Outlander is a wild ride. Set in 18th century Scottish Highlands, it tells Claire Randall’s story. She is a married combat nurse from 1945. One day, she zaps back to 1743. Confusing, right? Claire gets caught up in Jacobite risings and meets Scottish clans. Oh and she finds love with rugged Highlander, Jamie Fraser. This show mixes history, fantasy and romance. It takes you on a mesmerizing journey filled with intrigue, danger and love that lasts. Don’t miss it!

Meet the characters from Outlander

Jamie Fraser

Jamie is a walking contradiction — a fierce Highland warrior who will smash a man with his sword and then kneel to patch a bird’s wing. He’s all honor, mischief, and those ridiculous tender moments that make you swoon (yes, the kilt… and no he is not always brooding, sometimes he’s surprisingly silly). Loyal to the bone, stubborn like granite, and maddeningly secretive about his past — but also a poet? (He will probably write a poem and then deny it immediately.) He can be thunderous in battle and embarrassingly soft at the tea table, and somehow both feel completely true.

Claire Fraser

Claire is sharp, practical, and impossibly brave — the kind of woman who will stitch a wound by day and argue philosophy by night. She carries modern logic into the past with a stubborn coolness, jabbering medical facts while also cursing like a sailor (she likes gin, I swear, though sometimes she cooks like an old lady). She’s tender and ferocious towards the people she loves, very no-nonsense but secretly sentimental about small things — a locket, a teacup, whatever. Her moral compass is gnarly; she makes impossible choices and you will want to hug and shake her at the same time.

Brianna Fraser

Brianna is spicy, brainy, and full of modern snark — genius-level with a stubborn streak that never quits. She’s a scientist trapped in the 1700s in the best way, equal parts furious and fascinated by all the nonsense around her. Mother fiercely, daughter fiercely too — complicated family feelings but so much love, and she collects ugly teapots for some reason (don’t ask). She’s brave but occasionally very human about panic and mistakes, which makes her oddly relatable, like she’d text you memes then lecture you about gun safety.

Jonathan Randall

Jonathan (Black Jack) Randall is polished, terrifying, and surgically cruel — the kind of villain who smiles as he tightens his grip. He presents as a flawless officer with neat clothes and worse impulses underneath; terrifying charisma plus horrifying control. There’s a weird glamour to him — you can see why people are unnerved — but don’t confuse that with anything noble; he’s slippery and dangerous. Also, he probably drinks port and writes smug little notes to himself, which is the worst kind of terrifying.

Geillis Duncan

Geillis is delightfully unnerving — witchy, clever, and theatrical, like she walked straight out of a ballad and into a moonlit hedge. She knows plants and people, which is the scariest combo, and she loves attention in an unsettlingly political way. Seductive, ruthless, and brilliant in equal measure — you think you understand her and then she throws a spell or a chess move and you’re wrong. Also she collects weird herbs and probably writes edgy poetry in a tiny notebook she hides; she’ll wink about it and you won’t know if the wink was sincere.

John Grey

John Grey is steady as an old clock — honorable, gentle, and stubbornly faithful (he’s the sort of guy who will make you tea at three a.m.). He’s complex under the surface, earnest and intensely devoted and also secretly carrying a lot of grief and questions about himself. A loyal soldier with a moral backbone, he surprises people with small kindnesses and an unexpected dry humor. He loves horses perhaps too much and will quietly bake bread when the world feels chaotic — or maybe he only thinks about baking; either way, comforting.

Frank Randall

Frank is bookish, antiquarian, and painfully tethered to the past — a scholar who obsesses over lineage and maps like they’re treasure. He’s quiet, often awkward in the emotional department, but fiercely curious (and slightly nosy — definitely a file cabinet of secrets). Jealousy drags him, he can be small-minded at times yet also oddly brave when faced with real danger. He loves a good Latin quote, wears tweed, and collects postcards; sometimes he acts like a hero, sometimes like a grumpy librarian, which is oddly endearing.

Roger MacKenzie

Roger is a clumsy romantic — a historian with musical tendencies who worries too much but somehow keeps going. He’s tender, loyal, full of anxiety and fierce love (he goes from bookish to brave like someone flipping a switch). He writes songs, mispronounces Gaelic sometimes, apologizes too often, and will rescue a dog whether he knows it’s a bad idea or not. Also he’s secretly stubborn and surprisingly reckless for someone who writes footnotes for a living; he’s messy in the best way.

Marsali MacKimmie

Marsali starts off as sharp-tongued and kind of a gossip but grows into this incredibly competent, practical woman who gets things done. She’s resourceful, a little bossy, protective of her family, and endlessly ambitious in small, wonderful ways (like secretly being proud of a garden she can’t keep alive publicly). She juggles motherhood, social climbing, and being quietly brave, often with a sarcastic quip and a casserole in hand. Also she hoards ribbons and has an inexplicable fondness for embroidered handkerchiefs — details matter to her, even if she pretends otherwise.