Review FutonCritica:
What works: I'm sure this show will have its audience...
What doesn't: ...but boy am I not among them. The final product proves to be just as predictable and cliche-filled as we expected, a fact that's more than hampered by the surprising lack of spark between Wesley's Stefan and Dobrev's Elena. They, like just about everyone else here, come across as pretty porcelain dolls trying to emote to an endless array of top 40 needle drops. It's the kind of thing that may play well in five-minute trailers but not in actual 44-minute chunks. Stefan and Elena are together only because the script dictates them to be, rather than any kind of organic chemistry. Other wrenches in the machine include Damon's decidedly silly fog effect, which looks like something you'd see on a doorstep at Halloween; Stefan literally showing up behind every door Elena opens and around every corner she turns, which were he not so pretty would be called stalking; and a limp misdirection about who was behind the opening murders doesn't even remotely connect. More troubling however is that Williamson's wit and Plec's earnestness from the script (which we spotlighted previously) both kind of get lost amongst the sea of mopiness ("When someone asks 'How are you?', they really don't want an answer," Elena emotes into her journal) and predictability (Stefan shows up the history teacher with his knowledge, because he was there!). All in all, "Diaries" at best plays like a 44-minute music video for a much more interesting show and at worst a lifeless clone of...
The bottom line: ...things we've seen done before, and done much better
Ja se u globalu slažem s većinom njihovih kritika, tako da mi je ovo na dnu liste od novih serija
