‘Outlander’ Review: A Key Character’s Life Hangs in the Balance During Visceral Episode

Just when “Outlander” fans thought the Frasers could enjoy some quality family time on the homestead, tragedy struck again on Sunday night’s “Monsters and Heroes” when Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Roger (Richard Rankin) went out hunting for buffalo to prepare for the winter.

It was immediately clear the excursion would be an opportunity for son- and father-in-law to further bond despite their differences, but what neither of them bargained for was Jamie being bit by a venomous snake that did worse than leave him feeling like “a mouldy pile of tripe.”From that moment on the episode focused on Jamie’s battle to survive, first in the forest where he and Roger were forced to camp, and then later on at Fraser’s Ridge as Claire (Caitriona Balfe) tended to his worsening injuries.

Despite Roger’s quick thinking he wasn’t able to cut and suck all of the venom out of the bite,

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