OUTLANDER, 3.11 – ‘Uncharted’
Remember how last week I referred to Marsali’s enforced shipboard conference with Claire in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander novel Voyager? It had seemed like a…
OUTLANDER, 3.9 & 3.10 – ‘The Doldrums’ & ‘Heaven and Earth’
“The Doldrums” and “Heaven and Earth” take the third season of Outlander off in a new direction. We see Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire…
OUTLANDER, 3.8 – ‘First Wife’
By taking young Ian (John Bell) back to Lallybroch, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire (Caitriona Balfe) may have assumed their troubles were over for…
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB (1971)
An archaeological expedition brings back to London the coffin of an Egyptian queen known for her magical powers, only for her spirit to return in the form of a young girl…
OUTLANDER, 3.7 – ‘Crème de Menthe’
Outlander is often a curious beast. After six episodes of well-crafted, character-driven drama, full of resonance and emotion, its makers suddenly realise they’ve got…
SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)
When libertine Paul Carlson disappears one night, his sober brother Simon and girlfriend trace him to Transylvania, discovering a village terrified by the resurrected vampire Count Dracula…
OUTLANDER, 3.6 – ‘A. Malcolm’
After a short break, Outlander returns and finally relieves the pressure from the teasing climax of “Freedom and Whisky”, in which Jamie Fraser (Sam…
DEMONS OF THE MIND (1972)
A physician discovers that two children are being kept imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates and discovers a web of sex, incest, and satanic possession.
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.
OUTLANDER, 3.5 – ‘Freedom & Whisky’
With “Freedom and Whisky”, the fifth episode of this season of Outlander, the narrative viewpoint shifts back to Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and her daughter…
OUTLANDER, 3.4 – ‘Of Lost Things’
“Of Lost Things” initially returns us to 1968 and the aftermath of Roger Wakefield’s discovery in Outlander season 2’s finale, “Dragonfly in Amber”, that Jamie…
OUTLANDER, 3.3 – ‘All Debts Paid’
When we return to Boston in 1956 it’s clear, from the title alone, “All Debts Paid”, that this episode of Outlander is going to…