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Entertainment · Television & streaming · published 2026-08-31 · via The Hollywood Reporter

Outlander Prequel Season 2 Trailer Shows Couples Torn Apart Again

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The second season of the Starz prequel, premiering Sept. 18, picks up with the Jacobite rising of 1715 looming. The trailer reveals that only Henry returns through the standing stones, landing in a psychiatric hospital in an unknown era. Julia is forced back to Castle Leathers, where her estranged husband Lord Lovat poses a renewed threat.

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The trailer establishes a stark contrast between the two couples' fates. Henry's displacement into a psychiatric ward suggests the series will explore how time travel intersects with trauma, particularly his experience as a World War I veteran. His institutionalized costume, which actor Jeremy Irvine noted surprised him during a fitting, signals a significant tonal shift for his storyline.

Julia's forced return to Castle Leathers places her back under Lord Lovat's control, with the child he believes is his own. Meanwhile, Brian and Ellen's romance faces new pressures as Brian must navigate loyalty to his scheming father, Simon Fraser, while the 1715 Jacobite rising reshapes political allegiances across Scotland. The season's opening question—whether Julia, Henry

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