Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, “DeGrassi: The Next Generation”) and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, “Everwood”), are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her grief from the world. Elena and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning, “Smallville”), who is doing her best to be a surrogate parent.
Elena manages to find some comfort with her familiar social circle – best friend Bonnie (Katerina Graham, “17 Again”), frenemy Caroline (Candice Accola, “Juno”), and former boyfriend Matt (Zach Roerig, “Friday Night Lights”), but Jeremy is on a more dangerous path, hanging out with the stoners and using drugs to hide his pain. Jeremy is also trying to figure out why Matt’s sister, Vicki (Kayla Ewell, “The Bold and The Beautiful”), is suddenly rejecting him and hanging out with Jeremy’s rival, Tyler (Michael Trevino, “Cane”).
As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley, “Fallen”). Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, although Elena is puzzled by Stefan’s increasingly bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her parents are buried. What she doesn’t realize is that Stefan is hiding a dark, deadly secret of his own – the fact that he’s a vampire. At a bonfire party the next night, Elena and Stefan are just getting to know each other when chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding from a savage bite to the neck.
Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns home and finds his older brother, Damon (Ian Somerhalder, “Lost”), whom he hasn’t seen for 15 years. Damon is also a vampire, and the two brothers have a long and bitter history. Damon ridicules Stefan for rejecting their legacy of violence and brutality, but he understands his brother’s obsession with Elena, since she looks exactly like a woman Stefan loved more than a century ago; a woman that Damon tried to make his own. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for Elena’s soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of Mystic Falls, Virginia.
Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries is from Alloy Entertainment and Bonanza Productions Inc in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson (“Scream,” “Dawson’s Creek”), Julie Plec (“Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), Leslie Morgenstein (“Gossip Girl,” “Private”) and Bob Levy (“Gossip Girl,” “Privileged”). Marcos Siega (“Dexter”) directed the pilot.
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Character Plot: Bonnie Bennett is a student at Mystic Falls High School and best friends with Elena Gilbert. She recently discovered that supernatural powers such as clairvoyance, pyrokinesis, telekinesis, aquakinesis. She’s a witch.
Katerina Graham as: Bonnie Bennett
Additional Cast: Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Zach Roerig, etc
Original Airdate: September 10, 2009
Production Status: Season 1 is now airing
Network: The CW Network
Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance
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Note: A more comprehensive and detailed episode guide of all episodes which will include episode summaries, quotes, videos, pictures, links and much more will be available soon.
Season 1:
1.01 – Pilot (view information)
1.02 – Night of the Comet (view information)
1.03 – Friday Night Bites (view information)
1.04 – Family Ties (view information)
1.05 – You’re Undead to Me (view information)
1.06 – Lost Girls (view information)
1.07 – Haunted (view information)
1.08 – 162 Candles (view information)
1.09 – History Repeating (view information)
1.10 – The Turning Point (view information)
1.11 – Bloodlines (view information)
1.12 – Unpleasantville (view information)
1.13 – Children of the Damned (view information)
1.14 – Fool Me Once (view information)
1.15 – A Few Good Men (view information)
• In an on-set interview with The CW Source, Katerina Graham describes Bonnie as follows: “Bonnie is very sweet, loyal, selfless, goodhearted best friend. I don’t know if you ever had that best friend that you grew up with that was always there for you, ride or die. Bonnie is that. She’s very intuitive. She can vibe out certain things. She’s innocent and sweet which I really love about her. She has had this sort of texture to her that’s very clean and pure which I think is obviously a great platform to be a psychic. I mean who expect little Bonnie Bennett to torch a car. I love that. I love her vibe. Her energy is just so sweet and love and she’s just a great friend.”
• Katerina Graham was asked about any potential love interests during Season One and answered as follows: “I honestly have no clue, I have no idea. I really love the fact that the writers are focusing on Bonnie as herself, she’s not affected by any man she’s just really focused on figuring out who she is right now. I think that’s such a great thing for a young woman to have. It’s like, “You know what, I am going to figure out who I am first!” I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback on the fact that Bonnie doesn’t have a man right now and isn’t obsessed with a boy. I heard that I am not going to have any action for a very long time and that kind of makes me happy. If it happens, it happens, it might happen in the next episode but I really have no idea. I don’t know until about the day before we shoot it sometimes so we’ll see.”
