Overview

• Starz released the first two episodes on August 8 and will roll out the remaining eight weekly through October 10.
• Critics lauded the show’s lush period detail and sweeping love stories, though some reviewers pointed to familiar script tropes.
• Showrunner Matthew B. Roberts shaped the standalone prequel with Diana Gabaldon consulting and co-writing two episodes.
• The series interweaves an 18th-century Scottish clan romance with a World War I-era wartime correspondence storyline.
• Season 2 was approved ahead of the premiere and is already in production in Scotland.