Doppelgängers: A Vampire Diaries Podcast

A lot of people sure do need some prayers this week! Liz is taken to the hospital after we learn that vampire blood doesn’t cure cancer after all - it makes it worse! Elena, who famously has been a pre-med student less than a year, does not hold back her medical and magical advice, even though she should. Kai proves useful to the debacle so Damon wakes him up - for the low low cost of a Liv/Luke m...

In this minisode we discuss the controversies surrounding Matt Davis, aka him being horrible and creepy. We may be Alaric fans but first and foremost we don't like xenophobic, Trump supporting predators!

Magic is flowing all over the place in and around Mystic Falls this week! With Kai full of magic courtesy of the travelers, he has to get a handle on all that power. Luckily, a vampire is perfect to test torture spells on. Meanwhile, Jo begins training for the merge, and while Liv and and Jo remain hopeful, pretty much everyone else is being realistic and sees the writing on the wall. But don’t wo...

It’s Christmas in Mystic Falls, so this is a fun episode that won’t make you cry! Just kidding! Though we see flashbacks of happier Christmases, this one is tough: Bonnie is still in the Prison World, Liv and Luke are working with Kai to kidnap Jo, Matt wants to kill Enzo (and he’s being kinda weird about it), and to top it all off, Liz has terminal cancer! But on the plus side, the anti magic bor...

It's our first ever mini-sode! We discuss a listeners voice message and give our controversial opinion on Gilmore Girls. Enjoy, brothers!

It's a busy, Parker-centric week! Damon's compulsion of Alaric comes through and with the ascendant in hand, it seem like we are absolutely getting Bonnie back this week, right? Jeremy is not so optimistic. Liv helps Elena and Damon go to the prison world, but they do their favorite thing: dilly dally. The rest of the Parkers are worried going into the prison world will let Kai out, but no...

It’s Thanksgiving in Mystic Falls and in the Prison World! Caroline throws an eventful Friendsgiving at Whitmore, where we find out just how Kai, Jo, Liv, and Luke are connected. Meanwhile, Alaric, Damon, and Stefan head to Portland to look for the ascendant, and end up learning some information of their own. Over in the Prison World, Kai treats Bonnie to a thanksgiving dinner and promises to let...

Damon is back and Elena has to face her past, but man she does not want to! At the Whitmore Hospital fundraiser, Alaric and Jo enjoy a date, which ends in a clue about her past, and Elena and Liam go on a date, which ends in Liam wandering Scull Bar with a chardonnay. Damon and Elena attempt to bring her memories back, and we get to see a long awaited iconic kiss. Meanwhile, Stefan, Enzo, and Matt...

Damon is back and ready to dive right back into his perfect life - but there’s a number of issues in his way: he left his new BFF Bonnie behind, everyone let Alaric compel Elena’s memories away, and she won’t even see him! Plus, he learns firsthand about the new hunter. Enzo, realizing Tripp is getting less patient with him, threatens to expose the group which prompts a rescue mission. Elena tries...

It’s homecoming baby! And the theme is “random ghost woman in a corn maze”? Stefan comes home to make amends, just kidding! He’s ignoring his responsibilities and taking advantage of Caroline again, but at least she and Alaric get their chances to tell him off. In the prison world, Bonnie makes a useful discovery about Kai, but he has one more trick up his sleeve. Meanwhile, Elena takes Liam to th...

This week, we finally learn why Damon calls May 10 1994 his personal hell - it involves an eclipse party and the return of a character we haven't seen since season one! Plus, it leads to yet another Stefan vs Damon debate. Elena visits Stefan in Savannah, GA - he takes her to a dive bar and shows her how to fake a human life, and she gets on her unearned grief high horse. Stefan retaliates by...

Now that Elena is free from the memories of her dear dead boyfriend, she's ready to party! The group gathers at the swimming hole to have fun, except for Stefan who is there to kill Enzo. Jeremy makes out with Sarah, who is suspiciously looking for her father, Elena shows off to Liam, and Liv and Tyler are apparently still doing this couple thing. Matt makes a troubling discovery about Tripp,...

This week, we finally check on Damon and Bonnie, and find out where they went after the collapse of the Other Side and it appears to be … 1994? As they search for a way out, they begin to suspect they’re not alone. Meanwhile, in the land of the living, Elena makes the incredibly stupid decision to have Alaric compel away her memories of Damon, and everyone else makes the equally stupid decision to...

It's the season 6 premiere and despite losing Damon and Bonnie four months ago, everyone seems to be working through their grief in a healthy way! Just kidding, can you imagine? Stefan has left town, and while this would normally be to chase a lead that is not the case this time. Elena has worked through her Bonnie grief but has a secret trick to dealing with the Damon grief, she doesn't! Jeremy i...

It’s the season finale and it’s a big one! Bonnie actually has a plan to save almost everyone from the collapse of The Other Side, which everyone takes as a clue that dying is no big deal, and they all should feel free to do it. The list of dead people outnumbers the list of alive people, which should concern our heroes more than it does. The travelers, after 2000+ years of planning, are fooled by...

It is the penultimate episode, and Julie Plec was clearly feeling epic but not in a good way! We start with Stefan and Elena escaping traveler captivity, but not before Markos gets a whole lot of doppelgänger blood. That blood is quickly shared with the passengered townspeople in Mystic Falls, and the spell seems ready to go. With all witch magic and everyone's lives in jeopardy, people start...

Everyone decides they need to get their mind off the current state of affairs (Enzo “running away” and the Travelers aiming to kidnap the doppelgängers), so they take a lovely trip to the Forbes' cabin in the woods. They bring Luke to cloak their presence, but he can’t cloak them from Enzo’s vengeful ghost. Plus, thanks to the impending collapse of the other side, Enzo can physically haunt the...

The travelers are finally ready to share their goal, but first they fulfill a promise to tell Enzo where Maggie is, but it is far from the answer Enzo wants. Enzo uses Liv and Luke to take Elena and Stefan hostage, and to be honest he does have the evidence to back it up. When Damon reveals his discovery that he actually met Maggie decades before, Enzo has a little bit of a meltdown but ends it wi...

The Traveler’s have officially traveled to Mystic Falls, and their first order of business is installing as many passengers as possible into the townsfolk - including our dear Sheriff! Meanwhile, Damon and Elena continue their sad excuse for a breakup, made more dramatic by the fact that Stefan and Elena have started having romantic visions of each other. The source? Not the prophecy we’ve never t...

Everyone is busy on their own missions this week! Caroline and Enzo are tracking down the only remaining Stefan doppelgänger, Tom Avery, in Atlanta, who someone else unfortunately tracked down first. Elena and Damon are at Jeremy's parent teacher conference, and of course make it all about their "breakup". Liv and Luke are done keeping secrets, but fail to kill the one person they pl...

Elena wakes up to a pretty bad day - not only has Katherine been controlling her body for three weeks, but now that she finally has it back it’s coursing with the ripper virus AND werewolf venom! She spends the day on the phone with a still-chained-up Damon - where he talks about everything BUT Aaron Whitmore. Elena quickly starts spiraling and meets a “friend of Katherine’s” named Luke - who also...

After Stefan and Caroline's revelation last episode, it looks like Katherine's time is coming to an end. But she's not alone, Nadia's werewolf bite is bringing the classic flashback hallucinations before death, but Katherine is ready to enlist Dr. Maxfield for help. Meanwhile, our heroes try to lure Katherine to the Salvatore house with one of their dumber plans to date. Quickly, everyone knows th...

This week might as well be called The Dumbass Olympics. Almost all the characters make dumb decisions all episode - except, for some reason, Matt Donovan of all people. Katherine and Stefan go on a road trip to “find Damon”, where Stefan gets … distracted. Nadia and Matt tell the world’s least believable lie to Caroline and Tyler - and what’s worse is Tyler sort of buys it? Enzo and Damon are trap...

We have quite a long episode this week, potentially due to the fact that this is probably the last time we get to riff on Diane Freeman, Head of Whitmore Campus Security. At Whitmore it is the annual Bitter Ball, and Caroline and "Elena" are ready to celebrate a fresh start after their respective breakups. But Katherine is ready for a new boyfriend and will do her best to get a kiss from Stefan AS...

Katherine is successfully a passenger in Elena’s body, and her first order of business is to get rid of that damn red streak! Her second order of business is for her and Nadia to find Katherine’s corpse and make the spell permanent - but Elena is doing her darnedest to fight against that. For a leg up, Katherine and Nadia enlist the only compellable boy left in town - Matt! Matt throws Tyler a wel...