The wait is over for the next installment of Outlander: Blood of My Blood. The show had a double-episode premiere on August 8, 2025, with new episodes releasing every Friday. The prequel series has been keeping audiences gripped within its dual timelines. Episode 3, titled "School of the Moon", will release on August 15, and it will pick up from the emotional threads and historical drama that have already found its footing with the fans of Outlander.
Mixing the drama and romance of Jamie Fraser's parents in Scotland in the 18th century with the war fervor of Claire Beauchamp's parents in England in early 20th-century England, Outlander: Blood of My Blood provides a multi-level storytelling experience seen so seldom in period dramas.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood release date and time
Outlander: Blood of My Blood episode 3 premiered its two-episode launch on August 8, 2025, with weekly Friday rollout, with Episode 3, “School of the Moon” being released on August 15, 2025. It can first be seen in the United States on the STARZ app at midnight ET, then also airs on the STARZ cable channel at 8:00 p.m. ET. It can be streamed by Canadian audiences simultaneously on Crave or Prime Video (with STARZ add-on), or on the linear STARZ channel at 9:00 p.m.
The program will be available in the U.K. on MGM+ on Prime Video, while Australian audiences can stream it exclusively on Stan from 12:30 p.m. AEST on release day. For those areas where Outlander: Blood of My Blood is not readily available, Outlander fans have been utilizing VPN services to still be updated with weekly releases in order to be part of the worldwide buzz for the show.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood streaming details
Similar to past episodes, Outlander: Blood of My Blood will be on a weekly Friday release format, keeping the audience interested throughout its 10-episode Season 1. The series is exclusively watchable on STARZ in the United States and globally exactly segmented on the following platforms: Canada's Prime Video with STARZ and Crave, the U.K.'s MGM+, and Australia's Stan.
International release was almost simultaneous, which reduced the spoilers for international viewers spread across time zones. The fact that STARZ has kept both linear TV and streaming TV releases ensures that Outlander: Blood of My Blood hits today's binge-viewing population as much as it hits the traditional TV viewers valuing appointment viewing.
What happened in the last episode
In the second part of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, tensions mounted on both sides of time. In Scotland, Harriet Slater remained behind to navigate through the knotted clan and political loyalties that would forge and destroy her destiny, and Jamie Roy's Brian Fraser gave additional glimpses of the charm and tenacity that fans have come to associate with Jamie, his son, in the prime series.
While Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) grappled with growing disadvantage in blitzed England, as World War hung increasingly large over their lives, Episode 2 weighed individual stakes against larger historical tensions, setting the stage for increasingly deeper emotional involvement and ethical complexity in episodes to come.
What to expect from the next episode
Episode 3, "School of the Moon," will likely place the audience deep within both of the main couples' formative years. Ellen's decisions in Scotland will maybe begin to have irreparable effects as political tensions rise, perhaps foreshadowing the earlier patterns of the Fraser legacy.
In England, Julia and Henry's tale might be the first honest taste of the time-travel hook set early in the series, connecting the two timelines of the prequel. Having in the title, a word associated with learning and philosophy, this episode might mesh teaching, self, and transformation in ways that will strongly resonate with committed Outlander fans.
Story structure
Perhaps the greatest strength of Outlander: Blood of My Blood is its two-timeline narrative setup, where the show gets to have two love affairs go on for decades in two different timelines but somehow feel quintessentially intertwined. The Scottish timeline plunks the viewer into 18th-century clan politics and familial allegiances, as well as Ellen MacKenzie's romance with Brian Fraser, while the English timeline plunks the viewer into the very different world of the chaos and ruin of World War I.
The series has already begun to do some signaling about a theoretical time-travel overlap between the two narratives, a canny move that keeps the prequel aligned with the larger Outlander universe.
Main cast
Outlander: Blood of My Blood main cast features a mix of new faces and franchise staples. Harriet Slater adds depth and determination to Ellen MacKenzie, Jamie Roy embodies warmth and grit as Brian Fraser, Hermione Corfield adds quiet determination to Julia Moriston, and Jeremy Irvine plays Henry Beauchamp with brawny charm.
Supporting performances enhance both timelines, and the historical accuracy of costumes, locations, and dialogue, shot on location across Glasgow and Doune Castle, serves to locate the series firmly in its respective times.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 1 will comprise 10 episodes, all shot on location in Scotland, and has already been commissioned for Season 2, with filming already confirmed to resume. The accuracy of the show to history is also replicated in the period details, dialogue, and even cultural norms of England and Scotland of their times.
While the time-traveling aspect in the case of Claire's parents is not investigated within the books of Diana Gabaldon, this has been taken over as an artistic narrative device by the writers of the series and carries on the series' running theme of investigating fate, history, and love spanning centuries.