The Originals Review

Greetings everyone,

How are you all doing? If you will ask me, it is pretty great in my end of the spectrum. I am writing today to inform all of you that I have finished watching the three season of the American TV series The Originals, and I hope to share my thoughts to you about the TV series.

First and foremost, for those of you who don’t know what The Originals is about, I am going to share a little summary about it. The Originals is a spin-off from the American supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries which is based on the book series The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith. The Originals centered on the story of the first vampires, Niklaus Mikaelson, a hybrid- who is half-vampire and half-werewolf, and his siblings Elijah and Rebekah, who is trying to get back the city that they originally built, New Orleans, from his protégé Marcel Gerard, while dealing with a war that is brewing against witches, vampires and werewolves.

The first season is all about giving credit where credit is due. The Mikaelson siblings returned to the city they call home, New Orleans, for the first time since 1919 when their father, Mikael, drove them out of it. When they arrived at New Orleans they discovered that the city that they built was now run by the boy they adopted centuries back. Filled with jealousy Niklaus aim to take back what is rightfully his’ and his family’s, all the while dealing with a werewolf girl, Hayley, who is carrying his child that needs protection from the witches who claims it is the abomination of their kind.

In the second season, the series took it up a notch when their mother, Esther, and their two brothers, Kol and Finn, were resurrected from the dead and now live in the bodies of witches. Their mother was a powerful witch who created what they are today, and who so badly desire to reverse what she has done. The family drama got even more intense when their oldest sister, Freya, whom their mother said died on the plague a thousand years ago, came to them with a news that endangered Niklaus’ daughter. Freya was given to their aunt Dahlia, who is a very powerful witch, by their mother as the sacrifice for giving her the fertility she needed to bear children. However it does not only end with Freya, every first born child of the Mikaelson family is to be sacrifice to Dahlia, which made Niklaus’ daughter vulnerable. And so Niklaus did everything that he can to protect his daughter, even cursed his child’s mother in wolf form and only turned to human form every full moon.

The third season was full of revenge plot against the Mikaelson family. It was all based on a prophecy that: they will all fall, one by friend, one by foe, and one by a family. All their sire lines showed up at their door offering to help them, by locking them away until the prophecy will pass. Because if an original vampire will die every single vampire they turned will die as well. A coven of witches who uses dark magic severed the link of Niklaus and all the vampire he sired. Lucien, who was the first vampire sired by Niklaus and who wanted so bad to be Niklaus’ better, made himself a creature far much lethal than Niklaus with the aid of the ancestors of witches. The Mikaelsons all became paranoid and took the necessary precaution until Freya discovered a loophole that allowed her to make Lucien an ordinary vampire again. However, it all came with a great sacrifice and that is Davina, a shunned witch who Marcel thinks of as his daughter and the only person Kol loved. Marcel was so angry with the Mikaelson that he turned himself into the creature that Lucien became and fulfilled the prophecy that led to the downfall of all the Mikaelson.

I was easily hooked by the series The Originals, maybe because I do have a soft spot for a good vampire story or maybe because I do have a soft spot for gentlemen who has accent that is to die for. Kidding aside, I like this TV series a lot because its morale always comes down to the value of family; that family is power. And no matter how hideous it is the things you have done or no matter how many enemies you have made in your lifetime, family is always and forever going to be there for you, to hope with you, and to love with you. Also I like The Originals because it made me feel things that I was not prepared to feel: assurance, overjoy, sadness, and hope. 

The series The Originals is filled to the brim with stories about family, friendship, enemies, love, death and vengeance, so if you are looking for a great way to spend the holidays without leaving your house, you surely need to watch this series and you will surely enjoy it. A little bit of warning: be prepared to fall in love with the Mikaelson brothers.

Love,

Niña Liza