The Vampire Diaries (TV Series 2009–2017) Poster

(2009–2017)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Frequent kissing heterosexual in the first couple of seasons.
  • The scenes can be a little intimate but they end before anything to explicit happens so there is nothing much to worry about.
  • Heated kissing between teens and references to "hooking up" for sex. Seduction.
  • Majority of the episodes have teenagers making out, but there is no graphic nudity.
  • Girls are shown in underwear, but no explicit shots.
  • Most sex scenes involve a couple kissing and stripping down to their underwear. But the scenes cut away before anything happens.
  • A man continues to kiss a young woman's neck against a tree after she repeatedly tells him to stop. Another young man interrupts this scene, thus preventing it from going any further
  • Couples are seen but they are covered up with no nudity and nothing happens.
  • Clothes are torn off due to the vampires' superhuman strength. Nudity is only implied.
  • Two vampires make out including tearing of a shirt and a dress and lots of slamming each other against walls at vampire speed. Neither one of them is hurt by this. There is no nudity and the scene is mild and brief. The detail shown is very brief. It is blurry because of the vampires super speed and a short scene.
  • In one episode there is a threesome between two women and a man implied. The scene involves a making out but we only see above the chest. The scene is not very long.
  • A man and a woman are seen lying naked in bed, with a sheet covering them.
  • A man walks out of a bathtub, naked, but he is covered and we only see from the chest and up as he walks out of the bathroom.
  • A couple instances of same sex kisses. But never any nudity. And only ever brief making out.
  • A woman is shown taking off a man's belt in a kissing scene but that is all.
  • Women and men are seen kissing and making out.
  • A man is shown kissing and running his hands down a woman's body, including above her underwear. The man is wearing a sheet around his waist and the woman is clothed. There is no nudity in this scene and it is brief.
  • A man has a scratch on his back as he makes out with a woman. This is due to her vampire strength and there is nothing past a few kisses
  • A man and a woman kiss, but another woman enters the room and the scene ends.

Violence & Gore

  • One character rips the head and limbs off their victims though the act is not detailed.
  • Fantastical violence and conflict (including vampire attacks, torture scenes, bloody wounds and bites, and hand-to-hand combat that involves people throwing each other into buildings and out of windows, etc.) are part of every episode. Characters die.
  • A young woman hangs herself and is seen hanging dead for a few seconds.
  • Everytime a vampire feeds (drinks blood) blood is always shown around their mouth and the victim's neck. But the actual feeding is never shown.
  • A vampire chops a man's fingers off with a kitchen knife. Blood is shown. But the actual act is not shown only blood.
  • Vampires are tortured with vervain (extremely harmful to vampires) and their skin burns and turns red as they yell in pain.
  • Vampires rip hearts out but never too gory.
  • When a vampire gets killed, their skin turns grey and mutilated.
  • Many threatenings occur in this show.
  • There is often violence in this show, and blood is always shown, but it is not disturbing and usually only blood is shown after (fights or other), many torture scenes are featured.

Profanity

  • Occasional use of words like "crap," "jerk," "bitch," and "ass," along with offensive terms such as "tranny mess."
  • Uses of the words ass, bitch, bastard, damn, hell, dick and other mild words.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Most main characters drink alcohol socially, even though they're underage. Some drink to the point of being drunk; rarely are there consequences. Some characters smoke cigarettes, one character struggles with a substance abuse disorder.
  • Quite strong but infrequent drug use in the first few series, but it dies down almost completely by later seasons.
  • One boy is a drug dealer and abuser and would be no older than 15/16 years old and he is shown getting high. But it's not too inappropriate or detailed and the scenes are brief.
  • Lots of drinking, mostly from underage teenagers.
  • One of the main characters drinks almost every episode and due to being a vampire his tolerance for alcohol is very high so it takes quite a but of drinking to get him drunk. This is more humorous and ironic than it is inappropriate or intense.
  • In season 6 a female vampire uses a hallucinogenic magic drug which allows her to see her dead boyfriend whilst under its influence and is seen using it quite a few times, but it is not inappropriate and is obviously supernatural.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A lot of characters are killed, most of the death scenes are emotional.
  • The entire series features shocking and frightening scenes due to the supernatural elements that are vampires and other supernatural beings.
  • People are killed in brutal ways without much mercy; most of them are teens or young adults.
  • Many torture scenes are featured.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • The most gory part of the entire series is when a vampire hunter sets a trap for a vampire. There's an explosion, and the vampire is seen with his insides hollowed out, coated with glass. The vampire is covered in broken glass and nails. It's not too bad and not much detail, but it's quite brutal.
  • In season 5 the consciousness inside Matt films himself threatening to slit Matt's throat after demonstrating by slitting his hand open, blood is shown.
  • In season 6 a character is compelled to do whatever a vampire says and is forced to do surgery on a woman and her heart.
  • A woman (under vampire compulsion) stabs herself in her stomach and is taken to the hospital. She survives. Blood shown.
  • A man turns a device on, which gives extreme pain to vampires described as 1000 needles in their brain and they are later taken by cops and burned.
  • A man turns out to be a werewolf. His nephew and his friends find his diary and a video of him being turned into a werewolf on the first night. He is seen yelling in pain and throwing stuff as he is bound in a very hard leash. Could be very unsettling to sensitive kids.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • At the start of season 2 Jeremy drinks vampire blood then tries to kill himself from a drug overdose by using pills. He does survive.

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