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What Henry’s Watch Means in Outlander: Blood of My Blood

August 15, 2025 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

If Episode 2 wanted one object to quietly run the whole hour, it’s Henry’s watch.

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Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 2 Review — “SWAK” Makes the Beauchamps Matter

August 15, 2025 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

“SWAK” is the episode where Blood of My Blood stops feeling like a clever spinoff gimmick and starts feeling like a story with its own emotional engine

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Where The Clans Stand This Week: “Providence” Opened the Gate

August 13, 2025 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

If the temperature is probably this: the fandom is in — but with one eyebrow raised.

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Did Julia and Henry Travel Through the Stones in Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 1?

August 13, 2025 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

The episode is about as close to a Yes as you can get without a character turning to the camera and shouting it in your face.

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Outlander: Blood of My Blood Episode 1 Review — “Providence” Finally Understands the Assignment

August 13, 2025 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

I’m just going to say it plainly: “Providence” works because it remembers that Outlander is not just plot. It is mood.

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Who Are Julia and Henry Beauchamp in Outlander: Blood of My Blood?

August 13, 2025 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

If the Blood of My Blood premiere wanted to make one thing clear right away, it’s this: Julia and Henry Beauchamp are not just cute little franchise connective tissue

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How They Made It: A Chat with Diana Gabaldon

October 30, 2022 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 6 Comments

Welcome back to our occasional series, “How They Made It,” where we explore the food and drink of Outlander. This time we’re chatting with Herself, Diana Gabaldon, about the food and drink she includes in her books, plus a bit about her background, too. Slainté! (Note: some of the links on this page can be…

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Over the Sea to Skye: Escape of the Bonnie Prince

April 16, 2022 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

“Mark me,” the tale I am about to tell is indeed one of epic proportions. A tale of a man defeated, but who escapes death with the help of a certain female heroine. A tale of truth. We explore how the Bonnie Prince Charlie inspired a nation, a movement, a young woman, and the song…

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5,045 Miles: The Trail of Tears

April 13, 2022 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

“It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another.” – John Silver (Black Sails) Jamie is tasked with an impossible choice, irreparably change history for the worse by warning Chief Bird about the ultimate fate the the Cherokee tribe, or watch them all trudge onward to their death,…

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The Braw Men of Outlander’s Fraser’s Ridge

March 22, 2022 Blake Blogs, Mary & Blake Blog 0 Comments

Outlander’s latest episode packs an emotional punch, shouldered heavily by a quartet of worthy performances by the braw men of Fraser’s Ridge.

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