Legacies (which ran for 4 seasons) follows Klaus’s daughter, Hope Mikaelson, at the Salvatore School for the Young & Gifted. While the parents are gone, their legacy (pun intended) lives on through flashbacks and mentions. Absolutely. While The Vampire Diaries focused on high school romance, The Originals is a darker, more mature show about family, power, and sacrifice. Five seasons is the perfect length—long enough to fall in love with the characters, but short enough to avoid the "zombie season" slump that plagues many long-running fantasy shows.
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But before you click "play," you might be asking: how many seasons are there for the originals