own life, Elena decides to look for another option. And what better person to help her out than Elijah?

This week: Season 2 Episode 18 | The Last Dance

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After stopping by the Gilbert house to ruin Jenna and Alaric’s relationship, Isobel convinces John that she’s trying to help Elena. John is blinded by love and believes her, but Elena and Stefan are skeptical. Rightfully so, because Isobel immediately meets up with Katherine to tell her that she made a deal with Klaus to save Katherine’s life in exchange for the doppelgänger and the moonstone. Katherine is of course all in for that plan, so she goes looking for the moonstone and finds it stashed in Damon's soap. After Elena’s third kidnapping, Isobel reveals that she betrayed Katherine and that she was the doppelgänger Klaus wanted. Eventually, Elena and Isobel arrive at the cemetery where Isobel’s tombstone is and Klaus’s witch tells Isobel that her job is done and she’s free to go. Though Elena gets to go home and live her life, she and Stefan realize that Klaus is letting her live for now because he knows Elena will just go along with the sacrifice when the time comes. Not all hope is lost though: while Isobel was kidnaping Elena and betraying Katherine, Damon and Jeremy were helping Bonnie harness the power of the witches that were burned in Mystic Falls, officially making Bonnie their secret weapon to kill Klaus.

This week: Season 2 Episode 17 | Know Thy Enemy

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Now that Katherine has manipulated her way out of the tomb, she’s sticking around the Salvatore house to flirt with Stefan and Damon and antagonize Elena. And with Elijah now out of the picture, Stefan decides Team Save Elena should try to get Luka and Dr. Martin on their side, so he and Bonnie meet with the Martins at the Grill to plead their case. But Dr. Martin knows his best bet is just undaggering Elijah, so he astral projects Luka to rescue Elijah from the cellar of the Salvatore house. We all know how that tragically ends, which sends Dr. Martin on a rampage to find Elena. Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, and Jenna are having girl’s night at the Grill, where Caroline decides to pour her heart out to Matt by jumping on stage and singing with the live band. Thankfully, Caroline gets to finish her ballad before Dr. Martin comes through and nearly burns the place down. When Jonas is unable to find Elena at the Grill, he shows up at the Gilbert house and finds Katherine, which doesn’t end well for him. Later on, just when you think that’s a wild enough episode, Jenna answers a knock at the door that turns out to be none other than Isobel.

This week: Season 2 Episode 16 | The House Guest

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As Elena reads the Gilbert journals, she finds out about Stefan’s revenge on the founding families in 1864. Now that the truth is out, Stefan tells Elena about his ripper era and how Lexi brought him out of it. Meanwhile, Damon is desperate to get a chance to "talk" with Elijah—we all know what that really means. Andie gives Damon the perfect opportunity to “talk” by coming up with the brilliant idea that all of the adults should come over for a dinner party. This somehow comes together that night, but it does not get off to a great start: Jenna and Alaric are fighting, Damon is secretly plotting to use the dagger and white oak ash on Elijah, and Uncle John ends up crashing the "fun and games." As the dinner party is happening, Elena finds information in the Gilbert journals that throws off Damon’s plan. Eventually Alaric gets the chance to dagger Elijah, bringing the gathering to an end. Unfortunately, Elena didn’t finish reading the dagger chapter of the journal until later when she finds out it has to stay in the Original's body to be effective, which of course didn’t happen. Reawakened and furious Elijah races to find Elena to take her away, but Elena risks it all and manages to pull off daggering Elijah again herself.

This week: Season 2 Episode 15 | The Dinner Party

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In a rare cute Stelena episode, Stefan and Elena decide to avoid Uncle John and go spend the day at the Gilbert family lake house. While Stelena have their romantic getaway, everyone back in Mystic Falls is scheming. First we have Caroline, Bonnie, and Jeremy plotting to get information from Luka about the sacrifice by putting him in a witchy trance. Then we have John, whose version of scheming is just stirring the pot, which he does by hinting to Jenna that Alaric is lying to her. And of course, the werewolves are also up to no good: Jules and her pack have convinced Tyler to be on their side in the race to break the sun and moon curse. Unfortunately, the plan to break the curse entails Tyler and Brady trying to kidnap Elena while the other werewolves torture Damon to find the moonstone. Thankfully, Elijah makes another iconic entrance and saves Damon while Elena outsmarts Brady to avoid her third kidnapping.

This Week: Season 2 Episode 14 | Crying Wolf

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All of the worst characters come out to play in this episode. Uncle John returns and immediately stirs the pot with Jenna and tries to parent Elena. Meanwhile, Tyler confronts Caroline about lying to him about how many vampires there are and who killed Mason. Trying to do damage control, Caroline sends Stefan to talk to Tyler to help him cool off. Unfortunately, Tyler can’t bear to talk to Stefan and screams “help, help” into the phone when Jules calls. Jules retaliates by kidnapping and torturing Caroline, telling Stefan he has 20 minutes to bring her Tyler. When the trade goes down, Jules reveals her whole pack is in town and they all attack Damon and Stefan. The wolves almost overpower the Salvatore brothers, but fortunately Dr. Martin shows up and saves the day because of Elijah’s deal with Elena. Uncle John also shows up later with a “peace offering” for Damon and gives him a dagger with some white oak ash—giving Damon a way to kill an Original.

This week: Season 2 Episode 13 | Daddy Issues

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With Rose’s werewolf bite getting worse every minute, Damon asks Elena to play nurse while he tries to get a cure from Jules. Despite Elena's do-gooder efforts Rose hallucinates, attacks her, and escapes to cause chaos at one of the town’s many events. Just to lighten things up for a minute, both Matt and Tyler kiss Caroline, setting up a classic love triangle and Stefan is completely MIA on his own mission to find Isobel. Damon eventually finds Rose at the school and takes her home to give her a final moment of peace before staking her. This of course causes Damon to spiral even though he pretends that he’s fine in an epic laying in the road existential crisis. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Jules tells Tyler that Caroline is lying about how many vampires there are and Stefan returns with Uncle John.

This week: Season 2 Episode 12 | The Descent

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It’s finally the first full moon since Tyler became a werewolf, and he is desperate to find Mason to help him through the transition. Thankfully, Caroline steps in and comforts Tyler through the whole experience. Unfortunately, the voicemail Tyler left for Mason is overheard by our least favorite side character, Jules. When Jules gets to town and starts asking questions about Mason, Damon and Alaric scheme to find out whether she’s a werewolf. Meanwhile, Bonnie traps Elena in the Gilbert house and gets Luca to help her despell the moonstone—or so she thinks. While Elena is stuck inside, Jenna helps “an author” research Mystic Falls, who turns out to be Elijah. Elijah and Elena then decide to strike up a deal: Elijah will get Stefan out of the tomb and away from Katherine’s mind games in exchange for Elena letting Elijah use her to draw out Klaus. Things are almost looking up when Jules decides to go after Damon while she's in her werewolf form and ends up biting Rose.

This week: Season 2 Episode 11 | By the Light of the Moon

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Desperate to save Elena, the Salvatore brothers plan to get the moonstone from Katherine with the help of Bonnie and Jeremy—not really a dream team. Elena wants nothing to do with their terrible plan, so she convinces Rose to take her to Slater’s apartment to find out more about Klaus. At the apartment, they find a very dead Slater and Slater’s vampire-groupie girlfriend who Elena manipulates into helping them. Elena then reveals in a very Katherine Pierce way that she also used Rose and wants to surrender herself to Klaus. Rose immediately calls Damon to come stop her, and shortly after Damon arrives, Elijah returns and saves the day. While all of this is going down, Caroline and Tyler check out the Lockwood cellar in preparation for the full moon and find Mason’s journal and a video of his transformation. Back at the tomb, Jeremy tries to go rogue and get the moonstone himself and ends up being held hostage by Katherine. Stefan goes into the tomb to save Jeremy and ends up trapped with Katherine, maybe that's what she really wanted all along?

This week: Season 2 Episode 10 | The Sacrifice

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After Rose tells Elena that Klaus is coming for her, Elena goes to the tomb to give Katherine blood in exchange for the truth about the sun and moon curse. Through flashbacks to 1490, Katherine tells Elena about the child who was taken away from her, how she ruined Trevor and Rose’s lives, and how she turned into a vampire. Damon and Rose also try to get to the bottom of things by visiting Rose’s friend Slater, who is an encyclopedia of all things supernatural. While Damon asks Slater if there’s any way to destroy the moonstone, Elijah makes an iconic return that nearly kills Rose and Slater. While all of this is going down, Bonnie meets the new kid in school, Luka, whose Dad is very unsubtle about the fact that he and Luka are “warlocks.” Back at the tomb, Detective Elena realizes that breaking the curse requires more than just the doppelgänger and that Katherine came back to town to give her, Tyler, Caroline, and Bonnie to Klaus for the sacrifice.

This week: Season 2 Episode 9 | Katerina

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After being kidnapped for the second time, Elena is brought to an old, abandoned mansion where she meets her kidnappers, Trevor and Rose. Trevor immediately tries to feed on Elena, and Rose slaps Elena so hard she does a 360 spin, so things don't look good for her. Luckily, Jeremy and Stefan figure out Elena is missing and Bonnie does a locator spell so Stefan and Damon can rescue their girlfriend. Before the Salvatores can get there, Elena eavesdrops on Trevor and Rose discussing their deal with the person us Rippah Girls have been waiting for: Elijah. After Rose tells Elena how she and Trevor know Katherine, Elijah finally makes his grand entrance and is prepared to leave with Elena, but Stefan and Damon arrive just in time to "kill" him. Later on at the Gilbert house, Damon shows up to give Elena her necklace back and confess his feelings for her. But that tender moment doesn’t last, and we see Elijah may still be a problem after all.

This week: Season 2 Episode 8 | Rose

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Katherine sends a message to the Salvatore brothers: hand over the moonstone tonight at the masquerade ball, or she will rip apart the town until it rains blood. But Katherine predicts that Stefan and Damon won’t hand the moonstone over without a fight, so she brings her very own Bennett witch for backup and keeps a few tricks up her sleeve. Katherine knows her boy toys well because the Salvatore brothers enlist Bonnie, Caroline, Alaric, and even Jeremy to put their plan into motion. Their plan? Kill Katherine Pierce. Stefan and Damon are almost successful, but one of the tricks up Katherine’s sleeve is linking herself to Elena. Anything Katherine feels Elena does too, so no one can kill her but fortunately, Bennett witches stick together. Though her plan to get the moonstone doesn't work out, triggering Tyler's werewolf curse does. After the party, Elena, who has barely recovered from the night, gets kidnapped for the second time.

This week: Season 2 Episode 7 | Masquerade

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You know Masquerade is that episode when there’s a whole episode about the set up for the masquerade party. Everyone in the show is involved in party prep, including Stefan and Mason. Mason is shocked to see that Stefan survived the last episode, but Stefan is even more shocked when Bonnie bumps into Mason and has a vision of him kissing “Elena.” Stefan regroups with Damon to tell him what Bonnie saw, and Damon updates Stefan on his and Jeremy’s scheme to get the moonstone. They all combine their efforts and plot to kidnap Mason so Damon can interrogate him—we all know how that’s going to end. The plot is successful, and they even figure out where the moonstone is. Bonnie, Caroline, Stefan, and Elena retrieve the moonstone from the vervain-filled, snake-infested well, which Damon rubs in Katherie's face at the first chance he gets. Katherine is rattled that Damon and Stefan got the upper hand for once, but she's Katherine Pierce, she has a plan B that she sets in motion.

This week: Season 2 Episode 6 | Plan B

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A new day in Mystic Falls means a new event, and today’s event is the Historical Society Volunteer Picnic, which is the perfect opportunity for everyone to be in the same place to cause drama. This means Elena and Stefan can put on their best performances in their fake fight and Mason can prove to Sheriff Forbes that Stefan and Damon are vampires. Unfortunately for everyone, the classic vervain in a public drink supply trick works, proving Mason right. Liz and her deputies waste no time and go straight for shooting down the Salvatore brothers and dragging them away for questioning. Luckily, Caroline and Elena intervene with Elena doing pretty much nothing and Caroline doing everything, including taking out the deputies. Liz, thankfully, is spared because she’s Damon’s bestie. While all of this goes down, Jeremy uses his wolf drawings to get Tyler to tell him everything he knows about the werewolves.

This week: Season 2 Episode 5 | Kill or Be Killed

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For a minute, this episode makes you think it's opening with a Steferine 1864 memory, but we quickly find out it's Stefan's Delena nightmare created by Katherine getting in Stefan's head. Despite the rude awakening, Stefan lets Katherine hang around the Salvatore House long enough for Stefan to vervain her and lock her in the basement. Across town, Damon plots to get to know Mason by convincing Alaric to convince Jenna to host a barbecue, where Caroline tells Elena all of the reasons she shouldn’t be with Stefan. She's not wrong, but Caroline is definitely not subtle about it and is clearly up to something. While Stefan tries to get to the bottom of why Katherine is in Mystic Falls, she reveals her history with George Lockwood in 1864 and that she’s been drinking vervain for 140 years and is only pretending to be held captive so she can spend time with Stefan. After Damon taunts Mason with every wolf pun he knows, he goes straight for stabbing Mason with the Gilbert family silver, making yet another enemy—one of Damon’s many talents.

This week: Season 2 Episode 4 | Memory Lane

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It’s time for another Delena roadtrip episode! This time, Damon, Elena, and their third wheel, Alaric go to Duke to look through Isobel’s research and see if Isobel has any information about werewolves. Poor Alaric, the vibes on the trip are so horrid since Elena obviously hasn’t forgiven Damon for killing Jeremy like a day ago. Thankfully, the trip isn’t a total bust, and the trio learns about the curse of the sun and the moon and that a werewolf bite is fatal to vampires. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s a full moon and Stefan and Caroline stopped by a party at the swimming hole on the Lockwood property. Mason, of course, turns with the moon, confirming he’s a werewolf, and Stefan and Caroline have to avoid getting bit when they have a run in with him.

This week: Season 2 Episode 3 | Bad Moon Rising

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After being killed by Katherine, Caroline wakes up in transition and is immediately great at being a vampire in classic Caroline fashion. She completes the transition in record time, compels a nurse, and puts on a smokey eye so you know she’s really in her vamp era. While Caroline figures out how to get out of the hospital, Elena and Bonnie get the carnival ready and try to act like they’re just normal girls. Meanwhile, Mason and Tyler actually are just normal guys: they exercise, they exercise some more, and they talk about their anger issues—just boy things. Mason also tells Tyler he’s looking for a precious family heirloom: the moonstone. Later at the carnival, Damon and Stefan test whether the Lockwoods are zombies, werewolves, or ninja turtles. Caroline manages to break out of the hospital and pretty much immediately kills Bonnie’s carnival crush. Not related to the actual episode, Sarah calls out Rachel for totally flip-flopping on her takes, so definitely tune in for that.

This week: Season 2 Episode 2 | Brave New World

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Picking up right where we left off, John is down to six fingers, Jeremy may or may not be transitioning into a vampire, Damon thinks he and Elena kissed, and Caroline is in the hospital after the car crash. Eventually, Damon and Stefan realize that only one person could have caused so much drama: Katherine Pierce. At Mayor Lockwood’s wake the next day, Katherine continues to cause chaos and pretends to be Elena. Uncle Mason Lockwood also returns to attend the wake and talks to Tyler about his "inhuman" anger issues. Later that night, Damon and Katherine make out and talk about the last 145 years, and when that goes south, a very drunk Damon goes to see Elena and a very mischievous Katherine goes to see Caroline.

This week: Season 2 Episode 1 | The Return

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We're back with a review of Season One! To refresh our memories, we recap this season's character arcs, villains, and couples. We highlight some of the best performances and outfits and choose our favorites, like the best song of the season, our favorite three consecutive episodes, and, of course, our favorite Stelena and Delena moments. We even give Matt a few shout-outs, surprisingly enough, so we really cover everything.

Next week: Season Two Episode One | The Return

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Regardless of whether you’re Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah, you can’t deny there are so many parallels between The Summer I Turned Pretty and The Vampire Diaries. Not only is there a love triangle between the main character and two brothers in both series, but there are also obvious visual parallels like Conrad stepping in for Jeremiah in the season one finale and the infinity necklace. Most importantly, we debate which brother is most like Damon and which brother is most like Stefan. Regardless of whether Conrad is Damon or Stefan, we agree Belly is no Elena.

Next Episode: September 28th

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It's finally Founder's Day—the perfect day for Damon to eat cotton candy and steal Stefan's girl and for the tomb vampires to exact their revenge on the founding families. Luckily, Uncle John has a plan to take out all of the tomb vampires, but of course, John doesn't stop at capturing the tomb vampires: he also gets Anna, Damon, and Mayor Lockwood. With Bonnie's help, Stefan rescues Damon, but the rest of the vampires and the mayor are done for. Back at the Gilbert house, Damon shares a nice moment and kiss (!!!) with "Elena" right before she cuts off Uncle John's fingers and we realize that the Queen of Hell herself, Katherine Pierce, is back and better than ever.

This week: Season 1 Episode 22 | Founder's Day

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There are a lot of bad moms in Mystic Falls, but one of the worst, Isobel, finally comes into town. After threatening Alaric, Isobel meets with Elena to tell her to get the Gilbert device from Damon. When Elena doesn't immediately give it to her, Isobel breaks Matt's arm, kidnaps Jeremy, and makes her compelled cowboy and jazz singer beat up John. Even though John kind of deserved it, Bonnie "despells" the device and Elena hands it over to Isobel. Later on, Damon realizes John is Elena's father, and Bonnie tells Caroline that she did something Elena will never forgive her for.

This week: Season 1 Episode 21 | Isobel

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In the third flashback episode of this season, Stefan relives how he and Damon died in 1864 and became vampires. While Stefan dries out in the Salvatore basement, Damon and Alaric team up again to get more information about John and the Gilbert device. Meanwhile, John uses his “Gilbert charm” (gross) on Pearl at the Grill to try to get the device from her. After Elena helps Stefan get through the day, Damon comes home and reveals to her the real reason he’s promised Stefan an eternity of misery.

This week: Season 1 Episode 20 | Blood Brothers

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Leading up to the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant, Stefan spirals further out of control and is robbing blood banks left and right. Caroline is also out for blood in a different way—she’s desperate to win Miss Mystic Falls. Later at the pageant, Damon tells Elena that Stefan is drinking human blood again, and Stefan loses control and basically kidnaps another pageant contestant. In Stefan’s absence, Damon steps in and escorts Elena to dance and share the intimacy of the near touch in what is probably the biggest Delena moment of the season.

This week: Season 1 Episode 19 | Miss Mystic Falls

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After drinking Elena’s blood, Stefan struggles to not completely turn into a ripper and to hide his bloodlust from Damon and Elena. To make matters worse, Uncle John comes back into town and makes it clear that he knows more about what’s going on than anyone else. Later, at the millionth Founders’ Day event this year, Stefan actually has a little fun, Damon kills John, and John comes back to life. Tyler also makes out with Matt’s mom, but we were trying to forget that happened.

This week: Season 1 Episode 18 | Under Control

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After killing Bethanne, Stefan is kidnapped by the tomb vampires in the middle of a storm. Armed with Alaric’s vervain darts and other vampire-hunting weapons, our favorite trio, Damon, Alaric, and Elena, have to team up to get him back. During the rescue mission, Damon and Elena have a very heated conversation that’s so steamy it inspired the rain kiss in season six. Meanwhile, Jeremy keeps pushing Anna to turn him, and he inadvertently reveals to Anna that he wants to turn because of Vicki. Oh, speaking of Vicki, Caroline also makes a shocking discovery when she gets stranded in the woods.

This week: Season 1 Episode 17 | Let the Right One In

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After a quick Bing search, Jeremy figures out that Anna is a vampire and decides that he wants her to turn him. On top of dealing with that, Anna and Pearl struggle to keep the tomb vampires under control as they become desperate for revenge. Despite all of this drama going on, Stefan and Elena agree they should have fun and pretend they're just a normal couple. Their first step? Go on a double date with Matt and Caroline. And as if a double date with an ex wasn't uncomfortable enough, the date ends abruptly when the teens walk in on Damon making out with Kelly Donovan. After that ick-inducing end to the double date, two of the tomb vampires break into the Salvatore House and attack Stefan and Damon.

This week: Season 1 Episode 16 | There Goes the Neighborhood

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Jenna reveals to Elena that, like a true 21st-century woman, she scoured the internet to research Elena’s birth mother, Isobel. After Jenna gives her the full report, Elena pays Isobel’s high school bestie, Trudie, a visit, where Trudie is SUS AF. Meanwhile, Mom of the Year, Kelly Donovan, comes back to town to bully Caroline and go to the annual Mystic Falls Bachelor Auction. The two most eligible bachelors, Alaric and Damon, are raffled off, but not before Damon can reveal to Alaric and pretty much the entire crowd that he killed Isobel. Alaric then tries to kill Damon back at the Salvatore house, but Damon kills Alaric for the first time instead. Classic.

This week: Season 1 Episode 15 | A Few Good Men

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With the help of Grams, Stefan and his hero hair save Elena and Bonnie from their first kidnapping. As it becomes obvious that Damon won't give up, Elena gets everyone on board to open the tomb, including Damon who she convinces to trust her again by taking off her vervain necklace. When the door is finally open, Anna gets her mother, Pearl, out and we learn Katherine was never even in the tomb. After doing all of that for nothing, Bonnie discovers that Grams exhausted her magic and herself. But, of course, all of that pales in comparison to the drama between Matt and Caroline as they decide whether they're in a relationship.

This week: Season 1 Episode 14 | Fool Me Once

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It's time for some more flashbacks! As the search for Emily's grimoire continues, Stefan remembers the events that led to Katherine being captured by Giuseppe Salvatore and the rest of the 1864 Town Council. In the present, Damon reluctantly teams up with Stefan and Elena to search for Johnathan Gilbert's journal, which leads to a Stelena grave digging date. Speaking of dates, in a classic Vampire Diaries honeypot scheme, Anna and Ben scheme to get their hands on the Gilbert journal by sending Ben on a date with Bonnie.

This week: Season 1 Episode 13 | Children of the Damned

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It’s finally time for the first decade dance! Literally every single person in Mystic Falls attends: Jeremy’s stalker, Elena’s stalker, and the teens that don’t have stalkers. Despite being best dressed, Caroline and Bonnie ditch the dance early on to go to the Grill where Bonnie flirts with Bartender Ben, and Caroline and Matt get their Notebook kiss. Back at the dance, Stefan and Damon interrogate their girlfriend’s stalker about who he’s working with. Meanwhile, Anna does the vamp eyes after talking to Jeremy, and we find out that she knows both Elena’s stalker and Bartender Ben.

This week: Season 1 Episode 12 | Unpleasantville

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If you were one of the early Delena shippers, this is where it all began: Elena and Damon’s road trip to visit Bree in Georgia. While Elena actually lets herself have fun and Damon asks Bree about opening the tomb, Stefan tries to get Bonnie to do a locator spell to find Elena. Stefan eventually rescues Bonnie from the tomb entrance and returns her to Grams, who we find out is even cooler than we already thought. We also meet Anna for the first time when she not-so-subtly suggests to Jeremy that vampires might be real.

This week: Season 1 Episode 11 | Bloodlines

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At the Mystic Falls High Career Fair, Jeremy and Tyler sort of bond over their typical teenage boy art, Caroline decides she wants to become a broadcast journalist, and Logan Fell comes back from the dead to work the crowd and kidnap Caroline. Just as Damon is about to deal with Logan, Logan reveals that there’s another way to open the tomb. Meanwhile, Stefan and Elena get back together and, after they hook up for the first time, Elena finds the picture of Katherine.

This week: Season 1 Episode 10 | The Turning Point

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If you were ever part of a female friendship trio in high school, you know exactly what happens at Elena’s sleepover: Caroline starts a fight, Bonnie storms off into another room, and Elena forces Caroline to apologize. We’ve all been there. Unfortunately, Caroline suggests a seance once they all make up, which ends with Emily possessing Bonnie. Hopefully, that part isn’t too relatable. Meanwhile, Alaric and Jenna meet for the first time and flirt by talking about their terrible love lives. Damon also reveals to Stefan that Katherine is alive and that his diabolical master plan is to bring her back.

This week: Season 1 Episode 9 | History Repeating

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It's Stefan's birthday! To celebrate, Lexi comes to town and convinces Stefan to have a little fun for once. Luckily, Damon already compelled Caroline to throw a party at the Grill where Stefan and Lexi can go do tequila shots. Since Elena and Stefan are still sort of broken up, Bonnie cheers Elena up by destroying her pillow and magically floating feathers. Later at the Mystic Grill, we find out why Damon had Caroline throw the party because we all knew it wasn't to celebrate Stefan.

This week: Season 1 Episode 8 | 162 Candles

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Now that Vicki has completed her transition, she has to deal with her feelings for Jeremy, Stefan’s vampire lessons, and Elena’s self-important lecturing. And if you are an Elena apologist, proceed with caution, because she makes a lot of missteps in this episode. But none of her missteps are as bad as the costume designer putting Bonnie in a terrible blonde wig for the high school Halloween party.

This week: Season 1 Episode 7 | Haunted

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All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was the scene where Damon dances on the ledge of the second floor of the Salvatore House. After he and Vicki party, Damon snaps her neck, and she starts to transition. Meanwhile, Stefan finally tells Elena some of the truth (of course not all of it, this is Stefan after all), and we meet Katherine for the first time in the 1864 flashbacks. Oh, while this is all going down, Sheriff Forbes arms Logan Fell with the compass and wooden ammo and sends him on the hunt for a vampire.

This week: Season 1 Episode 6 | Lost Girls

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Of course, Mystic Falls would have a sexy car wash. While Logan Fell reports on the fundraiser, because apparently that’s news in Mystic Falls, Stefan reveals all of his red flags to Elena. But Elena overlooks Stefan’s favorite movie being Taxi Driver because she starts to piece together that Stefan is a vampire. Later on, Damon summons the strength to compel Caroline from across town to get away from Stefan’s lectures and Bonnie fights bullying with fire.

This week: Season 1 Episode 5 | You’re Undead to Me

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Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman? Yes, unless that woman is Carol Lockwood, who is on one in this episode. But being on one is kind of the theme of this episode: Logan Fell tries to honeypot Aunt Jenna at the Founder's Day party and Damon is just being season one Damon. Thankfully Stefan swoops in and vervains Damon right before he can kill Caroline, but then we get a self-righteous Stefan monologue, so at what cost?

This week: Season 1 Episode 4 | Family Ties

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Welcome to The Rippah Diaries, where we review The Vampire Diaries episode by episode.

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