Outlander: Blood of My Blood, a spin-off series on Starz, is set to return with its second season starting Friday, September 18. The show explores the backstory of Claire Fraser’s parents, Julia and Henry Beauchamp, who travel back in time through the mystical stones of Craigh na Dun to 1710s Scotland, intertwining their fate with that of Jamie Fraser's parents, Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser. Season two builds on the lore established in season one, continuing the narrative around historical romance and time travel drama.
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Outlander: Blood of My Blood returns for its second season this Friday, September 18 whisking Starz subscribers back to the Scottish highlands for more romance, more action, and more time travel drama.
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Blood → return → romance
The original Outlander show might have come to an end last spring, leaving audiences with their final look at Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), but the Outlander saga is far from over.
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saga → come → Claire
Outlander: Blood of My Blood deepens the lore of the super popular series by exploring what happened to Claire’s parents — Julia (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) — after they traveled through the Stones at Craigh na Dun and wound up in the 1710s.
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they → deepen → 1710s
There, they not only find themselves wrapped up in their own star-crossed adventure, but they also run into and affect the lives of Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy).
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they → find → parents
Whether you’re missing Outlander and want to figure out if the prequel series is right for you, or you just want a recap of Blood of My Blood Season 1 before you start Season 2
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, here’s everything you need to know about what Outlander: Blood of My Blood is about…
What is Outlander: Blood of My Blood About?
Outlander: Blood of My Blood is a spin-off of the original Starz series Outlander created by long-time Outlander showrunner Matthew B. Roberts.
While it’s true that Outlander author Diana Gabaldon is working on books about Jamie’s parents, Outlander: Blood of My Blood comes with a twist we won’t find in her novels.
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Roberts came up with the idea that maybe — just maybe — Claire’s parents didn’t die in a car crash when she was six years old.
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she → come → crash
Instead, they traveled, like her, through the stones to a version of Scotland roughly 200 years in the past.
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they → travel → past
So while we get to see a fairly accurate depiction of Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser’s forbidden romance play out in 18th century Scotland, we also get to learn how Claire’s parents fell in love during World War I only to be separated on their own fraught journeys back in time.
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parents → get → time
Henry finds himself roped into being a bladier (or lawyer) for the imperious Grant family, while a pregnant Julia must seduce the vile Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) to ensure she and her baby can survive the unforgiving time period.
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she → find → period
Since Brian Fraser is Lovat’s bastard son, Julia gets roped into his and Ellen’s love story.
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Julia → rope → story
You Need to Remember Ahead of Season 2
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Blood of My Blood Season 1 opens with Ellen MacKenzie mourning the death of her beloved father, the powerful laird “Red Jacob” MacKenzie (Peter Mullan).
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MacKenzie → open → father
Red Jacob’s sudden passing thrusts Clan MacKenzie into a succession crisis because Ellen may be both the eldest and her father’s truest heir, but she can’t inherit the title because she’s a woman.
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she → thrust → title
Her younger brothers — clever, but physically disabled Colum (Séamus McLean Ross) and strong, but brash Dougal (Sam Retford) — want to fight for the honor, but face a serious threat from outsider James MacKinney (Ryan Fletcher).
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brothers → want → MacKinney
Ellen eventually works out a plan where her brothers will split leadership.
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brothers → work → leadership
This is the tense, but ultimately (mostly) successful set up Claire discovers when she arrives at Castle Leoch a generation later.
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she → discover → Leoch
Meanwhile, Malcolm Grant (Jhon Lumsden), the heir apparent to the wealthiest clan is set on making Ellen his wife.
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Ellen → set → clan
Tough cookies, though, because Ellen falls in love at first sight with her soulmate (and Jamie Fraser’s daddy), Brian.
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Ellen → fall → soulmate
Ellen reluctantly agrees to marry Malcolm, all the while she secretly handfasts herself to Brian.
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she → agree → Brian
Colum hires assassins (known as Gallowglass) to murder Brian, but he kills them.
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he → hire → them
Ultimately, Ellen runs away from her own wedding — forcing the families to wed Malcolm’s sister Maura (Bobby Rainsbury) to Dougal — to be with Brian.
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Ellen → run → Brian
A drunk Malcolm confronts the lovers as they flee and baits Brian into a fight.
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they → confront → fight
Malcolm dies, and Brian and Ellen go into hiding with Murtagh (Rory Alexander).
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Brian → die → Murtagh
However, when the season ends with a new Jacobite Rebellion uprising, the lovers know that they must play their parts in the war ahead before they can be happily ever after.
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they → end → war
While all this (and more) is going down, Claire’s parents struggle to accept their new realities in 1714.
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parents → go → 1714
Julia is sold into service to Lovat and uses his lust to coerce him into a marriage to protect her baby, William (whom Lovat calls Simon and believes is fated to become king).
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Lovat → sell → baby
Henry is told by eventual Outlander Season 7 baddie Arch Bug (Terence Rae) that Julia died in childbirth.
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Julia → tell → childbirth
Overcome with grief and PTSD, he finds comfort in the arms of sex worker Seema (Lauren McQueen), believing she is Julia.
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she → Overcome → Seema
Eventually, though, Claire’s mom and dad reunite and hatch a plan to escape to the stones with baby William.
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mom → reunite → William
They stage an abduction from Leathers and get to the stones — only for Arch Bug and his heavies to catch up.
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Bug → stage → stones
They keep trying to travel back to Claire’s timeline, but it’s not working.
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it → keep → timeline
The season ends with them reaching for the stones as Arch Bug attacks.
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Bug → end → stones
There’s an unrequited love line between Ellen’s married sister Jocasta (Sadhbh Malin) who loves Murtagh, and Murtagh who loves Ellen, who obviously loves Brian.
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who → ’ → Brian
The effects of this are still felt decades later in the original Outlander series.
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effects → feel → series
When Does Blood of My Blood Season 2 Start?
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Blood of My Blood Season 2 comes out on Friday, September 18 on Starz.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 Episode 1 “Remembrance Day” will be available to stream at midnight on the Starz app.
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The episode will air on the Starz channel at 8 PM ET and will play in encores at 9:05 PM, 10:10 PM, and 11:15 PM that same night.
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Right now, new episodes of Blood of My Blood Season 2 are scheduled to premiere weekly on Fridays through November 20, 2026.
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Here’s when every episode of Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2 is currently scheduled to come out:
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…and 3 more, not listed.
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