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The holidays are coming to The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted on Legacies – but probably not the holiday you would associate with the school – Christmas!

Showrunner Julie Plec spoke to TV Guide about the upcoming episode centering around the festive holiday.

“We’re very excited about it. It’s hilarious. It’s super Christmas-y,” she shared. “All I can say about it is it’s not actually set on Christmas. So you have to say, ‘What is making the Christmas spirit supernaturally infect Mystic Falls?’”

During San Diego Comic-Con earlier this summer, Julie and exec producer Brett Matthews shared that an Evil Santa Claus episode was in the works, and teased that Quincy Fouse‘s MG would be “extremely troubled if all of his friends are plotting to kill Santa.”

Legacies airs Thursdays on The CW.

Alaric (Matthew Davis) and Josie (Kaylee Bryant) meet with Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) in this still from the season two premiere of Legacies!

In “I’ll Never Give Up Hope”, after discovering that there may be a way out of Malivore, Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) becomes more determined than ever to find her way back to Mystic Falls. Alaric, who is still reeling after being voted out as headmaster by the honor council, continues looking into the mysterious night Malivore was destroyed.

Elsewhere, as the students leave for summer vacation, Landon stays behind to keep an eye on Rafael (Peyton Alex Smith), while MG (Quincy Fouse) heads to Atlanta to spend time with Kaleb’s (guest star Chris Lee) family. Finally, while Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) spends the summer in Europe with Caroline, Josie searches for answers about the mysterious ascendant that Alaric was keeping from them.

Legacies returns TONIGHT (October 10) at 9pm ET/PT on The CW!

Now that Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) is gone, showrunner Julie Plec dishes on how the rest of the characters are doing in her absence.

In the season one finale, Hope jumped into Malivore, erasing her from everyone’s memory.

“Much like time travel, if you ask too many questions and apply too much logic, the entire system breaks down, so what we had to do was apply just enough logic in what we showed with Landon’s mom and all the other characters that disappeared into Malivore, which is that even though they are forgotten, the experience and the wisdom learned from them is not gone,” Julie shared with EW.

“So Landon is a more confident person now than he was when he started, even though Hope has been erased from his memory. So these are characters that had all those experiences last year. It’s just that the blanks have been filled in for them by their subconscious so they don’t realize that there was one person who’s responsible for all of it,” she continued. “So as such, they don’t realize that what they’re missing is that person and that while everything seems fine and their life seems good, there’s a hole that they don’t know how to fill because they can’t identify it. It’s been fun and it just provides all kinds of opportunity for great new tension and romantic shifts and big life moves and all those things.

If you missed the news, Thomas Doherty is going to be playing a new vampire on Legacies in the new season and Jenny Boyd is letting us know all about him.

Speaking with TV Guide, the actress says that Lizzie is very much about Sebastian.

“Lizzie develops feelings for him very quickly,” she shared. “He’s kind of an Ian Somerhalder type — smoldery, old-school guy — so that’s definitely her jam… He’s a little bit ‘Smolderhalder’ 2.0, you know? He’s got that vibe, that really sexy, just impossibly beautiful human type of thing going on.”

Showrunner Julie Plec added that Thomas’ character is an “old, old, old-world vampire” who was “desiccated when he was 17 in maybe the 15th century and now wakes up in the 21st century and realizes that all the rules of being a vampire have changed and that he does not fit in into this very modern world.”

Don’t worry though, Lizzie is there to help him out.

“Lizzie obviously has strong opinions about everything, so we’ll see how that plays out in their relationship,” Jenny adds. “It’s kind of that line between lust and hate at times, maybe. You know this thing of, like, ‘Oh, I really like you, but I don’t like that I like you.’”

Legacies premieres on Thursday on The CW.

Legacies is returning for season two next week on The CW and with it, we might get a new romance with Landon and Josie.

Kaylee Bryant and Aria Shahghasemi chatted with TV Guide about a possible thing happening with the two characters, who were the only ones to stay at the school over the summer.

So far though, it’s just a friendship.

“This is the first time that they’ve had absolutely nothing to do — no monsters, no sister, no problems, just the two of them. So you kind of get to see them interact,” Kaylee says.

“Whether or not it becomes romantic, I think, is a question of timing,” Aria adds.

However, what does that mean for Hope, when she returns? Danielle Rose Russell revealed that Hope wouldn’t be happy about it.

“I can’t imagine that Hope would react to Landon and Josie well at all,” she shared. “She still loves him, and it’s not like she’s forgotten anyone, you know. It’s the opposite… It’s kind of been interesting because with Hope going into Malivore, it’s allowed us to do different things with the show, and kind of giving us an actual, valid reason to do that.”

Danielle adds, “So I think that it’s interesting to have explored different love dynamics and different relationship dynamics this season, but yeah, it’s kind of very heartbreaking to see.”

Legacies returns on Thursday, October 10th.

Riley Voelkel is bringing back Freya!

The 29-year-old actress is returning to her role as Freya and popping up on Legacies in the upcoming season, TV Guide reports.

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There’s no word yet on what brings Freya to the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted in the sixth episode of the new season, but we can’t wait to find out.

Previously, Riley has opened up about bringing Freya back to check in on Hope (Danielle Rose Russell). However, with Hope in Malivore, those plans might be changing.

Legacies returns on October 10th on The CW.

The new trailer for Legacies‘ upcoming second season is here!

In the clip, Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) says the title line of the first episode, “I’ll never give up hope.” We also get a glimpse at a new professor, played by Alexis Denisof.

Here’s a synopsis: Season two will show us a world without Hope Mikaelson (Danielle Rose Russell) and all the chaos that goes along with it. All the while, Hope will be trying to find her way back to the school she has learned to call home and the friends she has learned to love like family. It will be filled with new monsters and more romantic and emotional surprises than ever.

In case you missed it, find out all the actors that have been added to the cast for the second season.

Legacies season two premieres on Thursday, October 10th at 9/8c on The CW!