OUTLANDER series on STARZ is Outlandishly Good

Blimey, the sci-fi, time traveling series that transports a British woman in 1945 back to Scotland in 1743 is transfixing and addicting.  Season 1 (of 2 with episodes each) begins on the day WWII ended.  Claire, our bonnie lass is a trained nurse who spent 5 years at the front caring for the countless wounded in the war.  Claire is seen awashed in blood tending to a severed arterie.  She steps outside the surgery hospital & is met by revellers jubilant with news war has finally ended.  She's passed a bottle of champagne which she promptly quaffs in one long chug.  Even for a young woman of mid 20thC, Claire is formidable, self-reliant, sexually liberated.  She's a woman ahead of her times. Her husband, Frank, from whom she's been apart during the entire war, are reunited.  They head off on a 2nd honeymoon to Scotland as Frank puts it.  Or, as Claire puts it, to get reacquainted.  Frank is a history prof. and eager to learn of his Scottish lineage.  They explore catacombs and walk through cemeteries covered in ancient headstones.  It is the historic hence stones that pique Claire's interest.  She returns on her own to gather medicinal plants & is drawn towards a large hence stone.  She leans against the stone and is catapulted back in time (same place) to the mid 17thC.  This sumptuous series has something for everyone: sex, violence, history and intrigue.  At the heart is a most  compelling mystery that drives forward the story.  Will she or won't she make it back to Inverness Scotland where the henge stones stand which hold the possibility of returning her to the life & husband she knows in the 20th C?  Will she or won't she find love with the handsome Scottish lad?  Will she survive in the harsh but beautiful Highlands?  Will her nursing skills & foreknowledge help or put her in danger?  And, what exactly is uder those kilts?  Are you kidding me?  I'm totally enraptured by life in Scotland in the 17thC & the skirmishes & malcontent brewing between Scotts & the British regime. I'm intrigued with the flashbacks (or are they flash forwards to her "real" life) she led in England.  I guarantee this series will sweep you away & make you weep for more episodes.