(I would just like to give a quick PSA and say that this review is biased because I love this show and have read a lot of the books that the television series is based on. Sorry… not sorry.)
I have never watched a show where it was so clear that two people loved each other so much and so fiercely that I knew they would always be together.
On this show, you know that despite any fight, argument, disagreement, Jamie and Claire would find their back to each other, stronger than ever.
The two main characters share a love that isn’t broken by a stupid, drawn-out love triangle or petty drama or the writers being annoying and deciding that two people who are perfect together should keep breaking up to make things “exciting”. Garbage.
Had to get all of that out there, whoops.
Anyway…
It starts out in 1945, where Claire Randall is happily married and just finished her service as a combat nurse in WW2. Her husband, Jack Randall, was also involved in the war, causing the couple to see very little of each other.
They go to Scotland in the hopes that they will be able to reconnect in their marriage, but instead, something bizarre happens.
Clarie, after her and her husband observe a weird ritual of women dancing half-naked in an area of surrounding stones, decides to go out there the next morning in search of herbs.
Instead, after touching the middle stone, she gets transported back to 1743, and nearly dies her first day there.
I don’t want to give too much away because you have to watch, but there’s a clan of proud, arrogant Scotsmen, a rebellion trying to be raised, and the handsome, charismatic Jamie that has horrible whiplash scars marring his back.
There’s adventure, mystery, Claire trying to find herself in a world that doesn’t see women as much more than property and a pretty thing to touch, and makes it known that she is smart, capable, and to be taken seriously.
She also falls in love, and it changes everything for her, changes who she is and what she wants and pushes her into impossible choices that shake the fabric of history.
Here are my points:
Claire- strong, kind, hard-edged, stubborn and fiercely loyal, she is an incredible character and worth watching just for her alone.
Jamie- an actual dreamboat. Caring, respectable, wild, cunning, arrogant, a man who just wants his life back and finding out that he will follow Claire to the ends of the earth if he has to.
Everyone else- they’re all great, actually, Captain Jack Randall, with the face of Claire’s husband but a terrible person is THE WORST.
Watch watch watch because Claire and Jamie are the epitome of an epic love story that threatens to break your heart but also put back together again in one fell swoop.
The show is on Stars, and if you don’t have it, like I don’t, well… (use google, use google, use google).
Let me know what you want me to do next or I’ll just do whatever I want… hee.
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