Season: 3
Genre: Thriller/
Drama/ Mystery/ Crime
Number of
episodes: 13
Year:
2017
Starring: Catriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Laura Donnelly, Sophie
Skelton, Richard Rankin, John Bell, Lauren Lyle, César Domboy
Description: An English
combat nurse (Catriona Balfe) from 1945 is mysteriously swept back in time to
1743.
Review: Voyager: the
title of the third book the series written by Diana Gabaldon and the basis for
the third season of “Outlander”.
Let’s take a look back. The last episode of season two
showed that Claire is now a lot older, and her daughter Brianna is already
twenty years old. They met Roger and it can be seen that Jamie sends Claire
back to her own time through the stones, and after an emotional farewell. And
so the first and last episodes come together and the circle is complete. Jamie
wants to die on the battlefield of Culloden, because he knows that Claire,
together with his child, will continue to live.
Season three continues where season two ended, with both
main characters, each in their own world. Jamie stands alone with the stones
and Claire, who arrives in Boston pregnant and together with Frank. Jamie
fights his way to his death, where fortunately he is saved in time and more
dead than alive. Only Jamie doesn’t want to live without Claire. He is a man
who is hunted, because on the head of ‘red Jamie’ is still a price. As luck
would have it an accident, he meets someone from his past who helps him
survive.
In Boston in the 1940s, Claire gave birth the her and
Jamie’s child: Brianna. As good as she can, she tries to build a life with
Frank and Brianna. She makes her way through life and decides to study medicine
in the fifties. But, in the fifties, it wasn’t easy for a woman to study and
build a career.
Yet she manages to make a name for herself in the hospital
in which she works. When fate strikes her and Brianna, she decides to go back
to Scotland where, as we saw in season two, she tells Brianna all about Jamie
Fraser. Brianna makes a big decision. Once her mother gave up Jamie for
Brianna, now its time to give her mother back to him. A search for Jamie
begins.
The first part of season three consists mainly of the
lives of Jamie and Claire, each in their own time and in their own lives. How
do they survive losing the love of your life, and how do you build a life
without each other, without ever being able to forget each other. “Outlander”
wouldn’t be “Outlander” is it didn’t work out. How, when and where, you really
have to see for yourself.
A part of “Outlander” was recorded in South Africa,
where the cast and crew were allowed to use the set and ships of the series “Black
Sails”. This can be seen in the second part of the season. The season starts
calmly and quietly, with some ripples here and there. But the second half of
the season is really a rollercoaster ride, with an end that demands a lot more.
Fortunately, there will be a lot more.
Season three was again a beautiful season with a good
story. The emotions fly around, especially the moments of loss and the famous
scene in the print shop bring tears and goosebumps. Still, I found a flaw in
the series. In my opinion, there is too much emphasis on the fact that Claire
is a doctor. I’m not someone who has to see everything so often. The focus
could be more on Jamie and Claire.
Season three adds a number of new faces to the series.
For example, César Domboy played the role of the adult Fergus, Young Ian will
eb played by Joh Bell and we meet
Marsali, who will pay a big role in season three and four. All in all, season
three of “Outlander” was beautiful, exciting, loving and has guts.
