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Outlander · Season 2 · Starz

Outlander Season 2

Outlander Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 8.4/10. 13 episodes on Starz from 9 April 2016.

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BollyMeter8.4/10A 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from 234 critics and a Metacritic of 85 register the Paris-set second series as a creative peer of the debut, with the A.V. Club grading it a perfect A.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 2 moved the action to Versailles as Claire and Jamie worked to prevent the Jacobite rising at the French court, then returned to Scotland for Culloden. The change of setting risked the show's Highlands identity, but the gambit paid off. The A.V. Club's Marah Eakin graded it a perfect A and called it downright immersive. The Metacritic score of 85 from 11 critics marked the series' critical peak. The Culloden sequence in the closing episodes proved the production's ability to handle historical catastrophe at scale, and the time-jump structure of the finale demonstrated the show's willingness to break from the episodic comfort zone.

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Season Over Season

The Paris relocation initially tests the show's identity but the return to Scotland for Culloden delivers the season's most powerful material.