How Outlander's season finale brilliantly broke all the rules

All season long, the time-traveling show experimented with spoilers. It finally paid off.

Caitriona Balfe (as Claire Randall Fraser), Sam Heughan (as Jamie Fraser).
(Image credit: Steffan Hill/2016 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All rights reserved.)

Outlander's second season ended as it began: with a declaration of war on all spoilerphobes.

"Oh, you'd rather not know?" said the show in its winsome Scottish brogue. "Tough. Whit's fur ye'll no go by ye. Claire's back in the present. BOOM."

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Lili Loofbourow

Lili Loofbourow is the culture critic at TheWeek.com. She's also a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books and an editor for Beyond Criticism, a Bloomsbury Academic series dedicated to formally experimental criticism. Her writing has appeared in a variety of venues including The Guardian, Salon, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, and Slate.