Season: 2
Genre: Thriller/
Drama/ Mystery/ Crime
Number of
episodes: 13
Year:
2016
Starring: Catriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan LaCroix, Tobias Menzies, Graham
MacTavish, Laura Donnelly, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, Romann Berrux
Description: An English
combat nurse (Catriona Balfe) from 1945 is mysteriously swept back in time to
1743.
Review: To sum up
season 1: Claire, on her second honeymoon, disappears without a trace and ends
up in 1743 Scotland. There she falls in love with the gorgeous, red-haired
highlander Jamie Fraser. She marries him and adapts to the life in 1743. Meanwhile
her husband Frank, in a completely different time, looks for his wife. The first
season of “Outlander” had a lot to offer and left us all wanting more. That first season ended with the departure of
Claire and Jamie to France. There Claire tells a wounded and abused Jamie that
he is going to be a father. With that image the first season ended.
Then the start of season 2.
Claire is back in 1948, lying in front of the stones. With just one question
burning on her lips: who won Culloden? The English or the Scots? Were they able
to change history as discussed? The answer came as a shock to her. And Frank is
also in shock. His beloved Claire is finally back after three years. And she is
pregnant.
What happened in those three
years can be seen in the second season of “Outlander”. Can Jamie and Claire change history? Can they
make the Scots win Culloden and can they secure their own future in Scotland?
Was the second season as
good as the first? No, unfortunately not. The first season was good, perfect,
romantic, exciting, emotional and I felt the bond between Jamie and Claire. In the
second season, I missed that connection from time to time. And the parts set in
France aren’t as exciting as the parts set in Scotland. So the second half of
the season is better then the first. The season focuses more on Claire, not so
much on Claire and Jamie together.
But that feeling I missed
for most of the season, was all brought back in the final episode. The 90
minute finale is beautiful. The episodes sometimes switch between 1746 and
1968, where we see an older Claire, her daughter Brianna and Roger Wakefield. In
1746 we see the desperate Claire, who wants to stay with Jamie. And the
determined Jamie, who is prepared to die on the battlefield. He demands that
Claire goes back to her own time, and raise their child.
At the very end, the opening
scenes of season 2 finally make sense and the circle is connected. And again we
are left wanting more.
