Outlander executive producer Maril Davis joins Mary & Blake to explain how the show found Jamie and Claire, why Diana Gabaldon’s books could not be movies, and what it actually takes to keep a production like Outlander moving. This is the producer interview that explains the machine behind the magic. Ronald D. Moore gives you…
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Outlander showrunner Ronald D. Moore joins Mary & Blake to explain Frank, the Season 1 finale, and why Diana Gabaldon’s book had to become television instead of a movie. The real value of this interview is not simply that Ronald D. Moore came on the podcast, although Blake absolutely geeks out because this is the…
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Outlander writer and executive producer Ira Steven Behr joins Mary & Blake to talk Black Jack Randall, Wentworth Prison, “To Ransom A Man’s Soul,” and why the Season 1 finale never flinched. That is the real value of this interview. This is not just a behind-the-scenes victory lap. It is not just a “how did…
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 16, “To Ransom A Man’s Soul,” understands something brutal: survival is not the same as being saved. Jamie Fraser is out of Wentworth Prison. That should be the victory. Claire got him out. Murtagh got the cattle into the prison. Angus and Rupert helped create the chaos. Black Jack Randall is…
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Outlander Season 1 Episode 15, “Wentworth Prison,” is the episode where Jamie is saved by the worst man alive. That is the horror of it. Jamie Fraser is standing at the gallows. He is seconds away from death. The noose is ready. The redcoats are doing their work. Taran MacQuarrie has just died badly in…
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