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Outlander – Monsters and Heroes

The Power of Love, Blossoming Relationships & How Physical Closeness is Much More than Just Sex This week’s episode is another engaging hour of telly, filled with action and relationships, the cornerstone of all the best Outlander episodes. First and foremost, there is the love between Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe), so strong […]

Outlander – The Company We Keep

This week Outlander is well and truly back on track: Claire and Jamie are all loved up, more difficulties en route arrive, Jamie is in Highland Fling mode and the spectre of Stephen Bonnet casts a shadow at Fraser Ridge. While standing in for Jamie (Sam Heughan), Roger (Richard Rankin) shows that his previous career […]

Outlander – The Fiery Cross

Outlander is back! Love is in the air, trouble is brewing and an old friendship looks as if it’s on a collision course. Top and tailing the first episode of season 5 is the longest love story in Outlander– the bromance between Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix) and Jamie (Sam Heughan). In what promises to be one […]

Outlander – Providence

Things are hotting up (literally), Rankin acts his socks off, Brianna grows up while Lord John and Brianna’s relationship is delightful and surprisingly not in the least bit weird.Contains SPOILERS. Another week, another episode and Roger ‘Lucky’ MacKenzie’s (Richard Rankin) run of bad fortune isn’t showing any signs of improvement. Not surprisingly, he doesn’t manage […]

Outlander – If Not For Hope

Misdirection, Marriage Proposals and Making Up. Contains SPOILERS. This week’s episode opens with a sneaky bit of misdirection in the teaser before the opening credits when we are first led to believe that Roger (Richard Rankin) has headed back through the stones and is enjoying the advantages of 20th century indoor plumbing. It turns out […]

MY Outlander Review – Eye of the Storm

A Finale of Two Halves, Some Far-Fetched Heroics, Geillis in Nutty Scottish Nationalist Mode and Some Sexy Foreplay. Contains SPOILERS. From my perspective, this season’s finale was a bit of an anti-climax. Perhaps this was because the last two seasons finished with such strong episodes; or maybe because Season 3 was so enthralling at the […]

MY Outlander Review – Unchartered

Claire in Survival Mode, Comedy Gold from an Eccentric Priest and the Eye-Opening Side-Effects of Eating Turtle Soup. Contains SPOILERS. This week’s episode showcases what a capable, tough cookie Claire (Caitriona Balfe) is while giving us an insight into Claire’s feelings for Jamie (Sam Heughan). By far the less demonstrative half of the couple, this […]