The Vampire Diaries, which premieres tonight on the CW, has its finger on the pulse of American youth, delivering a teen-vampire love story that gives Twilight a run for its money:
- “Let the other franchises sniff with disdain at moldy old genre conventions,” writes Mary McNamara in the Los Angeles Times. “This “good old-fashioned love story with vampires knows precisely what it is—a Gothic romance—and doesn't try to be anything else.”