Outlander: Blood of My Blood Stars Tease Shocking Twists in Season 1's Final Episodes

We are one week away from the Outlander: Blood of My Blood finale... except, actually, we are not. The show is taking a skip week, so the last episode is a couple of weeks out. Classic. The upside: season 2 is already a go, so whatever season 1 breaks, there is more story coming to fix it (or make it worse).

Where everyone stands heading into the finale

• Ellen and Brian: They are not legally married, they are handfast. Think of it as an engagement with rules: they have a year and a day from that moment to make it official. Until then, Ellen is still considered unmarried by everyone around her. She also cannot exactly brag about her connection to a Fraser, which is very much not OK in her world. Her family still does not know, and even her brothers are in the dark. Translation: obstacles everywhere.
• Brian on his own: Jamie Roy jokes that Brian will always be the illegitimate kid, and that part does not change. What does change is his spine. By episode 6 we have seen him stand up for himself, and the finale pushes him to decide whether he stays or leaves for Ellen.
• Julia and Henry: Julia ends season 1 in a hopeful place. It looks like things could finally be going the right way after a lot of hard work and a lot of pain. Whether that means a reunion with Henry, or simply that she and her child are safe, we will have to wait for the episode to say it out loud. Either way, it is sounding rosy.
• The MacKenzie clan: Do not expect a tidy bow. They end the season in a serious state of crisis, with the Jacobite rising looming. Season 2 digs straight into that. War is coming, and with it all the messy social fallout this show loves to stir.

The finale vibe (on purpose)

Showrunner Matthew B Roberts is aiming for mutual panic between fans and characters. His words, not mine:

"The mood I wanted to strike – for the fans was 'Oh my god, what’s going to happen next' and for the characters, I want 'Oh my god, what’s going to happen next'."

So yes, prepare for a cliffhanger. Or several.

Season 2 tease (it sounds big)

Conor MacNeill, who plays Ned Gowan, says the family MacKenzie hits a crisis by the end of season 1 and the rebellion is on the horizon. That continues straight into season 2. They are filming now, the cast is ripping through scripts the second they hit their inboxes, and he promises plenty of romance in the middle of all the chaos. Inside baseball detail I enjoy: even the cast is playing the 'what happens next?' game between table reads.

So... when do we actually see the finale?

After the skip week. The show has been rolling out weekly on MGM+ in the UK since its UK premiere on Saturday 9th August, and the finale lands a couple of weeks from now. Until then: time travel, tears, trauma, and a few characters making choices they cannot walk back.