[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Season 6, Episode 6 of Outlander, “The World Turned Upside Down.”]
The latest episode of Outlander made way for shocking reveals and even bigger mysteries as tensions rise on Fraser’s Ridge.
It’s official. Season 7 has begun filming. I’m thinking that means a much smaller droughtlander. Thank goodness.
I’ve heard fans worrying about Outlander not getting an eighth season but I’m not that concerned. We can’t really reference the live viewer ratings as that is all they are and how many of you stream? Streamers aren’t contributing to that number and we aren’t privy to the streaming numbers.
Outlander Season 6 has crossed the halfway point in this shortened season. Den Of Geek was unable to visit Jamie and Claire’s living room, but we did have a long chat with Christiana Ebohon-Green to go behind the scenes on episodes 4 and 5, discover more about her directing style, and also what it means to be a Black professional in a predominately white UK media industry.
Save for the visits to the Cherokee and Mohawk villages, the majority of Outlander Season 6 has played out on Fraser’s Ridge—but in episode 5, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe) head to Wilmington to hear Flora MacDonald (Shauna Macdonald), former Jacobite now a Loyalist, speak.
Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sunday’s episode of Outlander.
If adopting Jamie’s love child as his own son wasn’t enough, Jamie now wants Lord John to help cover up the fact that he’s decided to throw his lot in with the rebels in the American Revolution. After trying to suss out Jamie’s loyalties (the man is good at playing both sides!), Lord John gets Jamie to admit that he will be attending the Sons of Liberty meeting not as a spy, but as a supporter of the cause.
A familiar face returns to Outlander tonight, but you might not immediately recognize him. In the opening scenes of this evening’s episode, actor Andrew Gower reprises his role of Bonnie Prince Charlie in a flashback, showing how he escaped to the Isle of Skye, with the help of Flora MacDonald—and a clever disguise. The scene, while hard to believe, is straight out of a history book. Indeed, MacDonald helped the Young Pretender (aka Charles Edward Stuart) escape to Skye by dressing him as her servant in women’s clothes.
When we last left Outlander at the end of Season 5, the men of Fraser’s Ridge had freed Claire from her abductors and rapists and Marsali had poisoned one of the men behind the attack, while Bree and Roger failed to travel back to the late 1960’s. Season 6 picks up the thread of increased political and social tensions in the colony of North Carolina as the story is now very close to the start of the American Revolution. Jamie has to appear loyal to the Crown because he was granted Fraser’s Ridge but he knows from Claire, Brianna and Roger that the colonists will eventually rebel and win.
Outlander, the genre busting and wildly entertaining Starz series, adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling books, has built a true fandom over its past five seasons. While many of the TV series that inspire deep devotion tend to be—we’ll just come out with it— a little nerdy, and more than a little male-oriented, Outlander is as riveting as it is relatable. And while fans painstakingly unpack episodes, trade theories about plot points and obsess over the show’s historical underpinnings, it’s ultimately a character-driven enterprise. The action hinges on time-travel, and there’s no shortage of romance, but the appeal of the drama is its expertly-drawn characters—especially its female protagonists. Never stereotypical, the series shows women as the multi-dimensional forces they are. “You know, it’s funny, my knee jerk reaction is always that we’re not setting out to make a statement about women,” says executive producer Maril Davis. “We’re just trying to show women as they are, in their most natural, amazing state.”
According to many news sources online, Starz is going forward with the prequel of Outlander which will focus on Ellen MacKenize (Jamie’s mother) which will be based on a book Gabaldon is writing on Jamie’s matriarch.
Matthew B. Roberts is returning to write and produce and additions to the spin-offs writers room are apparently in the works.
When Outlander returns for its sixth season on Starz beginning Sunday, March 6, fans will finally witness the aftermath of Season 5’s heinous attack on Claire (Caitriona Balfe). What happens next with her and husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) as they deal with the fallout? In a departure from the Diana Gabaldon novel, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, on which Season 6 is based, more focus will be placed on Claire’s struggles to recover and deal with what we would today label PTSD.
“When we read the books, it’s dealt with in little bits and bobs here and there, but she never really deals with it,” Outlander executive producer Maril Davis exclusively tells Parade. “And it felt like such a traumatic experience that it didn’t seem like we could ignore that, and it didn’t seem like we did justice to the character if we did. And so, we really leaned into that. I think the writers did an amazing job with coming up with this coping mechanism for Claire.”
Check out all the names of the 8 episodes of season six. There will be 12 episodes of season 6. Because of Covid and Cait’s pregnancy the rest of the season will be tacked onto season 7.
As a child, Caitríona Balfe never found it strange when a trip to the dentist or to a clothing store involved driving by British soldiers with machine guns, or having the family car inspected for explosives. There were frequent bomb scares too, around where she grew up in Tydavnet, a small Irish village near the Northern Ireland border, and sometimes on the news she’d hear about a nearby community that had been hit. “It’s such a part of the fabric of your life when you live in those areas,” she says. “It’s really not until you get older that you look back and you realize the craziness of it, or the strangeness of it.”
Check out Davina’s 5 short videos of Q&A about narrating the Outlander audiobooks and what it is like to narrate loves scenes…
Congratulations to Diana Gabaldon on Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone becoming a New York Times Best Seller at #1 for Combined Print & E-Book Fiction! Of course, we all knew that could happen and as I read (no I’m not finished), it truly is a great book…. which I plan on listening to as well. I hope you are all enjoying it! We should stop by Diana’s Twitter and congratulate her!
HBO is at it again with the Game of Thrones world and this time we get to see Graham McTavish (Dougal MacKenzie, Buck MacKenzie) in the world of dragons (though we know he’s not new to those creatures). Will he be a Targaryen? I guess we’ll have to watch and find out. House of the Dragon is to premiere in 2022.
The names of 4 of the 12 8 episodes have been leaked from and official source though Starz has yet to confirm them. Here are the titles:
You heard right. Book 9 Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone is hitting shelves on November 23, 2021. I know what a lot of Outlander fans will be doing on Thanksgiving…. reading. I know I will. In fact, chances are I’m going to be annoyed by anyone who wants to do Thanksgiving and won’t leave me to read.
You can pre-order Bees over at Amazon…
Meet Malva, Tom and Allan Christie! Check out the videos below…
Tom Christie will be played by Mark Lewis Jones (Gangs of London). Tom is the head of the Christie family, father to Allan and Malva. Tom was a prisoner of Ardsmuir along with Jamie. Old tensions continue when the devout Protestant brings his family to Fraser’s Ridge to settle.
Coming April 11 you can watch The Nevers with Laura Donnelly on HBO.
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The last year has made for some serious uncertainty but Starz and the cast of Outlander just announced Outlander will have a 7th season.
Looks like Men in Kilts will be gracing our Starz subscriptions on Valentine’s Day. What a treat for us! Happy Valentine’s Day here is two attractive Scotsmen. Nice!
Season 4 of Outlander is on Netflix as of today so anyone who hasn’t seen it head on over to Netflix to watch and for those who have seen it and own it… you know you want to watch it. Just do it.
According to Fansided we are looking at May 2022 for Season 5 to pop up on Netflix. I’m sure that will give you plenty of time to find them on DVD to go nuts waiting. Either way it is coming.
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