AMEN. Ditto all of the above for anyone who ever suggests someone should "fix" something about their appearance. My face is not broken!

Unless the show deviates quite a bit from the book, you're going to be disappointed. Heughan et al have referred to Jamie as "King of Men," and they're not wrong- he's kind of the classic Hero, saving the day and whatnot. Claire's the one that gets to have all the complexity, and that's fine by me.

I was wondering if anyone else was going to mention the farting. The show earned my husband's affection with the scene.

I think you more or less have to see them as good fun and not get too worked up about it one way or the other, right? I dearly hope no one's confusing a rollicking good story with the study of history.

Maaaaaaaaybe.

They thought about calling it "We Need to Eat Yogurt When We're Depressed and Staring Out the Window at the Rain," but it was too long.

Contrast this to the time he hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner, though. He probably single-handedly ended the entire "Trump presidency" nonsense with one joke, and I'll bet The Donald still seethes over it. He clearly has it in him to push buttons when he wants.

Roasted okra with garlic, cracked pepper and a little nutmeg is THE BOMB. That is all.

I've never seen Justified or the Walking Dead, both ripe for picking apart by a native. I'm sure I'll binge watch and shout at the TV eventually!

SPOILER (I think we've warned them all we can, now)

All we know about our Robert was that he lit out from Donegal in 1797 with his wife and child (and, family lore has it, a mattress and a musket, the latter of which still hangs above some cousin-or-other's mantelpiece). Someone in my grandmother's generation did a fair amount of research in Ireland and Scotland, but…

Thank you SO much for this! I had an inkling of this from my own family history, as we had a Robert Murray who emigrated from Ireland- an Ulster Scot, I believe you call them. So his forebears must have been given land in Ireland by the English Crown, but then he had to sneak out after a local uprising (presumably…

Here's a bit of Mr. Belding trivia: he did a great cameo as a Snake Oil Salesman in "A Million Ways to Die in the West" (which, I know, Seth MacFarlane- but it was hilarious!).

Oh, do tell! I know the politics must be oversimplified, and she corrected some inaccuracies in the Gaelic she used in subsequent books- but what* would be cringeworthy for a UK audience?

I've been thinking about this a lot, trying to steel myself a bit and not let it kill my Jamie-boner. I have my bullet points prepared.

VICTORY!!! Thanks to everyone for your help!

I am, though I've yet to successfully "torrent", apparently. When I go to Frostwire et al, I am only getting linked to Youtube channels that require you to give a credit card to subscribe. What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I have actually cried over the fact that I can't get this show anywhere. I must be completely inept technologically, or perhaps I'm supposed to go ahead and give my credit card number to these shady-sounding operations on the internet that promise I won't be charged? Is that how this is really supposed to work?

I'm glad to hear we don't do absolutely everything wrong. Still, how is this guy not in jail? I need to find out more about this (but I'm thinking maybe I don't want to know).

So you can have a gun if you're a felon, but not the right to vote. Got it.