1.06
One of the best episode i've seen on TV this year. EMMY SUBMISSION PLEASE !
The meat of the episode all takes place in the same room. Outlander takes us into the dark depths of Randall’s ****ed up mind. He’s a monster who believes he’s a god. The show again succeeds in putting us right in the shoes of our protagonist; I felt trapped there with Claire, lured in by Randall’s eerily calm tone as he relays his horrifying tale.
This of course isn’t the first time television has taken us deep into the psyche of a monster: Dexter gave us eight seasons of it, Game of Thrones took us behind the curtain of young psychopath Joffrey Baratheon’s most twisted atrocities, over the course of Breaking Bad, we watched Walter White slip further and further into his violent megalomania.
But there’s something striking about the way Outlander’s writers (and Menzies’s nuanced performance) build the tension of this character exposé. It’s not necessarily the images of Randall brutalizing Jamie that terrifies but the way Randall recalls it: relaxed, almost fondly, so that when he sharply turns on Claire, we’re as taken off guard as she is. (QUEEN Caitriona !)
It again highlights Outlander’s success at relying on character work and dialogue over action and gore to excite.
Don’t get me wrong: It’s an undeniably bloody and hard-to-watch episode (
) but the writers never sacrifice the writing for the sake of violent spectacle.
, there's only a crappy 480p floating around.
Good series.
i always tend to forget that it's a Rted R show since it's not overflowing with blood and sex.
