The Vampire Diaries
The CW | CW | Release Date: September 10, 2009
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
8
Negative:
7
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30
The Hollywood ReporterRandee Dawn
Season 1 Review: Where is that Buffy chick when you need her? Read full review
30
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Williamson also wrote the "Scream" trilogy, but there's neither humor nor horror here, unless you count some of the acting and casting. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: It’s not that The Vampire Diaries is a truly terrible show. It’s just so insipid and uninspired. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: I expected more sparky wordplay from a Williamson show, but the Vampire Diaries pilot is pretty limp and lifeless in that department. The attractive cast is... attractive. Let's be kind and say that they are not all blessed with the same level of competence in the acting department. Read full review
20
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Pretty, sensible teenage vampires who talk like depressed extras on "Hannah Montana"? Why, Diary? Why? Read full review
10
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: CW's version details the dull, dull doings of the world's clammiest vamps, who may flash fangs and skulk around in dark cemeteries (ever see a bright one?) but who come up fatally flat in terms of mayhem and menace. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: You will want all the extras who played vamps on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (which was great, by the way, and not to be blamed for this lackluster cousin) to return en masse to eat the cast of "Vampire Diaries," plus any remaining scripts. Read full review
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