Once again we’re tossed by the seas of time back to the 1700s for another season of Outlander! Adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling series of novels by showrunner Ronald D. Moore (For All Mankind, Battlestar Galactica), the series follows the adventures of Claire Randall (Caitríona Balfe), a World War II-era nurse who finds herself flung back in time to the Scottish Highlands of the 18th century.
There she finds romance with clansman Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and uses her medical skills and knowledge of the future to help him and his fellow Jacobite rebels. There’s more to it than that, of course, but you better get up to speed ASAP, because Outlander season seven has arrived in Australia, now streaming on BINGE and available to rent from Apple.
Of course, this is only the first part of season seven, with the next eight episodes arriving some time in 2024. And we’re not in the Highlands anymore. Jamie, Claire and the rest of the Fraser clan are now in what will eventually be the United States, carving out new lives in Fraser’s Ridge, North Carolina, while resentment against the British builds and the American Revolution draws ever closer. Following on from the events of season six, Jamie and Claire want nothing more than time to heal, emotionally and physically. But Jamie’s oath to the Crown back in season three might force him to join the Redcoats to fight a war that Claire, at least, already knows the outcome of.
But worse, season seven opens with Claire facing execution for the murder of the pregnant Malva Christie (Jessica Reynolds), with Jamie and Young Ian (John Bell) desperate to save her from the hangman’s noose.
With its mix of sweeping romance, painstaking historical detail, and flashes of brutal violence, Outlander has earned legions of loyal fans who’ve been waiting patiently for the further exploits of Jamie and Claire. And now the wait is over!
