The Season 7 finale of Outlander is sort of right here within the 2025 TV schedule, and the penultimate episode raised the stakes nearly as excessive as they’ve ever been for Claire and Jamie. Claire was shot within the stomach, and sadly, the very best surgeon for the job of saving her life is the ailing Claire herself. Jamie was a mix of livid, devastated, and panicked, with a fairly masterful efficiency by Sam Heughan. That stated, what ought to have been a tense cliffhanger simply made me sigh forward of the finale, as a result of I am maxed out on near-death experiences.
Okay, technically Outlander hasn’t but assured that Claire will survive and make her gunshot wound a close to-death fairly than sure dying state of affairs, however wanting Caitriona Balfe taking part in a ghost or showing completely by way of flashbacks in Season 8, we are able to safely say that her character is not going to perish within the Season 7 finale. (Plus, each Heughan and Balfe are within the video concerning the closing day of filming.) And that simply makes me want that the present would lean tougher into cliffhangers that truly give explanation for concern.
Claire being shot might need confused me out extra if Outlander hadn’t beforehand tried to promote suspense about Jamie’s “dying” when his ship went down throughout the passage from Scotland to the longer term United States. That wasn’t way back, in spite of everything, and there was so little doubt that he would come again that the one tear-jerking second of that episode for me was the dying of the elder Ian Murray.
If something, Jamie’s “dying” was attention-grabbing for placing relationships to the take a look at as soon as he got here again and the pure chaos of William studying the establish of his actual father. I simply could not fairly associate with Claire’s grief the way in which I did in earlier Outlander losses, resembling her miscarriage again in Season 2, as a result of I did not imagine it.
In fact, Claire believing that Jamie was useless led to some standout performances from Caitriona Balfe in addition to David Berry, simply as Claire’s state of affairs as of the top of the penultimate episode had Sam Heughan greater than rising to the event of displaying Jamie’s devastation and his fury as he stop his command to remain by the facet of his (so far as he is aware of) dying spouse.
None of that is to say that it wasn’t a giant method to finish the final episode earlier than the Season 7 finale, and I am undoubtedly curious to see how Outlander can wrap something up by the point the ultimate credit roll. If there are any extra incidents that appear to result in the deaths of main characters, although, I simply hope that these characters aren’t Jamie, Claire, or Younger Ian. (I am not too anxious about Ian both.)
I used to be nervous for Lord John’s life just a few episodes in the past, since he is an necessary however not essentially important character to make it to the ultimate season. Even William’s finish may have been nigh after he was taken captive by Hessians, and I might be maintaining a tally of Denzell Hunter within the upcoming finale if not for the truth that he may be the one one who can observe Claire’s directions capably sufficient to save lots of her. Come on, Outlander, and save the scary near-deaths for characters who would possibly truly die!
Will I be consuming my phrases by the top of the Season 7 finale? That is totally potential, and Outlander has actually delivered tragedies which might be a lot tougher to look at than a number of the deaths. No matter occurs to finish the season, no less than the wait is not an excessive amount of longer. The ultimate episode of Outlander‘s seventh (and second-to-last) season will air on Friday, January 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Starz.