On The Box This Week

Warning-TV Spoilers Ahead!

The Daily Mail seemed a little obsessed with this show and the amount of sex scenes in it the TV critics at the mail must have never watched Outlander!

TBH I am not sure I like this show! At first it looked like it would be everything I like in a historical fiction drama, beautiful costumes, wonderful scenery, and beautiful actors, but it got stale fast!

The script isn't great, it was a mash of strangely edited scenes, when it looked like it would pick up and we would get some action it didn't deliver! Characters were introduced quickly and it was hard to keep track of who is who and I got bored. There was strange scenes of Queen Maire-Therese keeping a half wit dwarf as a pet! While the rest of the show was meant to shock and look racy but for me it lacked. Sure the cast look beautiful, but the script wasn't great, yes there was sex scenes, but they didn't add to the plot and tbh where quite meh, there was violence but the viewer didn't understand why, something to do with tax and rebellion plots. The characters aren't very likable the female characters didn't get enough air time to know much about them. The King's brother Philippe seems like a good villain of the show and The King himself wasn't very likable he spent most of the episode dreaming of his new palace or shagging! There are shows which have done this type of thing much better before The Tudors, Game of Thrones and Outlander come to mind. I am only watching the next episode because of the twist at the end of the first episode. I will give episode two a watch and see if it gets better if not Versailles will be getting the chop!

Modern Family finished up season seven and for the Summer this week

Alex is home from college for the summer and nobody notices, I think Alex was underused this season it would be nice for her to get a real storyline next season and maybe a good romance.

Haley and Andy try make a long distance relationship work as Andy has a chance of a dream job. This storyline has been a major let down for me this season, not enough screen time for these two as when there on screen there really good and funny, it's just getting a little dragged out.

In the end the three families end up all going on different holidays with out the others knowing and that in itself was funny. I am hoping next season it comes back with strong storylines for Jay, Haley, Alex and Manny.

So our couple are back in Scotland and Starz released a mid season poster which I love so I had to use it! Also the titles once again have Scotland in them and the use of the bagpipes I have loved how the creators of the show have changed the title images and song according.

Claire, Jamie and Fergus are back in Scotland and have been recovering and healing in Lallybroch.

Jamie and Claire seem to have healed alot since losing there baby and seem very much in love. Which was lovely to see and reminded me of the Claire and Jamie of season one. It looks like they have been in Lallybroch for many months. I would of liked to see a little more of there day to day life while they healed after Paris, I know timing is a issue but surely the could of fit in a three minute montage of daily life in Lallybroch before another drama arises!

Jamie receives a letter to state that Bonnie Prince Charles is heading to Scotland and has named Jamie as one loyal to him. Thus making Jamie and his family traitors to the crown. Jamie knows he will now have to fight to save Scotland and his way of life, so himself and Claire come up with a plan to try rally all the clans so they will change history and win the battle with the English.

His first stop on his list of recruitment is with his Grandfather Lord Lovat, these scenes are wonderful and Beaufort castle was how I imagined from the book.

The adding of Laoghaire had alot of Outlander fans up in arms as it takes away one of the big story arcs in the book. I come to Outlander as a TV fan first and a reader of the books second, yes I read Dragonfly before the TV show aired but it was the TV show which I discovered first. So I watch with an open mind knowing as I have said before somethings don't fit screen as well as they do in the books. While I didn't hate the Laoghaire plot in this episode I personally don't think it added anything either and could of been left out or cut from the episode and the viewer wouldn't have missed anything. The writers could of just have Lord Lovat's son Simon grow a back bone for a different reason and then lots of very loyal book fans wouldn't of been annoyed.

One thing I enjoyed but did think was a little corny is the way Claire and Jaime are now using the whole white witch thing to there advanced! It was funny but for me it slightly lessen the whole be scared of a witch trial of season one.

On the whole I liked this episode but don't feel like the changes from the book added anything to the plot or story arc.

This episode done a scene before the credits not a thing we have seen before in Thrones. The opening scene revealed that Sandor Clegane The Hound was alive unlike Jon Snow we never actually saw him die but like Jon The Hound is unsure of this new lease of life and not sure what to do with himself now. He is working with Ian McShane a Septon who took him under his wing, and gave him work. 

In the north Jon and Sansa with the help of Davos are trying to recruit the houses of the North together without much luck. They don't have half the men they need to fight Rasay, Sansa wants to wait and try get some more men for there army, but Jon knows a snow storm is coming and wants them to march on Winterfell. Sansa writes a letter to Littlefinger to ask for the help she declined earlier to take back Winterfell.

Jamie arrives at Riverrun confronting Blackfish telling him he will take Riverrun back by force. Jamie's storylines have been a bit disappointing since season three, the writers don't seem to know where to go next with him. He seems to be right back to where he was in season one the head of the King's army hopefully his story arc will pick up soon. 

Back in Kings Landing The Queen of Thorns is despairingly trying to get Margery to see sense. Margery tells her Grandmother that the Gods see and hear everything and passes her a note. It tells her Grandmother she is still a game player and her loyalty is not with the High Sparrow but with her family house. 

Arya is strolling around Bravos without a care in the world, that is until the Waif stabs her in the stomach three times! Arya does get away but she is badly injured.

The Hound is still with the Septon's group until a gang from the Brotherhood Without Banners wipes them out while he is cutting fire wood. The Hound picks up an ax and walks away to get his revenge