Turning Points (S07E08)

It still has certain qualities; it’s really great that covid didn’t cut the series short, but the part focusing on the birth of the United States is quite exhausting now (though logically more attractive to an American audience). The constant dramas are so repeatedly fatal that it paradoxically leads to numbness. I’ve long stopped investing any emotions in these characters and don’t care about them. Moreover, the time travel has lost its charm because it’s too frequent and constantly used as an easy solution to various situations. The main characters’ family is growing, secondary characters are changing, but the energy that it had in the first three books/series is long gone. The only positive aspect I would note is that Gabaldon portrays the 1960s in Scotland in a soberly negative way. (09/09/2024)