Series lenght: 3 Seasons, 66 Episodes
Tv schedule: Every Thursday 8:00 PM et/pt on The CW
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Vampire
Elena and her brother Jeremy now live with their aunt Jenna, attend high school and do what ordinary teenagers do. One day, things become not so ordinary when Elena meets Stefan Salvatore, a 162 year-old vampire. Stefan grew up in Mystic Falls and fell for the beautiful Katherine Pierce. Not knowing that she was a vampire, Katherine turned both Stefan and his brother Damen, who also loved her, into vampires. After finding out that the town has been over run with a major vampire population, the townspeople and council decide to lock the vampires away in a tomb for eternity. Stefan and Damen manage to escape, but Katherine goes missing. Thinking that this is where Katherine ended up, Stefan and Damen make it a mission to rescue her over the years.
After Stefan meets Elena for the first time, he notice an uncanny resemblance between her and Katherine. They look nearly exactly alike and no one is sure why. Elena doesn't find out about Katherine until she finds a picture of her in Stefan's room. By this point, Damen is back in town and is mystified when he sees Elena. Like Stefan, he wonders why she looks just like Katherine. Determined to open the tomb and find Katherine, Damen enlists the help of Elena's friend Bonny who is a witch.
The tomb is opened only to find out that Katherine is not in there. Damen is heartbroken knowing that Katherine never really cared for him because she left for over 100 years. We then find out that Elena was actually adopted. Her birth mother was a bit obsessed with vampires and eventually decided to become one. It is then discovered that Elena is Katherine's doppelganger. This makes Elena a prime target for many terrible things that are about to come.
Through it all, Jenna is never aware that Elena is dating a vampire or that vampires even exist. Trouble ensues when Klaus and his family come back into town and want to get revenge on Stefan and Damen. After finding out that Elena is the doppelganger, he feels that he must kill her in order to create hybrids of half vampire, half werewolves. Many people end up being killed due to Klaus, including Jenna. Klaus and his family's blood line are a huge plot in The Vampire Diaries.
Towards the end of Season 3, many disastrous things start to happen. Elena dies in a car accident off of Wickery Bridge, just like her parents did. However, it becomes known that she had vampire blood in her system and will now begin the transition into a vampire. We can expect to see many more twists during Season 4 of the Vampire Diaries.
