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Outlander – Free Will

Jamie’s Back, Indentured Servants, Child Brides, A House of Horrors, but where’s the plot? Jamie (Sam Heughan) is back at the Ridge (not a euphemism) but not for long, as he explains to an understandably disappointed Claire (Caitriona Balfe). He’s stopping just long enough to gather a militia and then returning to Hillsborough. Ever the […]

Outlander: Between Two Fires

Murtagh proves he’s incapable of keeping a low profile, Jamie is in a bind and Claire, as usual, is throwing caution to the wind. Despite Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) request to Murtagh(Duncan Lacroix) to be hard to find, Murtagh does the exact opposite when he becomes the ringleader of a group of Regulators who storm into […]

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 – Man of Worth

Sterling Acting from Rankin Again, Murtagh Gets a Love Life and Heughan Seems to Have Been Short Changed. Contains SPOILERS. Thanks to the exceptional navigational skills that all Outlander characters seem to be blessed with, Claire (Caitriona Balfe), Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Ian (John Bell) arrive at Shadow Lake attempting to trade for Roger’s (Richard […]

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 […]

Outlander – The Birds and The Bees

This week’s episode pulls no punches both literally, after all it is Jamie doing the hitting, and emotionally, when Jamie finally meets his daughter. Contains SPOILERS. At its heart Outlander is all about love. It’s one of the main reasons why the books and TV series are so compelling. There is romantic love as depicted […]

Outlander – Wilmington

Full Marks to the Outlander Production Team in Dealing with a Difficult Scene So Well. If Nothing Else, the Wilmington Episode Makes Clear the Stark Difference between Sex and Rape This week’s episode is a tale of two halves – Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) are in Wilmington, summoned by Governor Tryon (Tim […]

Outlander – Down the Rabbit Hole

No Jamie or Claire this week, instead the focus is on the trials and tribulations of Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger (Richard Rankin), with the added bonus of a surprise return by one of Outlander’s stalwarts in the form of Brianna’s 20th century father, Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies). Thus this week’s show begins with Brianna, […]

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 […]

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