Jamie looks dashing, of course, but Claire one-ups him with a show-stopping number in lipstick red with a plunging neckline. Louise has invited Claire to the royal court with her, and Claire wrangles an invitation for Jamie, as well, so both of our heroes get dolled up to meet the king. Seems that Jamie should have bought her one of those dildos. (Like everyone in history who’s ever said that, she doesn’t mean it either.) Poor Claire. “It’s bare!” And then, after he takes a closer look: “It’s more complicated than it looks when it’s thatched over.” Hee! Jamie’s intrigued enough to do a little exploring - at least until he’s shaken by a flashback to his recent sexual trauma.Ĭlaire assures a shaken Jamie that it’s fine and that they should just go to sleep. Nevertheless, his first reaction is shock: “Your honeypot!” he exclaims. In any event, Claire is more intrigued than disgusted, and when she climbs in bed with Jamie that night, he feels the same way.

It also raises a fascinating question: Did the Brazilian wax actually originate in Versailles? Excuse me while I do some research. Louise rolls her eyes, informing Mary and Claire that, “in Paris, a hairless mound is de rigeur.” This scene belongs with Steve Carell’s famous foray into hair-removal in the “Best On-Screen Depilatory Moments” Hall of Fame. Her houseguest, a timid English girl named Mary Hawkins, is horrified. When Louise’s legs are done, she spreads them.

Louise has a pet monkey, a sharp tongue, and a man whose job - nay, whose calling - it is to wax her, not minding as she shrieks and smacks him throughout. While Jamie has his fun with the lads, Claire chills with the ladies, specifically the hilarious Louise de Rohan. And before Charles goes off to sample the pleasures of the house, Jamie has the good sense to put him in a better mood by kissing his ring like a loyal subject. Sadly, Jamie does not seem to take Charles’s advice, and though Charles doesn’t take Jamie’s either, he also doesn’t seem to bear him any ill will. “They never allow their exquisite manners to interfere with their baser instincts.” Then, when the dildos are circulating for sale (or rent!), Charles adds, “If I had a wife, I’d buy all three. “They’re so wonderfully vulgar,” he says of the French. While their husbands are away.Ĭharles, whose mood is much improved by the novelty of this, fires off two of the best lines of the night. But Jamie lucks out: The madame in charge of the establishment puts on a charming little floorshow about wives that culminates in the presentation of three ornate dildos. So he is displeased when, instead of serving up flattery, Jamie offers only hard-sounding truths. Charles claims he doesn’t merely want to be told what he wants to hear, because he already knows enough sycophants, but like everyone in history who has ever said that, he doesn’t actually mean it.

Jamie meets Charles in a brothel, with the reliably dour and skeptical Murtagh in tow, to discuss the Scottish clans’ readiness for battle. If that won’t work - if, for example, the prince believes that God is on his side, no matter what - then their mission becomes to cut the purse strings. Claire and Jamie need to befriend him, gain his trust, and then, if possible, convince him not to pursue what Claire knows will be a disastrous war with the English. “Bonnie Prince Charlie,” the Catholic monarch in exile whose supposedly rightful claim to the throne the Jacobites support. Still, both are willing to try - for their own reasons, of course.

Women are intended to be ornamental, so Claire’s self-sufficiency drives her maid to nearly to tears. Dueling is illegal, so Jamie and Murtagh’s swordplay on the lawns is a gawk-worthy spectacle. Claire and Jamie are now in 1745 Paris, an equally lush and louche setting, where they try to fit in with the overdressed, oversexed aristocrats whose excesses will, soon enough, inspire one of history’s bloodiest revolutions.Īs we might expect, neither is quite comfortable. After a sputtering start to the season, “Not In Scotland Anymore” delivers a buffet of everything that makes Outlander delightful: Romance, violence, intrigue, eye-popping costumes, and smart, quippy dialogue. Claire Sermonne as Louise de Rohan, Rosie Day as Mary Hawkins.

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