The wild trip of Outlander will finish after the upcoming eighth and remaining season, nevertheless it stays to be seen if Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan might be again on the small display as their iconic characters earlier than the top of the 2025 TV schedule. As a fan of the fantastical time-travel romance interval drama going again to the start, I all the time hold an eye fixed out to see if Outlander might be acknowledged on the awards circuit, and even requested one star for his or her ideas about why the favored drama all the time will get snubbed by the main occasions like Emmys, Golden Globes, and Critics Alternative.
Now, months after Balfe misplaced out on a significant award, she’s been nominated for one more that I feel might be good for her work on this sequence. She’s within the working for Greatest Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Sequence, Restricted Sequence Or Made-For-TV Film on the Critics Alternative Tremendous Awards. The nomination was introduced simply months after she was within the working for Greatest Actress in a Drama Sequence on the most important Critics Alternative Awards. That trophy went to Kathy Bates for Matlock, beating out Discovered‘s Shanola Hampton, Black Doves‘ Keira Knightley, The Diplomat‘s Keri Russell, and Shōgun‘s Anna Sawai in addition to Balfe for Outlander.
Now, I am definitely not saying that Kathy Bates did not deserve the award, and I used to be truly thrilled to see a community TV present getting some recognition, however Sophie Skelton’s feedback about why Outlander would not get awards love have caught with me since I spoke to her again in February. The actress, who performs Bree on Outlander, advised me:
I feel one factor that is lovely about Outlander is that it suits into plenty of genres and plenty of classes, however I feel additionally that may perhaps generally be its downfall, as a result of it perhaps would not match. It is type of one among a sort, so I feel it is troublesome for some folks to peg the place it suits in. As I say, I feel that is truly a advantage of it, and that implies that there’s one thing in it for everybody.
If Outlander strays an excessive amount of into style for any wins on the whole drama classes, then what higher occasion for Caitriona Balfe to take dwelling a trophy than a class from the CCA that actually has to present the award to a number one girl from a Science Fiction/Fantasy Sequence? It is proper there within the class title, in spite of everything! No authorized procedurals for the win on this one.
Balfe is admittedly up in opposition to some stiff competitors for Greatest Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Sequence for the Critics Alternative Tremendous Awards. Additionally within the working are Adria Arjona for Andor, Kathryn Hahn for Agatha All Alongside, Britt Decrease for Severance, Cristin Milioti for Black Mirror: USS Callister: Into Infinity, and Michelle Yeoh for Star Trek: Part 31, and all are worthy choices. Nonetheless, I feel it bodes properly for the Outlander star that she’s a minimum of up in opposition to actresses who’re additionally from style sequence, and every of them put in stable work on their varied tasks.
However with just one season of Outlander left and no signal that Caitriona Balfe might be in both season of the recently-renewed Blood of My Blood prequel, time is working out for the main girl and her present to get the awards consideration I feel they deserve. Even when she would not win on the Tremendous Awards, I’ll a minimum of get pleasure from that she received a nomination as I proceed to attempt to recover from how exhausting she was snubbed for her standout (albeit heartbreaking) work in Season 5 .
The winners of the Critics Alternative Tremendous Awards might be introduced on Thursday, August 7, which simply so occurs to be precisely in the future earlier than Outlander: Blood of My Blood premieres on Starz and two days earlier than the anniversary of Outlander‘s first-ever episode.