Outlander: Blood of My Blood
NZ release: 08 August 2025
Sex scenes, violence, content that may disturb, cruelty Rated on: 08 August 2025
Episodes 1-2
What’s it about?
The first two episodes of Outlander: Blood of My Blood introduce two parallel love stories across different centuries. In 1714 Scotland, clan politics and tradition threaten to keep Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser apart, while in World War I–era London, Julia and Henry Beauchamp’s romance is abruptly upended when a mysterious accident sends them through time—each landing in a different clan and fighting to be reunited.
The facts
- Created by Ronald D. Moore
- Starring Harriet Slater, Jamie Roy, Hermione Corfield, Jeremy Irvine, Rory Alexander, Sam Retford, and Séamus McLean Ross
- English language
- 10 episodes, each around 60 minutes long
Why did it get this rating?
This series was self-rated by Neon. You can find out more about self-rating by streaming providers here.
Sex scenes
The show centres around themes of romance and marriage, with frequent sexual content. In one scene, two young boys peer through a hole to watch a man and woman having sex standing up, moaning and thrusting aggressively, with the woman’s bare breasts and the man’s bare buttocks shown.
Another scene involves two characters having sex on a picnic blanket. We see their buttocks and faces as they both climax, but otherwise they are clothed.
Sexual references are made frequently, such as women speaking of how a man died “mounted on a maidservant.” It is unclear as to whether this was a reference to sexual assault or not.
Violence and cruelty
Bloody battle scenes are shown throughout the show, with soldiers bludgeoning, shooting, stabbing, and gassing each other. We see fistfights, dead bodies, and on-screen killings.
In one scene, a man slices off another’s fingers on-screen, with blood and gore shown.
Episode two starts with a WW1 battle scene. Men are seen lying dead on barbed wire fences and one young man is seen crying on the battlefield, bleeding from a bullet wound in his chest. A man saves him and brings him to safety, but when the camera comes back to him, we see his lifeless face after he died from his wounds.
The opening of the show involves a woman crying over her father’s dead body, supposedly during its preparation for burial.
Two characters crash their car into a lake after a deer walks onto the road. This may be a shock to some viewers; however, they make it out unharmed.
Content that may disturb
Boys talk about how their father beat one of them to make him strong.
A man is seen wailing and suffering from trauma from his time on the frontline in WW1.
A woman trying to look for her husband is abducted by a Scottish clan and kept as a housemaid, where she is beaten for acting out.
Sexual violence
A character grabs a housemaid's hand at the dinner table. She is later told not to be around him alone, implying sexual violence.
Offensive language
This show contains the use of offensive language, with words like “bastard” and "c*ck.”
Helplines:
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