Beautiful america - 401
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Analysis on the first episode of season 4. How the series makes us pass Scotland to America. How do we prepare for the arrival of Bree and Roger. What will be the future of the Fraser. Focus on this episode rich in twists and turns.
The Parisian sacrifice
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Between conspiracies and manipulation in a foreign country, far from everything that had brought them together, Claire and Jamie must still and always sacrifice themselves in the name of past history to come. The first part of the second season, like a painful but necessary joint before Culloden's curse.
Season 4
Wilmington - 408
There were many different women in this episode, some accepting their assigned roles, some trying to expand their roles, but all without a real choice of their own decisions and lives ... Women at that time were subject to men And their roles were dictated by a patriarchal company.
Dragonfly in amber - 213
By Pas Cale
, the eponymous title of volume 2 of the saga, episode 13 of season 2 is rich and complex; after many questions about the angle of attack, I chose to approach it with the theme of wandering. Decryption.
Season 6
Between two fires - 502
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
In two intertwined parts, one in Fraser Ridge where Claire tries to overcome the medical ignorance of the time, and in Wilmington, where Jamie is caught between the British army and the anger of the regulators, this second episode installs the political context in which the season will unfold.
The battle joined - 301
By Pas Cale
Now one without the other, Claire and Jamie will have to fight their respective fights in deep and painful loneliness. But what fights are these? Decryption…
The first wife - 308
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
It is not incidentally that Clear crosses stones of Craigh Na Dunn this time. It is to join the man of his life. To find this unequaled love lack of which threw a constant voile over last 20 years. Then, why is it so difficult? Why love seems not to be enough?
The cross of fire - 501
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
The first episode of a season is like the cover of a book, which catches the eye, makes you want to grab it, leaf through it, and then delve into it.
Season 1
Allegiance - 602
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Second episode of the sixth season, Allegiance offers in small touches the intimate fights of each. Jamie as an Indian agent, Claire facing Christie's misogyny, Marsali suffering from loneliness and Fergus lost in alcohol...
Season 2
Season 5
Echoes - 601
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
First episode of the season, "Echoes" introduces the new characters, including Tom Christie, former Jacobite imprisoned in Ardsmuir at the same time as Jamie.
All is not well at the ridge where Claire is trying to recover from her trauma.
The Bakra and Eye of the storm - 312 & 313
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Although the second part of Outlander's third season is particularly eventful, the two episodes closing this season are filled with an intensity rarely matched in the saga and set the pace even higher. Jamaica ... like a dynamic interlude that helps us move from Scotland to America without too much pain.
Perpetual adoration - 505
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Where we learn that Claire knows more than God about the passage of time.
Just before Culloden - 212 & 213
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Focus on the last two episodes of season 2: The hail Mary and Dragonfly in amber.
All this energy, this will, all this time devoted to saving the Scottish clans. All that hope of being able to put an end to the Culloden massacre… All of the sacrifices made. In vain.
From Randall to Fraser. Claire's transformation in 7 episodes
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
There are lives that flow harmoniously, smoothly, without trauma, without ever having to question its inner nature and its place in a complex society. There are existences without danger, without abysses, without confrontations. And then there are the others.
Temperance - 603
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
While Tom Christie finally agrees to have his hand operated, while refusing to do so under ether, the community of Fraser's ridge attacks little Henri-Christian, forcing Roger and Jamie to show authority. Fergus sinks ever deeper into despair.
The ballad of Roger Mac - 507
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
When, assisted by Jamie Fraser's colonial militia, British troops confront the Regulators at the famous Battle of Alamance, everyone loses.
The wending - 107
By Pas Cale
Episode 7 of Season 1 is, with the reunion (A. Malcolm, 3-06), the episode that helps fulfill the love that unites our two heroes, Claire Beauchamp and James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. Small non-exhaustive overview of the themes.
Free Will - 503
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Jamie and Claire branch off from their original destination to go to the Beardsleys' home to claim the twins' bondage contracts. They did not expect this immersion in hell.
Season 3
The blood of my blood - 406
By Beth Wilson
John, Jamie, Claire, and even William yearn for something missing in their lives, or regret choices and struggle to be accepted.
Providence and A man of valor - 412 & 413
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
The two episodes, "providence" and "a man of valor" (which I cannot separate as they are linked together) have the particularity of making 4 independent arcs intersect which will eventually come together. Parallel stories that feature a central character and essential support.
Do no arm - 402
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
Although in any case, this episode deserves a deep analysis, I really want, for this focus, to focus on the theme of slavery, and, in particular, on the way that everyone has to use it , to adapt to it, or to revolt.
All debts paid - 303
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud, very freely inspired by a text written by C.M. Houghton
An episode straddling two eras in which Claire and Jamie try to survive the pain of their separation. Jamie, a prisoner in Ardsmuir meets Lord John Grey, who will become his best friend. Claire becomes a doctor and focuses her life on her work so as not to fall apart within a couple that has no meaning for her.
Journey-cake - 511
By Beth Wesson
No, no, no, no, NO!!!!! I kept mumbling to myself from the very first scene where Bree and Roger realize Jemmy is a traveler. The looks of realization and its import were on everyone’s faces and the significance for each of them weighed heavily on my heart. “Don’t go”, I mumbled, “please don’t go. ‘
The Gathering - 104
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
This fourth episode of the first season is a very important articulation between Claire's installation in her new life, her desire to return to her time to find Frank there, and everything that is being put in place, however, so that she finds its place among the inhabitants of Leoch.
The Devil's mark - 111
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
An hour-long episode developed in two very distinct parts - The trial of the witches then the escape of Claire is Jamie -, the mark of the Devil delimits a very precise border in the saga. The one where Claire reveals who she really is.
A life well lost - 701
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
While Claire is exfiltrated from prison to take care of the governor's wife, Jamie and Ian go to Wilmington to rescue her. There he finds Thomas Christie who is determined to save the one who has been unjustly condemned.
Roger, about to be ordained a pastor, meets Wendigo Donner. he argues with Bree about whether to help her or not.
Season 7
The happiest place on earth - 702
By Valérie Gay-Corajoud
De retour à Fraser's Ridge, les Frasers se remettent de leurs émotions et accueillent Mandy, le bébé de Bree et Roger. Hélas, Claire détecte un problème cardiaque nécessitant une opération très risquée. Pour cela, les McKenzie vont devoir traverser les pierres. En cherchant des gemmes à Wilmington, Bree rencontre son frère William et Jamie a une discussion avec lord John.