Plus, check out an exclusive clip from the premiere.
Our long personal Scottish nightmare is over.
On Sunday, the prolonged Droughtlander will finally come to an end as season 6 ofOutlanderpremieres onStarz.
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Watch the exclusive clip from the premiere above and read on for more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Because of the pandemic, this was a very long Droughtlander.
MARIL DAVIS:I don’t think so.
Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe); Brianna Randall (Sophie Skelton).Robert Wilson/Starz
We’re always in it and always thinking ahead.
We left part of [book six]A Breath of Snow and Ashesstill untold.
Claire ended season 5 having experienced horrific, unspeakable trauma after being kidnapped, tortured and raped.
How is that going to shape her journey this season?
But we struggled to figure out how to tell that story without delving deeper into Claire’s post-traumatic stress.
We’ll see her starting to breakdown a little bit more this season.
People experience it in different ways.
It’s so powerful.
Something like that is also likely to effect intimacy.
How will it impact her and Jamie’s relationship?
We’ve always talked about Jamie and Claire, one of the ways they communicate is through intimacy.
That’s why it’s so important.
We will see the Jamie and Claire we know and love.
I don’t think it changes as much this season in terms of intimacy.
Though Jamie is someone who always knows exactly what is happening with Claire.
He knows what her cycles are, he’s in tune with her.
Roger and Bree attempted to return to the future, but it didn’t work.
Will we see them loop back and try?
This season got kind of truncated.
Roger and Brianna struggled all during season 5 feeling like they were out of place in the 1700s.
Season 6 for them is all about realizing that this is their home.
This season, they’re now trying to find their place here and figure out where they belong.
Roger will take a stab at figure out if preaching is for him.
She’s obviously a little nervous.
Specifically seeing what happened to her mom in season 5.
There’s always new faces onOutlanderand this year one of the main groups is the Christie family.
What can we expect from that trio?
I love the Christies.
He’s so conflicted.
He’s very religious.
He thinks things have to go a certain way.
Yet, he’s actually very passionate.
It’s deep down, but it’s there.
He’s struggling coming to Fraser’s ridge.
There’s a past with him and Jamie.
His kids are also struggling.
Malva, played by the amazing Jessica Reynolds, is in awe of Claire.
She comes in and has never had a strong female figure in her life.
She’s someone she really looks up to.
Allan is an unknown.
He’s in the shadow of his father.
He’s a struggling young man, played by Alexander Vlahos.
They’re both struggling under the strict regime that Tom has imposed upon them.
What they’re bringing us is some turmoil and disruption on the Ridge.
This season will definitely end on a cliffhanger.
We never see Claire and Jamie in a happy place for very long.
I so often joke that I want to send Claire and Jamie on a vacation to Hawaii.
It’s just turmoil and trauma.
This season we don’t get a chance to breathe.
It’s trauma upon trauma or issues upon issues.
And I’m just so excited about where it ends.
I love the end of the season.
It is a cliffhanger and it makes you really want to come back for season 7.
I don’t know when that’s coming back, hopefully, it’s not too long a Droughtlander.
But the season has such a pace to it.
Can you sum up season 6 in three words?
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
