Bloodlines and Backdrops : The Secrets of Mystic Falls

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**S2 BONUS EPISODE Interview w/ Melise Jow**

We sat down with Melise Jow during fan weekend and laughed SO MUCH in our short time together! In this special episode, Melise talks about crocs, bonding with Ian, and seeing Steven again! 

This podcast offers more than just a rewatch; it invites you to share in the Vampire Stalker experience!

Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! 

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Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2 Bonus Episode In this bonus episode, Preslee & Amber go on an adventure to find locations they missed in the series so far!Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on air!) #vampirediaries #tvd #covingtonga #filminglocations #mysticfalls #tvdpodcast

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2EP11- By the Light of the Moon Someone new comes to town with questions about their missing friend, and someone old reminds us he’s still a threat. We see old lovers fight under the full moon, and a transition that carries a bite so deadly, it brings a new fear to the vampires of Mystic Falls. This is by the Light of the Moon. Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us w...

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2EP10 The Sacrifice The moonstone is stirring up problems (again), the doppelgänger is moving solo, and a dead original gives us at least two reasons to be scared. Mistrust is the theme in Mystic Falls tonight. This is The SacrificeThroughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on air!) #vampirediaries #tvd #covingtonga #filminglocations #mysticfalls #tvdpodcast

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2EP9 Katerina The search for the truth takes us back to 1492, far away from Mystic Falls, and in the truth we find lies, more tales of wolves, witches, doppelgängers, and the moonstone. All pieces of a puzzle that feels closer to getting solved.This is KatarinaThroughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on air!) #vam...

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2EP8 RoseA kidnapping in the dead of night. A bite that’s suddenly a death sentence. And a deal being brokered by something a whole lot older and scarier than anything Mystic Falls has seen yet. Tonight, the doppelgänger secret cracks wide open. This is Rose. Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on air...

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2EP7 Masquerade Mystic Falls throws a masquerade ball to honor the founders and the recently deceased mayor with masks on and secrets hidden. But this year, one face under those masks isn’t supposed to exist at all. The brothers who swore to protect this town are about to find out that protecting it means protecting it from her. This is MasqueradeThroughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloo...

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! S2EP6 PLAN BMoonstones, wolfsbane, vervain, near-death, true deaths, and breakups are just a small look into all that’s happening in Mystic Falls. Heartbreak is the top contender for the emotions we feel this week. This is Plan B.Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on air!) #vampirediaries #tvd #covingtonga #filminglocations #mysticfalls #tvdpodcast

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! *S2EP5 Kill or Be Killed*Ultimatums, exposed secrets, and the dramatic best friend caught in the middle of drama she doesn’t want to be in. Tough choices will be made in Mystic Falls tonight; this is kill or be killedThroughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on air!) #vampirediaries #tvd #covingtonga #filminglocations #mysticfalls #tvdpodcast

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries rewatch with receipts! **S2EP4 Memory Lane**She spent 145 years running. She faked her own death, betrayed an entire town of vampires, and manipulated everyone around her, all to survive. She is about to remind everyone exactly why she’s the most dangerous person in Mystic Falls. Let's go down Memory Lane Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re listening, tell us what you think using #bloodlinesandbackdropsNew episodes air on Thursdays at 8 PM EST (just like when TVD was on a...

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries re-watch with receipts! *S2EP3 Bad Moon Rising*It’s a full moon, and there’s something in the woods outside Mystic Falls. And it’s not a vampire. Tonight, between road trips to Duke, the show will introduce its deadliest threat yet, hiding in plain sight the whole time. This is Bad Moon, Rising.This podcast offers more than just a re-watch; it invites you to share in the Vampire Stalker experience!Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! If you’re liste...

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**S2EP2 Brave New World**

We’re headed to the carnival but something feels very off in mystic falls. We have questions with no answers, internal struggles between friends, and anger so strong it literally goes up in flames. This is a  brand new world. 

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Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights! 

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**S2EP1 The Return**

Tensions are high in Mystic Falls and not just because Damon thinks he kissed Elena who ended up being Katherine. Jeremy is upstairs playing sleeping beauty, uncle John is in the hospital, and a new Lockwood has entered the chat. It’s all mind games, rejection, and death. This is the return.

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**Interview w/Alice Evans - Esther Mikaelson - Ancestor Witch House - bonus episode**

Mama Mikaelson herself, Alice Evans sat down with Bloodlines and Backdrops in this hilarious tell-all interview. Recorded live at the Ancestor Witch House in Covington, Georgia!

Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights!

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Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries rewatch with receipts! **S1EP22 Founder's Day**Mystic Falls was built on secrets. On the founding families who smiled in the parade and burned people in the church. On the idea that if you keep up appearances long enough, the truth will never catch up with you. Tonight is Founder’s Day. Every single thing this town has been hiding all season is about to come apart at once. Welcome to the finale of Bloodlines & BackdropsThis podcast offers more than just a rewatch; it invites you to share in the Vampire St...

Welcome to Bloodlines and Backdrops, The Vampire Diaries rewatch with receipts! *S1EP21 Isobel*What do you say to the mother who chose to leave? Who traded in her humanity — and her daughter — for immortality? In Mystic Falls, even the reunions come with threats. Tonight, Elena finally comes face to face with Isobel. And what she finds out about where she comes from will shake everything she thought she knew about herself.This podcast offers more than just a re-watch; it invites you to share in the Vampire Stalker experience!Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting conn...

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**S1EP20 Blood Brothers**

Every monster has an origin story. A moment when everything changed — when the person they used to be slipped away and something darker took over. Tonight, we go back to 1864. To the night that made Damon and Stefan Salvatore who they are. And what we find out just might change how you see both of them forever.

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S1EP19 Miss Mystic Falls

Mystic Falls loves a crown. A title. A girl who smiles pretty and says all the right things. But what happens when the girl behind the smile is barely holding it together — and the boy on her arm is hiding something that could destroy everything? Tonight, beauty is the distraction. And the real danger is what nobody wants to see.

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**S1EP18 Under Control**

In Mystic Falls, control is something everyone claims to have — until it slips through their fingers or is pushed off the ledge & Tonight, keeping it together might be the hardest fight of all.
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Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights!

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**S1EP17 Let The Right One In**

In Mystic Falls, doors don’t just keep danger out — they decide who we’re willing to let in. An invitation can be an act of trust… or a fatal mistake. Tonight, we learn the real danger isn’t who’s outside — it’s who you choose to let in.

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**S1EP16 There Goes The Neighborhood**

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Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights!

In Mystic Falls, peace rarely lasts for long. When the past pushes its way back into the present, normal nights become anything but. Tonight, old threats slip into the open, alliances shift, and no one truly knows what — or who — migh...

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**S1EP15 A Few Good Men**

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Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights!

In Mystic Falls, some secrets cut deeper than any bite. Tonight, old wounds reopen, and the line between ally and enemy begins to blur. Welcome to A Few Good Men.

Let’s dive in.

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**S1EP14 FOOL ME ONCE**

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Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights!

Trust is a fragile thing in Mystic Falls. It’s given too easily, taken for granted, and shattered the moment the truth comes out. In this town, be...

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**Bonus EP Interview w/ Zach Roerig at the Lockwood Mansion**

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Throughout each episode, we journey down memory lane, highlighting connections to Covington and sharing behind-the-scenes insights!

Zach sat down with Bloodlines & Backdrops during TVD Fan Appreciation weekend at the Lockwood mansion to talk about filming days and the...

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**S1E13 CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED**

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The past hangs over Mystic Falls like fog. It never settles, just drifts… waiting for the right night to slip back in and change everything. And tonight feels like one of those nights.

In Children of the Damned, the consequences of...

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**S1E12 UNPLEASANTVILLE**

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We're heading back to Mystic Falls High for the one thing this town absolutely cannot handle: a school dance without drama and death. Unpleasantville is one of those episodes where every single character makes at least one questionable decision — and we are here to discuss all of them.

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**BONUS Interview w/ John Gilbert**

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We were so stoked to sit down with John Gilbert, the lead stunt double for Paul Wesley throughout all eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries.

John is a seasoned SAG-AFTRA stuntman from Wilmington, North Carolina, with credits spanning film and TV — in...

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**Season 1, Episode 11 - Bloodlines**

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Episode 11, Bloodlines! We’re talking sketchy road trips, witches with a grudge, journals full of secrets, and a twist that changes everything Elena thought she knew. Oh—and there’s a new face in town, but something tells us she’s not just here for the history project...

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**Season 1, Episode 10 - The Turning Point**

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Today we’re diving into episode 10: The Turning Point! Caroline gets kidnapped, Damon gets shot up by wooden bullets, and Elena finally finds out what those fangs do. So grab your bourbon because we’re heading into the turning point of Season 1.

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**Season 1, Episode 9 - History Repeating**

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Today we’re diving into season one episode nine: History Repeating. Bonnie’s witch powers are leveling up, Grams is out here dropping ancestral truth bombs, and somehow the most dangerous thing in this episode is a crystal.

Throughout each episode, we j...

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**Season 1, Episode 8 - 162 Candles**

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Today, we’re talking about 162 Candles. This is the episode that teaches us the most dangerous thing you can do in Mystic Falls is… love somebody.

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**Season 1, Episode 7 - Haunted**

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This is the episode where everything starts to unravel. Vicki’s hunger is growing, Stefan’s control is cracking, and Elena’s finally realizing that loving Stefan is gonna come with a body count!

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**Season 1, Episode 6 - Lost Girls**

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This episode has it all: flashbacks, fire, emotional breakdowns, surprise vampire transitions, and Katherine freakin' Pierce!!! 

Elena’s connecting the dots, Vicki’s barely hanging on, and Damon? Oh, he’s in full chaos mode —  and we can’t blame him. 

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**Season 1, Episode 5 - You’re Undead to Me**

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In this weeks episode, Damon is rotting in a basement, Stefan is running out of excuses so he tries to buy her love with food, and we meet Tiki’s granddad who’s about to figuratively blow shit up, while Bonnie is literally, blowing shit up! Le...

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**Season 1, Episode 4 - Family Ties**

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This weeks episode has shady reporters, old money drama, a Founders Party with way too much tension, and one very magical candle moment with Bonnie we’ve been waiting for.

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**Season 1, Episode 3 - Friday Night Bites**

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In this episode, Mystic Falls turns up the tension with football tryouts, dinner party drama, and of course, another “animal attack.” Bonnie’s intuition is fired up, and Stefan’s too good to be true act is starting to unravel.

Throughout each episode...

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**Season 1, Episode 2 - Night of the Comet**

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This episode delves into the first time The Vampire Diaries was filmed in Covington. We also have a behind-the-scenes conversation with actress Beth Keener Dent, who plays the scene opener in this episode, also known as a midnight snack for Damon!

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S1E1 -The Pilot!

This podcast is about more than a rewatch; it is a chance for us to share the Vampire Stalker experience with you.

In this episode, you’ll get to know your host, the late bloomer Vampire Stalker, Amber JaNae, and this week's co-host, the original Vampire Stalker herself, Jessica Lowery.

Jessica discusses the birth of Vampire Stalkers and Mystic Falls Tours, the early days of...

From 2009 to 2017, vampires took over our small Southern town.

I’m Amber JaNae, a local from Mystic Falls—okay, technically Covington, Georgia. But I lived through it all: the filming, the fandom, and the Founder’s Parties held on our front lawns. Now, we’d like to share the Vampire Stalker experience with you. We’ve collected props, captured behind-the-scenes moments, and witnessed our quiet little town transform into a supernatural legend.

Now, I’m inviting you to join me—one episode at a time.

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