Outlander - Ronald D. Moore - ☕☕☕☕

Hello everybody! 

Today’s review is about Outlander! I don’t know if I should recommend it or not, it depends on you, however I love it and I can’t wait until the third season. 

It’s a series full of twists so I will try not to spoil anything. 

Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) is a Second World War nurse, because of the war she was separated from her husband Frank (Tobias Menzies) for a long time, so, at the end of the war, she decides to go with Frank in the Scottish Highlands to regain the relationship that there was once. During their stay in the highlands, one night they secretly assist to an ancient Celtic ceremony. The next day Claire, interested by a plant, decides to return in the ceremony’s place. Then, while she’s in the middle of a circle of stones, she hears a strange noise coming from a stone and, when she touch it, she finds herself in 1743. 

This, more or less, is the beginning of the series (/end of your not-obsessed-by-Scotland life). Claire finds herself in an era in which a short dress can be misunderstood and in the middle of the Scottish independence battles from England, while she’s trying to get back in her era to her only love Frank, maybe not so only and maybe not so love in front of a brave young Scot: Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan).

 How to blame her... 

Let’s start saying that if something made you believe that this is a fantasy series you are totally wrong. On TV Show Time it’s between the series recommended if you want something similar to Game of Thrones, but Outlander is nothing like that, I can tell you this because I started to watch it searching something similar to Game of Thrones, so trust me. Maybe the time travel can suggest that this is kind of a fictional series but it’s not, the time travel is more like a strange mistery of the celtic tradition and the plot is so full of twists that you almost forget it. 

As you can tell, Outlander is an historical series and it’s very very realistic, it has many strong scenes (sex, tortures, amputations exc.) so of course it’s not for a young audience, furthermore it has a slow narration, given by Claire, and it’s rich of details, thoughts, feelings etc, which make the series wonderful but also very slow, so for some of you, it could be boring.

Now I would really like to dedicate a few words to the “bad guy” of this series: Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies). I can’t tell very much about him because of the spoilers, but I will say that he’s one of the most complicated characters I’ve ever seen. He’s so bad, he’s very very bad, he’s the devil on earth (omg I can’t think about it now), the thing is that you can’t understand if he’s so bad for a reason (like all the classic bullies) or if he’s evil just because he’s evil. In the first season he’s just the nightmare, in the second you could believe him to have a soul, a dark one, but at least a soul and now I guess we’ll have to discover the rest in the next season. 

In short Outlander is a very well made series, I highly recommend it, especially if you like history. It also has a beautiful and complicated love story so if you’re into it, you’re welcome to the Outlander family. One little flaw: you could be annoyed by violent scenes, they’re not so strong and they’re not so many, but they could annoy you.

 Last but not less important: the soundtrack! The opening is just amazing and I really appreciated the change in the opening of the second season, I can't say how it changes because it will be a huge spoiler but I can say that it's just amazing. If some of you have seen the second season please comment and tell me how much is beautiful the opening!

 Here’s the trailer of the first season. Enjoy!

  

 Allen 

  

 P.S. the series is taken from the book “Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon, I haven’t read it, but if some of you have please comment and let me know what do you think about it!