“Outlander” has reached the start of the tip. The present’s seventh season premiered on June 16, which means that followers now have lower than two full seasons left till the Fraser household’s story involves a conclusion.
Starz initially introduced the information that the present was ending on Jan. 19, 2023, confirming that the collection’s eighth season could be its final. “What an unimaginable journey with an unimaginable fanbase,” the community tweeted. “‘Outlander’ has formally been renewed for an eighth and closing season.”
On the time, Starz additionally tweeted a video compilation that includes a number of the present’s stars, who thanked viewers for his or her help and devotion through the years. “Thanks a lot for being with us from day one,” stated Caitriona Balfe, who performs Claire Fraser, the collection’s central character whose journey again in time to 1743 catalyzes all the subsequent occasions. Later within the video, Sam Heughan, who performs Jamie Fraser, acknowledged that “each good story has to come back to an finish.”
In response to Balfe, it simply felt like a pure time to convey the present to a detailed. “It is actually unusual considering that this time subsequent 12 months or no matter, it’s going to be completed and that’ll be it, it’s going to be a chapter carried out in my life,” she informed Radio Instances on June 13. “I will undoubtedly battle with that as a result of it has been so nice. It’s going to be unhappy to say goodbye to it. I believe, in some methods, I really feel like we have stated as a lot as we are able to say with these characters and we have type of introduced them up to now of their lives the place it feels prefer it’s the best time to say goodbye to them. I believe having season eight will give us an actual alternative to type of end it correctly. However on the similar time, it is going be so unhappy.”
It could be some time till we really see season eight, although, as it’s at the moment on pause because of the ongoing writers’ strike, Balfe revealed. “Properly, we had a date. And now with the writers’ strike, who is aware of?” she informed Radio Instances. “So now we have to simply wait and see.”
Regardless of the potential delay, the present’s solid is seemingly already apprehensive about saying goodbye. “The tip of this, season seven, abruptly you might really feel it on set,” Heughan stated on the “Pleased Unhappy Confused” podcast in Might. “Everybody was beginning to go, ‘Oh, really, we will come again and do that yet one more time and that is it.’ Everybody was getting fairly emotional about it. I believe it is going to be an enormous change in our lives and likewise actually unhappy to say goodbye to this wonderful journey.”
Whereas we in all probability will not see the unique solid collectively once more onscreen after season eight, luckily, followers of the “Outlander” universe have loads extra to sit up for. In August 2022, the community introduced {that a} prequel collection titled “Outlander: Blood of My Blood” can be on its approach. The prequel will inform the story of Jamie’s mother and father, Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser. “We’re excited to peel again the layers of this vibrant world to convey our viewers the origin of the place all of it started,” Kathryn Busby, president of authentic programming at Starz, stated in an announcement on the time. “We will not wait to see what occurs subsequent.”
