Outlander (2014 TV Series)
- rating:
- TV-MA
- genre:
- Drama , Fantasy , Romance
- cast:
- Graham McTavish , Caitriona Balfe , Sam Heughan , Tobias Menzies , Duncan Lacroix , Grant O'Rourke , Stephen Walters , Simon Callow , Steven Cree , Laura Donnelly , Bill Paterson , Gary Lewis , Lotte Verbeek , Douglas Henshall , David Berry , John Bell , César Domboy , Lauren Lyle
- production company:
- Sony Pictures Television , Tall Ship Productions , Left Bank Pictures , Story Mining and Supply Company
- assistant director:
- Nick Heckstall-Smith , David Gilchrist , Chris Stoaling , Patrick Conroy , Joanna Matthews , Jude Campbell
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- producer:
- David Brown , Guy Tannahill
- number of seasons:
- 6
- creator:
- Ronald D. Moore
- showrunner:
- Ronald D. Moore , Matthew B. Roberts
- distributor:
- Sony Pictures Television
- main characters:
- Claire Dearing , Claire Fraser , Frank Randall , Dougal MacKenzie , Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser , Lord John Grey , Ian Fraser Murray , Marsali MacKimmie Fraser , Claudel "Fergus" Fraser
- sfx supervisor:
- Danny Hargreaves , Doug Hardy
- characters by:
- Diana Gabaldon
- premiere date:
- August 9 2014
- number of episodes:
- 87
- cinematographer:
- Alasdair Walker , Neville Kidd , Stijn Van der Veken
Synopsis
Based on Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling book series and Executive Produced by Ronald D. Moore, Outlander spans the genres of romance, science fiction, history and adventure as it follows Claire Randall, a married World War II combat nurse who mistakenly falls back in time to 1743. Forced by circumstance to marry Jamie Fraser, an outlawed Highlander, she finds herself falling in love and torn by her loyalties to two men in vastly different times. Claire must reconcile her modern mindset with this 18th Century world amidst threats from ruthless Redcoats, volatile clan politics and a brutal witch trial – and ultimately discovers that there is a fate worse than death as she must struggle to save Jamie’s heart, as well as his soul.
The sixth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie’s fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. Establishing a home in the New World is by no means an easy task, particularly in the wild backcountry of North Carolina – and perhaps most significantly – during a period of dramatic political upheaval. The Frasers strive to maintain peace and flourish within a society, which – as Claire knows all too well – is unwittingly marching towards Revolution. Against this backdrop, which heralds the birth of the new American nation, Claire and Jamie have built a home together at Fraser’s Ridge. They must now defend this home – established on land granted to them by the Crown – not only from external forces, but also from the increasing strife and conflict in the community within their care. For the Frasers and their immediate family, then, “home” is more than simply a site in which they live, it is the place where they are laying the foundations for the rest of their lives. If Season 4 asked, “What is home?” and Season 5 asked, “What are you willing to do to protect your home?” then Season 6 explores what happens when there is disharmony and division among the inhabitants of the home you’ve created: when you become an outsider, or an ‘outlander,’ so to speak, marginalized and rejected in your own home.