A British nurse travels through time into a mysterious world and the only means of survival is to marry a strapping Scots warrior with a complicated past and a disarming sense of humor.
"The Search," is a fascinating episode of television that incorporates many of the elements that make Outlander such a simultaneously incisive and subversive series.
"The Search" was the first average episode of Outlander for me. That being said, this individual outing was still miles ahead of what is on television, but some of the smaller problems that I've noticed about the show before were magnified here.
"The Search" is - full of singing, dancing, palm-reading, cross-dressing, and even some glints of sexual tension here and there - one can't complain. Plus, it's a well-directed episode, one that shows Scotland off to its best advantage.
In what has become something of a recurring theme in this first season, one Fraser has become captive, the other rescuer. In "The Search" it is Claire who must deliver Jamie from the clutches of the Red Coats.
"The Search" for Jamie Fraser truly was only a search because tonight's Outlander didn't lead Claire to her husband's arms. Not directly. It was a bold decision to not show the leading man for an entire episode and a successful one.
The next section of "The Search" is one of the more bizarre stretches of the Outlander saga, with Claire exploring an unexpected side of herself that she never could have predicted.
