Outlander Executive Producer Maril Davis for Parade Magazine on Episode 7×08: Turning Points
From Parade:
Today’s episode of Outlander marks the mid-season finale, but it is also the last episode of 2023—the Droughtlander begins—until the second half of Season 7 airs in 2024. But the good news is that it is brimming with goodies that includes all our main characters—Jamie (Sam Heughan), Claire (Caitríona Balfe), Brianna (Sophie Skelton), Roger (Richard Rankin), Young Ian (John Bell) and William (Charles Vandervaart).
“The Jamie and Claire storyline isn’t so much a cliffhanger as it’s a start of a next chapter, and it leaves them, I think, in a good place,” executive producer Maril Davis tells Parade in this exclusive interview about the mid-season finale. “Whereas Brianna and Roger is more of a cliffhanger. We don’t know what will happen with their son Jemmy’s storyline in the second half of the season. I’m so excited for people to see that back half, because you know the first half was so good, but the back half is, in my mind, even better.”
The decision to greenlight an eighth season of Outlander hadn’t been made when the producers and writers were putting together Season 7 —which was supersized to 16 episodes after season 6 had to be shortened due to COVID—but a lot of thought and consideration went into the season in case it turned out to be the final one.
“This season just came together so magically,” Davis continues. “Part of it was we were all back together and that felt really wonderful. But also, this season is so jampacked because going into it and not realizing that there was going to be an eighth season, thinking it could potentially be our last, we just were like, ‘OK, let’s use all the material we have left and try to just get everything in.’
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Just watched 708 and I can’t even speak. Loved it. I’m never into fight scenes, but that battle was so real I may get PTSD. I know it’s a serious condition when I say this. The sound of the cannons and guns was piercing my ears. I see now why men come back from war with many problems. I so appreciate the banter between J/C from the book. Love their dialogue ! Sam was given the real Jamie to act this season. I felt it was sorely missing in some previous seasons leaving me to wonder whether Jamie had morphed into some woke fool. Omg. Droughtlander is here.
Just watched 708 and I can’t even speak. Loved it. I’m never into fight scenes, but that battle was so real I may get PTSD. I know it’s a serious condition when I say this. The sound of the cannons and guns was piercing my ears. I see now why men come back from war with many problems. I so appreciate the banter between J/C from the book. Love their dialogue ! Sam was given the real Jamie to act this season. I felt it was sorely missing in some previous seasons leaving me to wonder whether Jamie had morphed into some woke fool.