Doppelgängers: A Vampire Diaries Podcast

Katherine really appears to be on her death bed, and everyone is ready to send her off! Damon starts drinking and projecting, definitely fueled by last week's potential Delena breakup, and everyone else is happy to join the blaming Katherine for our problems party. Except Stefan, who decides to be compassionate on her last day. This of course leads to the revelation he hooked up with Katherine, wh...

Elena has been kidnapped by Wes and brought to a new Augustine lab - which also happens to be the former clinic of her own father, Dr. Graysen Gilbert! Wes reveals his own scientific plans. We learn more about Graysen’s Augustine research, which seems to keep boiling down to the fact that vampire blood heals humans. So why is he electrocuting people? Unclear. Meanwhile, Stefan and Damon kidnap Aar...

Damon remains trapped in his cell, but Elena is on the hunt to save him and enlists the help of Aaron. Unfortunately, Aaron's past comes out faster than expected  and Wes gets Elena trapped as well. But with her cell right next to Damon's, he can share his past experience with Augustine (even though he takes his sweet time giving any tips on escaping). Damon tells Elena about his old friend E...

Our girls finally get to have some fun at college - not a lot, but some! Bonnie moves into the dorm room with a new bob and the same boyfriend (but they can have sex now, despite their distinct lack of chemistry). Caroline and Elena throw her a welcome party which is also a way to welcome Jesse to his new life as a vampire (and eventually to welcome him to the Other Side via a stake to the heart)....

Silas reaches a peaceful decision when it comes to Amara, which unfortunately means our team has one less witch willing to help them. Luckily, we still have the craziest witch left and the day is looking up for her! The day is not looking as great for Stefan, who’s memories are coming back to bite him and pushing him toward ol’ reliable: revenge. With all the doppelgängers under one roof, it’s tim...

Everyone starts this episode expecting a good day - Katherine has a new lease on life, Elena is expecting her best friend to come back, and Tessa and Silas are expecting Silas to die. But things rarely go according to plan for our heroes, and they certainly don’t today. Silas takes Damon and Jeremy to a warehouse where they are looking for the elusive anchor. Meanwhile, Tessa is spelled into a cab...

We may be in college but that doesn't mean we're done going to balls! At the Whitmore historical ball, Caroline picks everyone's costumes and slays every single one, but Tyler lets her down as her date. Dr. Maxfield wears a very telling costume and continues to be untrustworthy, and even tries to scare Elena away. Elena meets someone grieving Megan's death, and of course feels the need to fix his...

Damon and Elena attempt to bring Stefan’s memories back, ironically enough, on Remembrance Day (a new-to-us Mystic Falls holiday). But despite Damon’s quips, Elena’s feminine wiles, and a perfect Stelena song, Stefan struggles. Meanwhile, Caroline invites Jesse on a study date at the cemetery where, guess what, he gets in danger. Matt sets up cameras to figure out what’s going on with him even tho...

If you couldn't tell from the title, we are flashing back to Silas' humble beginnings this week! It all starts when Elena has a dream about where Stefan ended up outside of the safe and she and Damon decide to go on a road trip to go find him. Unfortunately for them, Katherine had the same dream and is joining them on this trip. Meanwhile, Stefan was taken in by a woman with a history with Silas a...

This week, news starts to spread that Stefan is … um … out of commission. While Silas’s many minions look for Katherine, Silas starts interacting with some of our heroes, including Damon and Elena (who have quite the lover's spat). Katherine, Jeremy, and Matt, attempt to evade Silas, but they only get so far. Matt has an eventful trip to the Other Side. Meanwhile at Whitmore, we meet Dr. Wesley Ma...

It's the season five premiere after an eventful summer! Caroline has been prepping for college, Jeremy has been sending Bonnie's ghost emails, Katherine has been wandering as a human, Elena and Damon have been having tons of sex, and Stefan has been drowning over and over. As Elena and Caroline head to college, and meet their new roommate, they find that maybe staying close so close to Mystic Fall...

It’s another season finale and man the cliffhangers are out to play! It’s time to graduate high school, a major rite of passage for everyone except Stefan who in on his 17th graduation. At least this one is memorable, with ghosts all over town. Elena and Alaric have to deal with Connor, who goes out doing what he loves, Stefan and Damon have to deal with Vaughn, who brings little beyond a Scottish...

Bonnie gets moving on a super secret plan with a super unexpected ally. Meanwhile, Elena is openly a hater, and no one can convince her that love is more important than hate. Liz tries to get an update from Stefan and Damon when Silas’s drama starts to effect citizens of Mystic Falls. Everyone converges at the high school - even Silas - while Rebekah uses a power outage as an excuse to put the mov...

We return to the major vampire diaries conflict this week, no not Silas, Elena's humanity! Stefan and Damon start by trying their same prom strategy, you know the one that didn't work, then decide to turn up the pain. Katherine is pulled in by the Salvatores and by Bonnie, but only one offers something she wants. Meanwhile, Silas has moved onto torturing Caroline (and the Klaroline stans), while p...

We are spinning off baby! That’s right, this is the backdoor pilot to the first TVD spinoff, The Originals and Stephanie is not super excited! We head down to New Orleans and meet new characters, set up new conflicts, and get excited about the expansion of the TVDU! Stephanie is ambushed to make guesses about a spinoff she was NOT emotionally prepared for - which is just how Grace likes it! Rememb...

It's time for prom at Mystic Falls High! Caroline of course planned a perfect prom (despite not bringing Klaus as her date smh), and luckily for the Salvatores the theme seems perfectly set up to get Elena's humanity back on. Unluckily for Damon, Elena only responds to romantic vibes from one brothers and it ain't him! Elena also uses her prom to steal from one best friend and try to kill another,...

Elena and Rebekah head to Willoughby, PA - the creamed corn capital of Pennsylvania - and find Katherine has a surprising new life. She also has a surprising new boyfriend, who we just might already know … Damon and Stefan meet them there, and even with a team of four against Katherine, they still can’t get the cure from her. Katherine even gets Rebekah to take a fake cure! Elena starts to increas...

We are in the city that never sleeps, aka NYC, this week! Damon tells Elena it's so she can have fun, but really he is continuing his hunt for Katherine and the cure. Rebekah meets them at a dive bar where Damon spent some no humanity time in the 70s, with none other than our humanity queen Lexi. He tells Elena all about this time as she plans to double cross him since, you know, her humanity is o...

It’s our first time seeing Elena without her humanity and tbh...she’s kind of a bitch! She joins the cheer squad just to feed on randos and hurt Caroline. Elena throws a party but gets upset when people have fun without her. Luckily, Damon can just use his sire bond to tell her to calm down! PSYCH. Damon spends the episode looking for a cure and not having a singe critical thought. But he does mee...

Almost everyone is back from the island, including Jeremy's body that Elena is convinced will wake up any moment. Stefan, Caroline, and even Dr. Fell try to get Elena past the denial stage while Matt is actually pro-denial. Meanwhile, Rebekah stayed on the island to look for the cure, which really comes down to getting Vaughn's her looking for Katherine, who has an unexpected ally. Damon also stay...

We’re still on the island, and the group has become fractured in the final race for the cure. Damon is kidnapped by new Scottish hunter Vaughn, Elena Stefan and Rebekah team up by default (and splinter just as fast), and Shane kinda nailed having all the essential people on his side. But Shane somehow fumbles it all in the final stretch, all because he couldn't outrun rocks. In Mystic Falls, Carol...

Our heroes have made it as close to the cure as ever: an island in Nova Scotia! They start the trek deciding to stick together, but that falls apart quickly as they decide to trust Shane, who has gotten nearly all of his information from his "wife"... ok. Rebekah and Elena spar even though they are two of only three who actually want to take the cure if they find it. Damon pushes Shane to give mor...

The race for the cure continues, and our team can’t even count on the decade dance to distract them - because Mayor Hopkins cancels it after learning about just how bad things are in Mystic Falls. Meanwhile, Elena fakes a truce with Kol since he really wants to rip off Jeremy’s arm. Rebekah attends her first high school dance, thanks to Stefan, who does his best to make it seem fun and cool. Elena...

We open this week where we left last week, at Zanadew with a whole bunch of new vampires. But Jeremy refuses to kill innocent people, even though isn’t that like the whole point to finish the hunter’s mark? Klaus tries to force Jeremy’s hand, but he avoids being useful long enough for Kol to show up and ruin everyone’s day. Kol really does not want Silas awake, though his reasons are vague. Rebeka...

As Mystic Falls mourns one icon, another icon is brought back to life and looking for answers! But she gets distracted by all the hot Stelena breakup drama she missed. Rebekah’s timing could not be more perfect, as tensions are at their highest following Caroline snitching on Elena and Damon having sex. No one has fun at the school - Tyler has to turn, Shane dies (temporarily), and April nearly di...