The Vampire Diaries (season 8)

The Vampire Diaries (season 8)

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Country of origin United States
Release
Original network The CW
Original release October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21) – present

The Vampire Diaries, an American supernatural drama, was renewed for an eighth season by The CW on March 11, 2016.[1] On July 23, 2016 the CW announced that the upcoming season will be the series last and will consist of 16 episodes.[2] The season premiered on October 21, 2016.[3]

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

Guest cast

Special guest cast

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1561"Hello Brother"Michael A. AllowitzJulie Plec & Kevin WilliamsonOctober 21, 2016 (2016-10-21)8010.98[17]
A humanity-less Damon and Enzo are on a killing spree as per the vault monster's orders. Based on fresh leads, Stefan and Bonnie visit the slaughterhouse that Damon and Enzo now call home and try talking sense into them, but the duo are in no way even close to disobeying the vault monster. Alaric and his interns manage to delve deeper into the vault cave and discover ancient remains that have distinct Greek roots. Caroline has her hands full with finding clues and taking care of the kids along with the new nanny, Seline. On another side, Virginia St. John had escaped and gone straight for Seline. Caroline was right on time to save her kids, Seline and grill Virginia on spilling the beans about the vault monster but it was of no use, as Virginia bled to death. Bonnie was reminiscing about her and Enzo when she, along with Alaric, connected a similarity between a certain Greek story Enzo used to tell her and his current method of killing his victims. They all point towards Sirens or The Messengers of The Devil - a Greek myth according to which Sirens use mind control to lure their victims to their death. As the episode draws to a close, Damon and Enzo look on as the vault monster rises from the death pool with death gleaming in her eyes.
1572"Today Will Be Different"Pascal VerschoorisMelinda Hsu TaylorOctober 28, 2016 (2016-10-28)8020.90[18]
The siren, Sybil cannot figure out why Enzo won't fully submit to her and in an attempt to get in his head and find out what's holding him back, she learns about Sarah Salvatore; the last living Salvatore apart from Damon and Stefan. Sybil tasks Damon, who never knew about Sara, to kill her. A list of victims named Sarah Nelson ("Nelson" being Sarah's assumed surname) appears and Stefan, Caroline, and Bonnie go to the real Sarah's apartment to protect her from Damon and Enzo, the former of who is knocked out by Sarah with vervain upon their arrival. Enzo tells Bonnie they will both be in danger if he doesn't return to Sybil so Bonnie knocks him out and attempts to escape. Eventually, she must let him go but the two share a passionate kiss and he tells her he will never stop fighting for her. At Sarah's apartment, Damon attempts to kill her but Stefan tells him who she is and begs him to let her go for Elena. Damon lets her go, but Sybil shows up at that moment and kills Sarah. She is upset that Damon is tied to Elena so she changes his memories of Elena to her. Now fully submitted to Sybil, Damon walks out with her. When Enzo returns to Sybil, she gets in his head and sees his kiss with Bonnie. Meanwhile Alaric and his co-worker Georgie discover an artifact with a symbol that Georgie has tattooed on herself that she saw in a hellish state of mind after a near-death experience. In the end, Caroline moves into the Salvatore residence with Stefan, where she discovers he has made a room for her and Alaric's kids to stay and in the dresser drawer, an engagement ring. After making Stefan officially pop the question, Caroline accepts his proposal.
1583"You Decided That I Was Worth Saving"Michael KarasickChad Fiveash & James StoterauxNovember 4, 2016 (2016-11-04)8030.94[19]
Sybil realizes that both Damon and Enzo are tied to Bonnie and that she is main cause of whatever unwillingness to submit to her that either of them has left. Bonnie wants to put the search on Damon and Enzo on hold to help Caroline shop for a wedding dress but their day is ruined when Damon attacks. Caroline manages to save Bonnie but Sybil launches a new plan in which she forces Enzo and Damon to fight to death. Sybil introduces herself to Bonnie and Caroline and she tells Bonnie that she must choose between the two men. Bonnie, Caroline, and Stefan manage a head start to Damon and Enzo and try to keep the two from killing each other. However Damon eventually gains the upper hand just as Sybil arrives and Bonnie tells her that she chooses Enzo. However, Enzo being the more stubborn of the two, Sybil decides to instead force Enzo to shut off his humanity with Bonnie's life as a threat; when Enzo's humanity is off, Sybil sends Damon to kill Bonnie anyway and Alaric saves her last second and the ensuing supernatural violence is witnessed by Georgie. Bonnie takes Enzo back to their cabin to work on restoring his humanity. Stefan, Alaric, and Caroline, have Sybil captured now with Damon out to fulfill her mysterious plans.
1594"An Eternity of Misery"Rob HardyBrett Matthews & Neil ReynoldsNovember 11, 2016 (2016-11-11)8041.00[20]
More than two thousand years ago, Sybil asks her "sister", fellow siren, to tell her a happy story. Her sister tells her about Arcadius "Cade", a man with psychic abilities that was killed for what he was. In his last breath, he used his powers to create a new world where his soul traveled upon his burning at the stake. In the present, Sybil tells Stefan that her boss wants him to know the full story of her and her sister. Sybil's sister Seline, posing as the nanny of Alaric's kids, forces Georgie to trap Alaric in the vault and makes Georgie look like the other siren. Sybil's boss, revealed to be Cade who gave Seline and Sybil their immortality, tortures the souls of humans, considering them to be the most evil in the world. Seline kills Georgie and Georgie's soul is sucked into what appears to be Hell, where Cade will torture her soul while Seline eats her body. Meanwhile Damon goes after an object that he is subconsciously aware that Sybil wants; he ends up attacking and nearly killing a man, who is revealed as Matt Donovan's father. Matt saves his father from Damon, afterward telling him about the existence of vampires. Damon tells Matt that he killed Tyler Lockwood. Matt finds Tyler's body, confirming Damon killed him.
1605"Coming Home Was a Mistake"James ThompsonCeline GeigerNovember 18, 2016 (2016-11-18)8050.92[21]
Matt informs the others of Tyler's death and when he, Caroline, Stefan, and Alaric go to bury him, they are met by Damon. Matt learns that before Tyler died, he was looking for a siren named Seline with the now deceased Virginia. Seline babysits the twins on her day off and takes them to the carnival. They win a goldfish, which is dead, so Seline decides to explain the process of burial to the twins and tells them about Cade. Damon goes to Sybil wanting to be free of her mind control, which she denies him and is upset that he apparently hadn't fully submitted to her. Damon meets Stefan at the carnival where he is knocked out by Caroline. Stefan puts Damon in his coffin to hide until they can defeat the sirens. When Georgie's remain are discovered, the Armory is left alone and Sybil escapes, taking the tuning fork with her and then frees Damon from the coffin, who has decided not to feel and fully submit to her. Meanwhile Bonnie uses a magical candle from the Armory to keep Enzo inside the cabin and then lights the cabin aflame to use her impending to death to forcibly switch Enzo's humanity back on. It works and Enzo and Bonnie meet up with the others at the carnival to say goodbye to Tyler. Caroline shows Matt pictures of the girls on her phone and Matt recognizes Seline as the siren. Alaric and Caroline rush to the house only to find Seline and the twins gone with a kids-drawing of Elizabeth, Josie, Seline, and Cade.
1616"Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell"Paul WesleyAlan McElroyDecember 2, 2016 (2016-12-02)[22]TBATBD
Damon and Sybil meet up with Seline and the twins at a diner. Seline reveals her plan to offer up Josie and Elizabeth to Cade for the freedom of her and Sybil's souls. Sybil and Damon mysteriously tag along with her and the girls on the road where Alaric and Caroline desperately search for their daughters. Meanwhile Sybil decides to punish Enzo for escaping her by singing to him over the phone, thus putting herself in his subconscious where she tortures him. Stefan uses the predicament to speak to Sybil through Enzo to try and find Josie and Elizabeth. Damon, Sybil, Seline, Josie, and Elizabeth arrive at a motel where they use magic to summon Cade. Sybil tells Stefan where she is on the condition he comes alone and promises him an offer he cannot refuse. Stefan gives Alaric and Caroline a fake address and meet Sybil's demand to go alone. At the motel, Cade is at first interested in Seline's offer to have the twins become his slaves in about a decade or so until Sybil gives Cade her own offer of the Salvatore brothers instead. Damon, being Sybil's slave agrees as does Stefan to return Caroline's kids to her. The girls are reunited with Alaric and Caroline and the parents decide that Alaric must take the girls far away until the insanity of their lives is over. Stefan tells Caroline that he offered up his soul and that he was granted twenty-four more hours to be with her. Bonnie and Enzo may finally be free of Sybil, who leaves his subconscious after her meeting with Cade. Sybil reveals to Seline that because of her entrapment in the Armory's vault for two centuries without any rescue attempts from her sister, her deal with Cade only frees her own soul and Seline will now go to hell because of her no longer serving Cade. Alaric and Matt attack Damon, because of the former's belief that it is necessary to keep his kids safe and Alaric stakes him in the heart; Damon desiccates but because of his new immortality, he isn't killed.
1627"The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You"[23]Tanya HamiltonShukree Hassan TilghmanDecember 9, 2016 (2016-12-09)[22]TBATBD
1638TBATBATBAJanuary 13, 2017 (2017-01-13)[22]TBATBD
1649"The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch"[24]TBATBAJanuary 20, 2017 (2017-01-20)[22]TBATBD

Production

Filming for the season began on July 20, 2016.[25] It was announced on July 23, 2016, that season 8 of The Vampire Diaries will be the series' last. The season will contain 16 episodes.[26]

Ratings

No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Hello Brother" October 21, 2016 0.4/2 0.98[17] TBD TBD TBD TBD
2 "Today Will Be Different" October 28, 2016 0.3/1 0.90[18] TBD TBD TBD TBD
3 "You Decided That I Was Worth Saving" November 4, 2016 0.4/2 0.94[19] TBD TBD TBD TBD
4 "An Eternity of Misery" November 11, 2016 0.4/1 1.00[20] TBD TBD TBD TBD
5 "Coming Home Was a Mistake" November 18, 2016 0.3/1 0.92[21] TBD TBD TBD TBD
6 "Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell" December 2, 2016 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
7 "The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You" December 9, 2016 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
8 "TBA" January 13, 2017 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD
9 "The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch" January 20, 2017 TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

References

  1. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (March 11, 2016). "The CW Renews ALL 11 Series For Next Season, Including Veterans 'Supernatural' & 'The Vampire Diaries'". Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Comic-Con: 'The Vampire Diaries' to End With Season 8". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ausiello, Michael (June 17, 2016). "The CW Fall Premiere Dates: Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, TVD and More". TVLine. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Swift, Andy (May 13, 2016). "Vampire Diaries Boss Explains Damon and Enzo's Dark Finale Twist, Offers Hope for 'Steroline' in Season 8". TVLine. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Asadi, Abby (May 13, 2016). "Candice King Q&A – Denver's very own vampire next door". 303 Magazine. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ Julie Plec on Instagram
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  12. ↑ Interview: we did just book “Sheriff Forbes” aka my best friend Marguerite McIntyre for a little cameo in the third episode.
  13. ↑ "Tristin Mays on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
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  15. ↑ "(#803) "You Decided That I Was Worth Saving"". The Futon Critic. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
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  17. 1 2 Porter, Rick (October 24, 2016). "'Hawaii Five-0,' 'Shark Tank,' 'Hell's Kitchen' adjust up, 'Exorcist' adjusts down: Friday final ratings". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  18. 1 2 Porter, Rick (October 31, 2016). "'The Vampire Diaries' and 'MacGyver' adjust down vs. World Series: Friday final ratings". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  19. 1 2 Porter, Rick (November 7, 2016). "'Shark Tank' adjusts up, 'The Exorcist' adjusts down: Friday final ratings". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  20. 1 2 Porter, Rick (November 14, 2016). "Last Man Standing' adjusts up, all others hold: Friday final ratings". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 14, 2016.
  21. 1 2 Welch, Alex (November 21, 2016). "The Exorcist' adjusts down: Friday final ratings". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 21, 2016.
  22. 1 2 3 4 "Shows A-Z - vampire diaries, the on cw". The Futon Critic. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  23. ↑ "(#807) "The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You"". The Futon Critic. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  24. ↑ "We have a WINNER! Sort of. "The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch" Awesome, Caro. I can't believe you got it that fast.". Twitter. October 14, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  25. ↑ Michael Malarkey on Twitter
  26. ↑ Byrne, Craig. "The Vampire Diaries To End With Season 8". KSiteTV. Retrieved July 23, 2016.

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