Outlander Season 3 Episode 2, “Surrender,” turns Jamie into the Dunbonnet, forces Fergus to pay for loyalty, and shows Claire and Frank separated by more than time. Mary and Blake break down why surrender is really about family.
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Outlander Season 3 Episode 1, “The Battle Joined,” may be nearly the perfect episode of Outlander. Mary and Blake break down Culloden, Jamie and Black Jack Randall’s silent final fight, Rupert’s goodbye, and Claire’s impossible restart with Frank.
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When is a sign more than a sign? When it’s A. Malcolm’s print shop sign in Outlander Season 3. What do the signs and symbols mean?
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What would James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser’s online dating profile look like? We create an online dating profile to help him out.
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If you’ve watched or read Outlander, you might have thought to yourself once or twice that James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser is the perfect man. Maybe you even wished that you had a Jamie of your own or that your significant other was more like Jamie. I have to admit that, at times, Jamie does…
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Full spoilers for Outlander Seasons 1-3, including Wentworth, Faith, Culloden, and Black Jack Randall’s death. Content note: This episode discusses Black Jack Randall’s violence, sexual assault, abuse, and the trauma he causes Jamie and Claire. We discuss those events through the lens of story, character, and adaptation, not to excuse or romanticize them. In this…
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Take a walk with us through the history of Blackness Castle, aka Fort William, in this installment of Outlandish Locations.
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Diana Gabaldon makes reference to “trust” more than 60 times in the first two books of the Outlander series alone. (Trust me, I used Kindle Search to count.) It appears in all manner of references, like this simple-yet-powerful declaration Jamie makes to Claire in Outlander:“I decided to trust you instead.” Considering that trust is defined…
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Without revealing one smidgen of partisan detail, I will simply say that these past few months in the U.S. have been supremely distracting. After getting sucked into the quicksand of current events, I needed a break and I needed it bad. I needed the kind of distraction that could literally…
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Claire Fraser is the central heroine of Outlander: a World War II combat nurse, later a doctor, time traveler, wife to Jamie Fraser, mother to Brianna, healer, survivor, and the woman whose choices pull the entire story across centuries. Played by Caitríona Balfe in the Starz series, Claire begins the story as Claire Beauchamp Randall,…
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