Movies & TV Outlander: Blood of My Blood The Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 Premiere Separates Fact from Fiction Trippy mashup hallucinations and sweet cameos make for a swell “Remembrance Day” in the Outlander prequel. By Natalie Zutter | Published on September 21, 2026 Image: Starz Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Starz Starz’s Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood picks up right where the season one finale left off, with our two couples (and the eventual parents of Jamie and Claire) stranded by time and duty. The romantic drama leans more heavily on the drama in the second season premiere, smashing the metaphorical bridges between Brian and Ellen, and Henry and Julia—dragging the respective women back to where they started, and sending the men into new trials. That said, there’s still time for one desperate clinch before departing to prepare for war. Spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood “Remembrance Day” Fact and fiction are just as intimately intertwined for both couples, who have to maintain cover stories about not being together to ensure their own survival, while simultaneously not letting these stories steal away the truths only they know. Jamie and Claire had their own arcs built on similar survival mechanisms of self-deception, but it’s much more embedded into the prequel series’ DNA. As we remember from the finale, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) is called back by the fiery crosses to fight in the Jacobite uprising, leaving Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) no choice but to return home with her tail between her legs, hiding the secret of their union. As for the couple whose fate was more uncertain, we get our answer: Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) tries to send him, Julia Beauchamp (Hermione Corfield), and their infant son William through the stones, only for nothing to happen. At least, not until Arch Bug descends upon them with a knife… Stone-Crossed Lovers Image: Starz The face acting from Corfield when Julia looks back to see that Henry has passed through the stones—! Gutting, and in the first five minutes. And then she has to instantly hide her grief and pretend that “the Grant bladier” was kidnapping her, and oh how grateful she is to be towed back to Castle Leathers like an escaped cow. The only relief is that she has enough allies within the household by now to catch her, as she’s on the verge of emotional collapse. For all she knows, she will never see Henry again; and now she has to fend off Lord Lovat’s advances by simpering and appealing to his ego about how he should lead his men into battle. I’m a sucker for every time someone in the Outlander verse gets to reveal that they’re a time traveler, so Julia letting Davina in on the secret was so satisfying. Even if Davina is still skeptical enough to believe it’s more faeries or witchcraft, someone knowing the truth may make it that much easier for her to devise another escape once the opportunity presents itself. Remembrance Day Image: Starz But poor Henry! He’s returned to Inverness in 1924 (they disappeared in 1923), but so feverish from his stab wound that he gets sent to an asylum. There, the doctor is far too eager to try out this newfangled electroconvulsive therapy on the poor man; instead of clarifying his muddled memories, it distorts everything across the two timelines. The resulting mashup hallucinations are the premiere’s other high point: stunningly shot, disturbingly layered, each one further blurring Henry’s sense of logic or order. It really seems as if the ECT will have scrambled his sense of reality to the point where I don’t know what it would take to anchor him back in the present or remind him how to return to the past. In one of the warped memories, he tells Julia, “I see you, and I hear Claire laughing, and that’s what brings me back home.” But how tragic for Henry to be in the same time as little Claire, but unable to remember the significance of her birthday nor his own surname. He thinks he’s Henry Grant, so of course no one will know to track down Uncle Lamb, at least not immediately. Love Versus Loyalty Image: Starz Honestly, the Brian/Ellen conflict was less compelling for me in comparison to Julia/Henry. I think because the leadup in the premiere is slower, as both clans Fraser and MacKenzie regroup after the disastrous wedding with the Grants, including Malcolm’s unfortunate death (by Brian’s hand, though so far only Ellen knows) and the Jacobite rebellion. Both Ellen and Brian try to do the right thing for familial duty by coming home and aligning themselves with siblings or parents, only to get (in her case) slapped by Collum and (in his case) sneered at by Lord Lovat. Is it any surprise that neither is all that interested in continuing to support their clans’ respective interests? Crossing Over Image: Starz Who else cheered at the appearance of Reverend Wakefield? He and Mrs. Graham were integral to sending Claire back through the stones in the Outlander pilot… plus providing Frank with historical research into both Black Jack Randall and one James Fraser… plus being Roger MacKenzie’s adoptive father and influencing him and Brianna Randall to go into the past. And now we find out that before all that, they were potentially helping reunite Henry and Julia! Of course, it’s only the premiere, so the Reverend is a bit taken aback by Henry’s mad ramblings about the past and seems to believe the only comfort he can offer is prayer. But there’s Mrs. Graham, who we know to be part of the women who dance at the sun-feast at Craigh na Dun. So the premiere ends on a little bit of hope, as she offers Henry the lifeline he needs—someone who believes him. Scattered Gemstones Image: Starz Get a look at the new opening credits! Masquerades and salt circles, war bombing giving way to surging Highlanders—more excellent juxtapositions and plenty of exciting hints for the season. So was Geillis right about the necessity of a blood sacrifice for traveling through the stones? Henry wasn’t able to get through until he got stabbed, and I don’t believe there was a gemstone hidden on that knife, though I’d have to look again. (Just, y’know, you didn’t have to kill the guy, Geillis, just wring out a few drops.) “My heart skips to think of you as a soldier”—Julia’s deadpan delivery to Simon made me crack up, even as I know she was thinking of Henry. There wasn’t time in the finale for Julia and Henry to accept that they may never see Claire again, but Julia remaining stuck in 1715 makes for a wrenching moment when she sobs to Davina that “part of my heart is missing, and I’m afraid it always will be.” Maura/Dougal got only a few minutes of screen time but I’m excited to see how the chaos surrounding their families might make them grow closer. (Current AO3 fic count: 1.) For anyone else who might’ve side-eyed the horoscopes conversation as anachronistic for Julia, apparently the 1910s-1920s really did see a rise in zodiac popularity. Go figure! And no wonder I feel such affinity for Claire, she and I are both Libras. What did you think of the Outlander: Blood of My Blood premiere, and what do you want to see happen in season two?[end-mark] The post The <i>Outlander: Blood of My Blood</i> Season 2 Premiere Separates Fact from Fiction appeared first on Reactor.