Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 16 (Season 1 finale)

Warning: This contains spoilers.

And so we reach the end of Outlander Season 1, a show that has been uneven – mostly in a good way – in its attempts to bring Diana Gabaldon’s historical fantasy romance to the screen. … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 15 (Wentworth Prison)

Not seen Episodes 1 to 14? This will contain spoilers. Already seen Episode 15? Read on at the bottom for some additional, spoiler-filled analysis.

So, Wentworth Prison. Jamie’s held captive. Claire and Murtagh are on their way to rescue him. … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 14 (The Search)

Not seen Episodes 1 to 13? This will contain spoilers. Already seen Episode 14? Read on at the bottom for some additional, spoiler-filled analysis.

After Jamie was held at gunpoint, last week gave us another cliffhanger involving Jamie in peril: … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 13 (The Watch)

Not seen Episodes 1 to 12? This will contain spoilers. Already seen Episode 13? Read on at the bottom for some additional, spoiler-filled analysis.

After last week’s gunpoint cliffhanger, things continue to take a turn for the violent in Episode … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 12 (Lallybroch)

Already seen Episode 12? Keep reading at the end for some additional, spoiler-filled notes.

So, the secret’s out. Jamie knows everything there is to know about Claire. That’s it. Show’s over. Everyone can go home.

Except, it isn’t. There are … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 11

Warning: This contains spoilers.

“It’s not what you are. It’s what you think they are.”

That’s Ned Gowen to Claire and Geillis in Episode 11 of Outlander, as they face a court of witch-burning, devil-fearing Scotsfolk. It’s a welcome threat … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 10

After last week’s episode of Outlander tackled the thorny subjects of gender equality and physical abuse – not entirely un-controversially – this week’s begins as far away from such things as possible: with an extended session of (ahem) female pleasure. … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 9

Warning: This contains minor spoilers.

If the first half of Outlander Season 1 was a celebration of a woman’s independent identity, it concluded with a bit of a dilemma: the rescuing of Claire from the clutches of Black Jack Randall. … Read More

Amazon Prime UK TV review: Outlander Episode 1

A man and a woman break into an abandoned castle. They run down into the basement. She perches on the table. He leans in to kiss her. She stops him – and pushes his head down towards her legs.

It’s … Read More