Vampiress TV Review: Glory Days

Lost Girls

Season 1

Episode 5

Glory Days was a short lived night time supernatural drama that aired on the WB Network in late 2002/early 2003.  The premise is basically a cop and a writer living in a small town where weird things happen every week resulting in cases they have to solve. 

In this episode three vampire women show up in the town of glory around the same time a womans body is found drained of all her blood. 

The first of the vampires we meet is Rosalyn who seems to have a thing for Sherriff Rudy as she shows up wherever he does determined to get him to be with her. 

Then you have Jade who is the ring leader of the group who does most of the talking.  Her eyes are specifically on young Zane.  She is played by the legendary Canadian vampire actress Meghan Ory (Supernatural, Vampire High, Sanctuary)

And finally, you have Sharla who is just a background character who says nothing but makes really good fang out faces in the scenes where the other two do.

We eventually find out they are not vampires but college girls doing a sociology experiment where they see how people react to being attacked by a vampire and have nothing to do with the murder in the town.  

It's lazy writing as clearly they just needed an excuse to have hot vampire women on a show on the WB without outright biting off of Buffy or Angel and this was the best they could do.  Thankfully the network would do a bit better over the years for the vampire genre after the WB/UPN merger into the CW in 2006.  Outside the horrible reveal this was a decent episode. 

Vampiress TV Review: Reaper

I Want My Baby Back
Season 2
Episode: 5

In this episode of the CW series Sam whose job is to collect the souls that escape from hell for his father the devil along with his friends are sent out to find a serial killer who drank her victims blood when she is alive.  

Upon meeting her she is freaked out and says that they can't have something.  

She then jumps down from the second floor and reveals herself to be an actual vampire. 

She is then destroyed by Sam via a stake through the heart while she's attacking one of the other guys. 

Final Opinion: OK Episode but the vampirism ends here.  The bulk of the show revolves around the guys trying to figure out what to do with her child as well as Bert trying to work on trying not to lust after his step sister and Morgan trying to hit on Andi.  In other words everything but vampires.  I give it a Vampire Beauty Rating of 3 out of 5. 

Nina Dobrev leaving Vampire Diaries

Last week Nina Dobrev who's played the character Elena (as well as what seems like hundreds of Elena dopplegangers) announced that she was leaving the show after the current season (Season 6) ends.

Seemingly after every season there is some type of speculation regarding one of the big 3 of the show leaving so this should come as no surprise to fans of the series.  While I do believe the show might take a slight hit in the ratings it is after all a primarily female fanbase so keeping the male leads on board should soften the blow.  On top of that season six has so far pretty much taken the focus off of the Elena character altogether and replaced her with Caroline as the female lead.

So does this mean it won't be watchable for guys?

Not Necessarily.  So far as mentioned above the character of Caroline Forbes has become a bratty kind of evil so she fangs out a lot more than she used to (which was hardly ever).

Also the Salvatores mother Lillian (played by Annie Wersching) has been discovered as one of the evil undead as well so there is hope going forward for some crazy cougar biting.

  Vampire Diaries airs Thursdays on the CW Network in the US.