Monthly Archives: November 2018

Outlander – Common Ground

Settling Down, Surprises, Shock Endings – Outlander This Week is Back on Track. CONTAINS SPOILERS This week’s episode opens with Jamie (Sam Heughan) signing a deal with the British government to be the proud owner of 10,000 acres of land. All things considered, it’s a rather generous land grant though it remains to be seen […]

Outlander – The False Bride

Brianna and Roger Almost Get Together, Claire Almost Gets Lost and Things Get Weird in the Woods. CONTAINS SPOILERS At the start of this week’s episode we’ve moved forward in time and back across the ocean to 1970s Scotland, where Roger (Richard Rankin) has sold off the house (presumably it’s not the manse then?) and […]

Outlaw King

Bloody Battle Scenes and Gutsy Heroes Come Together in a Visual Feast. Medieval Scottish History gets the Hollywood Treatment Yet Again. Outlaw King neatly sums up the adage that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. The eponymous king is Robert the Bruce, a thorn in the side to the English but a hero […]

Outlander – Do No Harm

An Uncomfortable Watch, An Impossible Decision & the Pros and Cons of Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth. Contains Spoilers. Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) arrive at River Run and finally get to meet Jamie’s Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy). River Run turns out to be an impressively wealthy estate but it […]

Outlander – America The Beautiful

The moral of this week’s episode would seem to be: no good deed goes unpunished, though saying that, unusually for Outlander, the opening episode of Season 4 is rather a slow burner that’s if you discount the first 10 minutes or so and the last 5, neither of which proves fortunate for either of Jamie’s […]