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Outlander – Season 3, Episode 8 First Wife

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Outlander – Season 3, Episode 8

First Wife

Aired Nov 5, 2017

Drama

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Claire returns to Lallybroch with Jamie, where she does not receive quite the reception she was expecting; the choices Jamie made during their time apart comes back to haunt them.

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Ronald D. Moore

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Caitriona Balfe

Claire Randall

Sam Heughan

Jamie Fraser

Tobias Menzies

Frank Randall

Gary Lewis

Colum MacKenzie

Graham McTavish

Dougal MacKenzie

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Anne Cohen

Refinery29

11/06/2017

I predicted that this was bound to bite him in the ass, but I was wrong. In fact, it's shot him in the arm.

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Amy Wilkinson

Entertainment Weekly

11/06/2017

A-

Considering Voyager comes in at a doorstop-worthy 1,059 pages, a considerable number of plot points often have to be crammed into a single episode. Such was the case with tonight's "First Wife," which boasts a reunion, a shooting, and a kidnapping.

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Genevieve Valentine

New York Times

11/06/2017

Outlander has its struggles, but this week's episode pulls hard enough that it's impossible to ignore: The show is developing a Jamie problem.

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Carly Lane

Syfy Wire

08/01/2018

The rollout of information that both we and Claire have been missing this whole time...

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Roxane Gay

Glamour

03/08/2018

Jenny is either aggressive or passive aggressive to her sister-in-law for most of the episode, but she's also pretty much the best part of it. Overall, it works.

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Brooke Corso

PopWrapped

11/13/2017

Outlander, to its underappreciated credit, never takes the easy road, but instead insists that its audience look closer into how its characters are portrayed and how they respond to such perceptions.

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Synopsis

Claire returns to Lallybroch with Jamie, where she does not receive quite the reception she was expecting; the choices Jamie made during their time apart comes back to haunt them.

Creator: Ronald D. Moore
Executive Producer: Ronald D. Moore
Network: STARZ
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 5, 2017

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