Sassenachs the world over have recognized that Outlander Season 8 will deliver in regards to the sequence finale for fairly a while now. Whereas Season 7 just lately ended its run on the 2025 TV schedule, the upcoming prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood will air lengthy earlier than we get to see how Claire and Jamie’s love story wraps up. Whilst we wait, nevertheless, I need to admit I’m already very anxious in regards to the remaining season, merely due to what the showrunner stated about it not that way back.
What Outlander’s Showrunner Stated About Season 8 And Why It Has Me Nervous
Simply so those that haven’t been maintaining with any and all potential Outlander updates are within the know, Season 8 (a.okay.a. the remaining episodes) completed filming in late September 2024. This implies we’ve heard lots about issues like how Sam Heughan admitted he expects to miss the “camaraderie” on set, Caitríona Balfe saying in summer time 2023 that they each obtained choked up after they realized how shut the top was, and the “excellent” however emotional remaining learn via that the forged and crew had.
Each Outlander fan is each dreading and looking out ahead to the ending of among the finest historic romantic dramas ever created for the small display screen, however now I’ve further purpose to fret, as showrunner Matthew B. Roberts stated this to TV Insider when requested in regards to the remaining season:
I believe these characters and these tales imply one thing to folks, and we have been very cautious in crafting a season that brings these feels to the [surface]. And we needed to be sure that that trip that you just absorb Season 8 provides you all the normal feels of Outlander.
Sighhhhhhh. OK, all people maintain on whereas I accumulate myself.
Alright. Right here we go…
Clearly, Roberts wasn’t ready to actually give something strong away, which makes complete sense, and his phrases may and doubtless do imply that followers will come away with all kinds of feelings throughout and after watching the final season. That is, in spite of everything, a sequence that has given us a few of the sexiest romantic moments ever seen on tv, together with huge quantities of drama, action-filled battle scenes and, allow us to not neglect, all that 1700s-era time journey!
Nevertheless, once I initially learn his phrases, just one factor got here to thoughts once I absorbed the phrase “conventional feels of Outlander.” And, sadly, that factor is trauma.
Look, I’m not so naive as to imagine that the final season of this sequence will see Claire, Jamie, Bree, Roger, and all of the others we’ve come to know, love and even detest gazing at rainbows as attractive butterflies flit round them in meadows full of flowers whereas all of them play with lovable kittens. I imply, the American Revolution remains to be occurring, for fuck’s sake! I’m totally conscious that each character will face quite a few challenges. I simply don’t need these troubles to be too, properly, troubling.
I nonetheless keep in mind once I came across the final two episodes of the romantic epic’s first season. I’ve nonetheless, by no means in my life, seen something so harrowing on TV, and whereas Season 1, Episode 16 is certainly one of many finest Outlander episodes ever, I used to be so shaken by what I’d seen that I used to be awake till the wee hours of the morning afterwards; watching cartoons to try to clear my head and make sense of all of it.
Principally, what I’m saying is that I WILL NOT BE OK if something in Season 8 comes anyplace shut to what occurred there, and if we are able to get a minimum of a few kittens and rainbows within the final ever season of our favourite present we’ll all be higher for it!