Welcome back, all ye Sassenachs and Scotsmen! After all those lonely months polishing your standing stone circles, Outlander has returned for Season 3. As you’ll recall, last season ended in an uncertain—but hopeful—place, with 1968 Claire’s newfound knowledge that Jamie survived the Battle of Culloden. In this season’s first episode, we spend our time looking […]
This week’s Outlander introduces a new character to the series: Cave Jamie. We will treat Cave Jamie as a separate and discrete character because he is one. The show has done a little trickery and jumped us six years forward in the Lallybroch timeline. Cave Jamie has been living, indeed, in a cave, hiding from […]
There’s no reason to beat around the bush when it comes to this week’s episode of Pain and Suffering: The Miniseries Outlander. There’s plenty to talk about with Claire and Jamie, but let’s get the biggest news out of the way first: Murtaugh Fitzgibbons Fraser. He’s here, he’s chewing thistle against his will. You may […]
Quite a lot happened in last week’s episode of Outlander, and some of it, even, was not related to Murtaugh. This week, in “Of Lost Things,” we take our foot ever so slightly off the gas, though nothing is ever truly quiet in the love and lives of Claire and Jamie. Let’s start in 1968 […]
What’s interesting about this season of Outlander is the shift in storytelling perspective. For the first five episodes of the season, we’ve been immersed in both Claire and Jamie’s perspectives throughout their sad, lonely journeys. And we continue that approach one more time this week with a look at Jamie’s side of the fateful morning […]