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Outlander – Season 5, Episode 3 Free Will

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The growing Regulator threat forces Jamie, Claire and Roger to embark on a mission to raise a militia.
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Outlander — Season 5, Episode 3

Outlander — Season 5, Episode 3

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"Free Will" is a strange but fully engrossing episode of Outlander that borrows elements of the horror genre to explore one woman's trauma.

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya AV Club 03/02/2020
B+
It's a rather psychologically driven episode of Outlander. There's little action, but it still crafts suspense and tension in visceral ways. Go to Full Review
Amber Dowling IndieWire 03/02/2020
A-
What no one was bargaining for, however, was the strong elements of horror that punctuated the episode. Go to Full Review
Andrea Reiher Variety 03/02/2020
It may have taken the show out of the action a bit, but it certainly helped paint a picture of how awful frontier life can be. Go to Full Review
Jennifer Still Decider 04/13/2020
This was one of the show's more pensive episodes, one which seemed preoccupied with asking the bigger, often unanswerable questions. Go to Full Review
Molly Catherine Turner Culturess 03/09/2020
It seems like the episode mostly serves as a reminder that the 1700s aren't all the glamour they're cracked up to be and that Claire, a woman of multiple decades, is keeping this in mind. Go to Full Review
Carly Lane Syfy Wire 03/02/2020
When Jamie and Claire eventually reach the Beardsley home, well ... I'm just going to come out and say it: it feels like the setting of a horror movie. Go to Full Review
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Episode Info

Synopsis The growing Regulator threat forces Jamie, Claire and Roger to embark on a mission to raise a militia.
Director
Jamie Payne
Creator
Ronald D. Moore
Executive Producer
Ronald D. Moore
Network
STARZ
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date
Mar 1, 2020
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