Assuming you’re still on this side of the stones, you likely have heard that the Outlander family expanded this week with the announcement that young Ian Murray and Joe Abernathy have been cast. Murray will be played by John Bell while Joe Abernathy will be portrayed by Wil Johnson. These two characters play pivotal roles…
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You all know who you are. You’ve watched Outlander so much you can quote entire scenes from memory. If you’re a book fan, you’ve likely read the books so often that they fall open to your favorite passages. Maybe, just maybe, you own a piece or two of Outlander gear (plaid kilt anyone?). In other…
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Ach, Droughtlander. That inevitable purgatory between Outlander seasons. What’s an Obsessenach to do? (You know, besides obsessively stalking social media for even the slightest tidbit of what’s happening in Scotland on set? Because, yes, the gods be praised, they are FINALLY starting to shoot season 3!) Why, obsessively rewatch Season 2, of course, and create what…
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I was as frantic for the finale of Outlander Season 2 as the next Obsessenach. How would they tie up the multiple loose ends? Would this 90-minute episode give us the conclusion we need to survive the always-interminable #Droughtlander? Most important of all, would the finale make me (and other fans I’ve been chatting with about this)…
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Leon Tolstoy wrote famously in Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” We saw this in spades in the Outlander season 2 episode, “The Hail Mary,” where we have the Battle of the Brothers on the eve of the Culloden Moor disaster. In one corner, we have Alex Randall and his…
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We all knew when we started Season 2 of Outlander that eventually we would have to face #Droughtlander — that long interminable break while Ron D. Moore et al work their magic to create Season 3. What we did not realize was that we were going to have to live through #SexDroughtlander as well. Yes,…
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Time for this week’s Outlander social media wrap-up, that post we’re doing semi-regularly to help free up your lives from A) obsessive behavior B) getting fired from your job because you’re trolling Tumblr etc. on your phone when you should be writing some verra critical TPS report and/or C) ensuring you don’t miss the critical social…
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Yes, we all (re)watch Outlander obsessively. But what’s a fan to do for those in-between moments —beyond joining and responding to vital posts in an embarrassing number of Facebook groups? Why follow the Outlander cast and crew on social media, of course. It’s a full-time job and there are only so many — hypothetically speaking,…
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By now we have all — maybe — stopped weeping over episode 7 of Outlander. The script, the set, the ACTING — “Faith” was the episode where season two finally came together in one glorious hour of outstanding television. Move over “The Wedding.” “Faith” may supersede you for fan rewatching. This is the also the episode…
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Starz CEO Chris Albrecht made a startling announcement this week: He’s moving the cable channel’s original programming from Saturday to Sunday nights, starting in July with Power. That means that season 3 of Outlander — yes, yes it’s going to happen! — would go up against the likes of Game of Thrones on HBO and Homeland on…
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