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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 (389,709 votes)
Episode average
8.2 ↑ +0.5 vs IMDb
Seasons
8
Streaming (US)
HBO Max · Peacock
Language
EN
Type
TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 8 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

8.20 avg 22 episodes 7.8 → 9.2 42 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 5,408 votesEp 2: 7.5 · 3,808 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 3,433 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 3,212 votesEp 5: 8.2 · 3,164 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 3,217 votesEp 7: 8.2 · 3,016 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 3,030 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 2,896 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,899 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 2,910 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 2,772 votesEp 13: 8.3 · 2,771 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 2,835 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 2,662 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 2,629 votesEp 17: 8.6 · 2,753 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 2,646 votesEp 19: 8.3 · 2,875 votesEp 20: 8.2 · 2,687 votesEp 21: 8.4 · 2,744 votesEp 22: 9.2 · 3,950 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Pilot7.85,408
2The Night of the Comet7.53,808
3Friday Night Bites7.93,433
4Family Ties7.93,212
5You're Undead to Me8.23,164
6Lost Girls8.43,217
7Haunted8.23,016
8162 Candles8.33,030
9History Repeating8.12,896
10The Turning Point8.32,899
11Bloodlines8.22,910
12Unpleasantville8.12,772
13Children of the Damned8.32,771
14Fool Me Once8.62,835
15A Few Good Men8.02,662
16There Goes the Neighborhood7.82,629
17Let the Right One In8.62,753
18Under Control8.12,646
19Miss Mystic Falls8.32,875
20Blood Brothers8.22,687
21Isobel8.42,744
22Founder's Day9.23,950

Season 2 (2010)

8.53 avg 22 episodes 8.9 → 8.9 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.9 · 3,316 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 2,578 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 2,515 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 2,479 votesEp 5: 8.6 · 2,492 votesEp 6: 8.6 · 2,487 votesEp 7: 9.0 · 3,000 votesEp 8: 8.8 · 2,820 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 2,508 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,305 votesEp 11: 8.4 · 2,375 votesEp 12: 8.4 · 2,524 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 2,267 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 2,295 votesEp 15: 8.3 · 2,281 votesEp 16: 8.5 · 2,276 votesEp 17: 8.3 · 2,282 votesEp 18: 8.7 · 2,423 votesEp 19: 8.8 · 2,622 votesEp 20: 8.7 · 2,407 votesEp 21: 9.1 · 2,887 votesEp 22: 8.9 · 2,923 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Return8.93,316
2Brave New World8.42,578
3Bad Moon Rising8.32,515
4Memory Lane8.12,479
5Kill or Be Killed8.62,492
6Plan B8.62,487
7Masquerade9.03,000
8Rose8.82,820
9Katerina8.52,508
10The Sacrifice8.32,305
11By the Light of the Moon8.42,375
12The Descent8.42,524
13Daddy Issues8.12,267
14Crying Wolf8.02,295
15The Dinner Party8.32,281
16The House Guest8.52,276
17Know Thy Enemy8.32,282
18The Last Dance8.72,423
19Klaus8.82,622
20The Last Day8.72,407
21The Sun Also Rises9.12,887
22As I Lay Dying8.92,923

Season 3 (2011)

8.48 avg 22 episodes 8.5 → 9.4 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.5 · 3,090 votesEp 2: 8.4 · 2,495 votesEp 3: 8.7 · 2,631 votesEp 4: 8.2 · 2,285 votesEp 5: 9.1 · 2,911 votesEp 6: 8.4 · 2,327 votesEp 7: 8.5 · 2,359 votesEp 8: 8.7 · 2,400 votesEp 9: 8.9 · 2,668 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,299 votesEp 11: 8.2 · 2,171 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 2,194 votesEp 13: 8.6 · 2,326 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 2,366 votesEp 15: 8.3 · 2,252 votesEp 16: 7.7 · 2,112 votesEp 17: 7.9 · 2,052 votesEp 18: 8.3 · 2,174 votesEp 19: 8.6 · 2,652 votesEp 20: 8.4 · 2,223 votesEp 21: 8.6 · 2,193 votesEp 22: 9.4 · 4,843 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Birthday8.53,090
2The Hybrid8.42,495
3The End of the Affair8.72,631
4Disturbing Behavior8.22,285
5The Reckoning9.12,911
6Smells Like Teen Spirit8.42,327
7Ghost World8.52,359
8Ordinary People8.72,400
9Homecoming8.92,668
10The New Deal8.32,299
11Our Town8.22,171
12The Ties That Bind8.22,194
13Bringing Out the Dead8.62,326
14Dangerous Liaisons8.62,366
15All My Children8.32,252
1619127.72,112
17Break on Through7.92,052
18The Murder of One8.32,174
19Heart of Darkness8.62,652
20Do Not Go Gentle8.42,223
21Before Sunset8.62,193
22The Departed9.44,843

Season 4 (2012)

8.37 avg 23 episodes 8.7 → 9.1 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.7 · 3,535 votesEp 2: 8.7 · 2,606 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 2,226 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 2,216 votesEp 5: 8.2 · 2,049 votesEp 6: 8.2 · 2,167 votesEp 7: 8.7 · 2,740 votesEp 8: 8.3 · 2,157 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 2,204 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 2,146 votesEp 11: 7.9 · 1,945 votesEp 12: 8.5 · 2,026 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,952 votesEp 14: 8.5 · 2,032 votesEp 15: 8.7 · 2,218 votesEp 16: 7.6 · 1,973 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 1,836 votesEp 18: 8.4 · 1,960 votesEp 19: 8.2 · 1,926 votesEp 20: 8.6 · 2,482 votesEp 21: 8.3 · 1,884 votesEp 22: 8.6 · 2,074 votesEp 23: 9.1 · 3,096 votes
Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Growing Pains8.73,535
2Memorial8.72,606
3The Rager8.32,226
4The Five8.32,216
5The Killer8.22,049
6We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes8.22,167
7My Brother's Keeper8.72,740
8We'll Always Have Bourbon Street8.32,157
9O Come, All Ye Faithful8.52,204
10After School Special8.32,146
11Catch Me If You Can7.91,945
12A View to a Kill8.52,026
13Into the Wild8.01,952
14Down the Rabbit Hole8.52,032
15Stand by Me8.72,218
16Bring It On7.61,973
17Because the Night8.01,836
18American Gothic8.41,960
19Pictures of You8.21,926
20The Originals8.62,482
21She's Come Undone8.31,884
22The Walking Dead8.62,074
23Graduation9.13,096

Season 5 (2013)

8.02 avg 22 episodes 8.2 → 8.9 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 2,773 votesEp 2: 7.8 · 1,930 votesEp 3: 8.2 · 1,984 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 1,898 votesEp 5: 7.8 · 1,795 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,766 votesEp 7: 8.0 · 1,763 votesEp 8: 7.7 · 1,720 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 1,748 votesEp 10: 7.8 · 1,732 votesEp 11: 8.7 · 2,305 votesEp 12: 7.8 · 1,707 votesEp 13: 7.7 · 1,642 votesEp 14: 7.8 · 1,620 votesEp 15: 8.6 · 1,915 votesEp 16: 7.7 · 1,644 votesEp 17: 7.9 · 1,576 votesEp 18: 7.8 · 1,651 votesEp 19: 7.8 · 1,546 votesEp 20: 7.6 · 1,539 votesEp 21: 8.5 · 1,855 votesEp 22: 8.9 · 2,719 votes
Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1I Know What You Did Last Summer8.22,773
2True Lies7.81,930
3Original Sin8.21,984
4For Whom the Bell Tolls8.11,898
5Monster's Ball7.81,795
6Handle with Care7.91,766
7Death and the Maiden8.01,763
8Dead Man on Campus7.71,720
9The Cell8.11,748
10Fifty Shades of Grayson7.81,732
11500 Years of Solitude8.72,305
12The Devil Inside7.81,707
13Total Eclipse of the Heart7.71,642
14No Exit7.81,620
15Gone Girl8.61,915
16While You Were Sleeping7.71,644
17Rescue Me7.91,576
18Resident Evil7.81,651
19Man on Fire7.81,546
20What Lies Beneath7.61,539
21Promised Land8.51,855
22Home8.92,719

Season 6 (2014)

8.12 avg 22 episodes 7.7 → 8.8 42 min avg

Ep 1: 7.7 · 2,034 votesEp 2: 8.3 · 1,866 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 1,686 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 1,621 votesEp 5: 8.6 · 1,901 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,633 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 1,714 votesEp 8: 8.2 · 1,573 votesEp 9: 8.0 · 1,492 votesEp 10: 7.9 · 1,522 votesEp 11: 7.9 · 1,530 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 1,494 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,488 votesEp 14: 8.3 · 1,672 votesEp 15: 8.7 · 1,870 votesEp 16: 8.4 · 1,784 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 1,486 votesEp 18: 7.7 · 1,438 votesEp 19: 7.9 · 1,421 votesEp 20: 7.9 · 1,450 votesEp 21: 8.5 · 1,696 votesEp 22: 8.8 · 2,315 votes
Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1I'll Remember7.72,034
2Yellow Ledbetter8.31,866
3Welcome to Paradise7.91,686
4Black Hole Sun7.91,621
5The World Has Turned and Left Me Here8.61,901
6The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get7.91,633
7Do You Remember the First Time?8.11,714
8Fade Into You8.21,573
9I Alone8.01,492
10Christmas Through Your Eyes7.91,522
11Woke Up with a Monster7.91,530
12Prayer for the Dying8.11,494
13The Day I Tried to Live8.01,488
14Stay8.31,672
15Let Her Go8.71,870
16The Downward Spiral8.41,784
17A Bird in a Gilded Cage8.01,486
18I Could Never Love Like That7.71,438
19Because7.91,421
20I'd Leave My Happy Home for You7.91,450
21I'll Wed You in the Golden Summertime8.51,696
22I'm Thinking of You All the While8.82,315

Season 7 (2015)

8.03 avg 22 episodes 8.1 → 8.1 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 1,794 votesEp 2: 7.9 · 1,465 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 1,414 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 1,416 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 1,374 votesEp 6: 8.0 · 1,358 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 1,334 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 1,361 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 1,393 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 1,845 votesEp 11: 7.7 · 1,305 votesEp 12: 7.9 · 1,283 votesEp 13: 8.3 · 1,324 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 1,497 votesEp 15: 8.2 · 1,278 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 1,368 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 1,314 votesEp 18: 7.7 · 1,188 votesEp 19: 7.6 · 1,201 votesEp 20: 7.7 · 1,186 votesEp 21: 8.0 · 1,244 votesEp 22: 8.1 · 1,427 votes
Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take8.11,794
2Never Let Me Go7.91,465
3Age of Innocence7.91,414
4I Carry Your Heart with Me8.01,416
5Live Through This8.11,374
6Best Served Cold8.01,358
7Mommie Dearest8.11,334
8Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me8.11,361
9Cold as Ice8.11,393
10Hell Is Other People8.71,845
11Things We Lost in the Fire7.71,305
12Postcards from the Edge7.91,283
13This Woman's Work8.31,324
14Moonlight on the Bayou8.61,497
15I Would for You8.21,278
16Days of Future Past7.81,368
17I Went to the Woods8.11,314
18One Way or Another7.71,188
19Somebody That I Used to Know7.61,201
20Kill 'Em All7.71,186
21Requiem for a Dream8.01,244
22Gods and Monsters8.11,427

Season 8 (2016)

8.17 avg 16 episodes 8.2 → 9.3 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 1,927 votesEp 2: 7.8 · 1,424 votesEp 3: 7.9 · 1,359 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 1,333 votesEp 5: 7.7 · 1,275 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 1,284 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 1,278 votesEp 8: 7.5 · 1,280 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 1,236 votesEp 10: 8.5 · 1,497 votesEp 11: 8.9 · 1,863 votesEp 12: 8.1 · 1,301 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 1,276 votesEp 14: 8.7 · 1,598 votesEp 15: 8.7 · 1,640 votesEp 16: 9.3 · 4,944 votes
Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Hello, Brother8.21,927
2Today Will Be Different7.81,424
3You Decided That I Was Worth Saving7.91,359
4An Eternity of Misery7.91,333
5Coming Home Was a Mistake7.71,275
6Detoured on Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell7.91,284
7The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You7.81,278
8We Have History Together7.51,280
9The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch7.81,236
10Nostalgia's a Bitch8.51,497
11You Made a Choice to Be Good8.91,863
12What Are You?8.11,301
13The Lies Will Catch Up to You8.01,276
14It's Been a Hell of a Ride8.71,598
15We're Planning a June Wedding8.71,640
16I Was Feeling Epic9.34,944

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