Outlander 5.3: Misery

Well, Outlander 5.3 was a pretty miserable episode.  Literally, as in being reminiscent of Misery, though the Stephen King novel may have been better.

Claire at least did get a baby to take care of, but what she and we had to go through to get there did not need to take up almost all of the episode.  And while we learned the story of the wretch of a man, in such bad shape that Jamie had to out him out of his misery, we got no advancement on most of the other plotlines.

Jamie tells Claire that Bonner is alive but nothing more on that.  Claire tells Jamie that Brianna and Roger want to go back to the their present with their baby, but no motion on that either.  The antibiotic story moved just a smidgen when Claire discovered that none of her growing molds are penicillin.

And while we're at it, nothing new in the impending war between the Redcoats and Regulators, either.   Jamie's still caught in the middle, and the vice is squeezing just as tightly.  So, it's a great series, with an especially great season so far, but this episode was something of an aberration.  At least the scenery was as verdant as always, and the horses ridden in the meadow, across the fields, make for wonderful shots.

See also Outlander 5.1: Father of the Bride ... Outlander 5.2: Antibiotics and Time Travel

And see also Outlander 4.1: The American Dream ... Outlander 4.2: Slavery ...Outlander 4.3: The Silver Filling ... Outlander 4.4: Bears and Worse and the Remedy ... Outlander 4.5: Chickens Coming Home to Roost ... Outlander 4.6: Jamie's Son ... Outlander 4.7: Brianna's Journey and Daddy ... Outlander 4.8: Ecstasy and Agony ... Outlander 4.9: Reunions ... Outlander 4.10: American Stone ... Outlander 4.11: Meets Pride and Prejudice ... Outlander 4.12: "Through Time and Space" ... Outlander Season 4 Finale:  Fair Trade

And see also Outlander Season 3 Debut: A Tale of Two Times and Places ...Outlander 3.2: Whole Lot of Loving, But ... Outlander 3.3: Free and Sad ... Outlander 3.4: Love Me Tender and Dylan ... Outlander 3.5: The 1960s and the Past ... Outlander 3.6: Reunion ... Outlander 3.7: The Other Wife ... Outlander 3.8: Pirates! ... Outlander 3.9: The Seas ...Outlander 3.10: Typhoid Story ... Outlander 3.11: Claire Crusoe ...Outlander 3.12: Geillis and Benjamin Button ... Outlander 3.13: Triple Ending

And see also Outlander 2.1: Split Hour ... Outlander 2.2: The King and the Forest ... Outlander 2.3: Mother and Dr. Dog ... Outlander 2.5: The Unappreciated Paradox ... Outlander 2.6: The Duel and the Offspring ...Outlander 2.7: Further into the Future ... Outlander 2.8: The Conversation ... Outlander 2.9: Flashbacks of the Future ... Outlander 2.10: One True Prediction and Counting ... Outlander 2.11: London Not Falling ... Outlander 2.12: Stubborn Fate and Scotland On and Off Screen ... Outlander Season 2 Finale: Decades

And see also Outlander 1.1-3: The Hope of Time Travel ... Outlander 1.6:  Outstanding ... Outlander 1.7: Tender Intertemporal Polygamy ...Outlander 1.8: The Other Side ... Outlander 1.9: Spanking Good ... Outlander 1.10: A Glimmer of Paradox ... Outlander 1.11: Vaccination and Time Travel ... Outlander 1.12: Black Jack's Progeny ...Outlander 1.13: Mother's Day ... Outlander 1.14: All That Jazz ... Outlander Season 1 Finale: Let's Change History