Outlander Is the Genre-Busting, Convention-Breaking Show We All Need Right Now—Thanks to Its Deliciously Complicated Leading Ladies

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.”

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Claire Will Unravel in Dark and Intense – Season 6

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. 

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Find Out Why Outlander Executive Producer Maril Davis Calls Season 6 ‘a Rollercoaster Ride More Than Any Other Season’

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.”

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Caitriona Balfe’s Celtic Conquest from Vanity Faire

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.”

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Congratulations to Diana on NY Times Bestseller!

Congratulations to Diana on NY Times Bestseller!

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!

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Graham McTavish Cast in HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’

Graham McTavish Cast in HBO’s ‘House of the Dragon’

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.

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Casting News. Meet the Christies!

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.

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Official Trailer for the Nevers

Coming April 11 you can watch The Nevers with Laura Donnelly on HBO.

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Outlander Season 4 is on Netflix

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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