Movies & TV Outlander Outlander Showrunner Says Show’s Ending Is “Not Going to Please Everyone” “You want people to be satisfied. You want them to feel like the story’s been told” By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on March 4, 2026 Credit: Starz Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Starz The eighth and final season of Outlander begins on March 6, and in the lead-up to its premiere, showrunner Matthew B. Roberts and executive producer Maril Davis reflected on what the series finale will mean to fans of both the books and the series. “You want people to be satisfied. You want them to feel like the story’s been told,” Roberts said during a press conference hosted by the Television Critics Association that Reactor attended. Roberts then went on, however, to acknowledge that the ending is “not going to please everyone,” that “not all stories have happy endings,” and that how a fan feels about the ending will be “subjective.” Davis also shared that she “cried fat, ugly tears in the last episode” and that while “it did feel very sad because it’s ending,” she, as a fan, “was very satisfied” with it. “It’s going to be subjective,” she said, echoing Roberts’ words, “but I thought it was a really beautiful episode.” And as for how the show’s ending compares to the one author Diana Gabaldon is working on? Both Roberts and Davis were coy, though Davis confirmed that she and at least Jamie Fraser actor Sam Heughan have read the last couple of pages of the yet-to-be-published final book in Gabaldon’s series (Roberts had the opportunity to do so and chose not to). Credit: Starz “We certainly didn’t want to do an ending that [Gabaldon] might do,” Davis said, “but it was also kind of impossible [to do so], since we are ending it a book early.” However, the writing team did keep Gabaldon informed as they worked on the series finale because they wanted her to let them know if what they had come up with made her uncomfortable. “We just had to try to wrap some things up, [and] some things we will not be able to wrap up, just because there’s so much material still to go,” Davis said. We’ll have to wait to see how the show’s final episodes play out. Outlander season eight premieres on Starz on Friday, March 6, 2026, with Starz releasing a new episode each Friday thereafter. [end-mark] The post <i>Outlander</i> Showrunner Says Show’s Ending Is “Not Going to Please Everyone” appeared first on Reactor.