Outlander

This season finale is Outlander at its absolute worst. Whole seasons ago, I wrote that the show was over-relying on…

With the series’ main villain out of the way, Outlander is back to focusing on the other conflict that has been…

Outlander’s set pieces and landscapes are a huge part of its visual appeal. Like any period piece, it’s driven…

“Monsters and Heroes” is immediately a quintessential episode of Outlander. It’s the most straightforward example of…

“Famous Last Words” deals with the traumatic aftermath of last episode’s haunting final image: Roger hung from a…

Outlander has often delved into the horrors of war with an intense focus on the actual humans who fight it. The show…

We’re now six episodes into season five of Outlander, and I’m struggling to grasp at exactly what the season is…

In “Perpetual Adoration,” Outlander employs an extended metaphor regarding time. Time is god and memory is devil.…

Week to week, Outlander decides what kind of show it’s going to be. It’s an impressive and occasionally overwhelming…

Though it started with a wedding, season five of Outlander wastes no time mounting several sources of conflict at…

“Time, space, history be damned,” Claire tells Brianna. “Between Two Fires” actively engages with the challenges and…

Fittingly for a time-traveling love story, Outlander opens its fifth season with a lovely travel back in time. This…

Outlander doesn’t often put its time-travel conceit at the forefront of the show, but every once in a while it…

Outlander’s passionate defense of true love has long been foundational to its narrative. Jamie and Claire have gone…

“If Not For Hope” fractures the core Outlander group once more, sending Jamie and Claire on a dangerous…

“You don’t get to be more angry than me.” Brianna, at last, gets to exert her agency in Outlander’s “The Deep…

Outlander over-relies on sexual assault as a plot device. I say that as someone who has praised its depictions of…

“Wilmington” highlights—in the most horrifying of ways—Outlander’s persistent Brianna problem. The show has never…

Outlander without Jamie and Claire is, unsurprisingly, a bit like a ship without its captain. They drive the show,…

In many ways, “Blood Of My Blood” feels like a throwback episode of Outlander in its rather simple story structure…