Caitriona Balfe Goes From A Nudecomer To A Sexy Pro In A Lengthy Sex Scene

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Outlander is officially the biggest hit in the short history of Starz. Guilty pleasure my tuckus! What could easily have been dismissed as romance novel tripe, most (including us) have found this show to be an entertaining tale of love, loss, feminism and the horrors of war, with characters we really care about. That's the thing with good, high concept shows. The weird premise (a British WWII nurse gets transported to 1743 Scotland) gets you in but the well-developed characters make you stay.

The show has also made a star out of Caitriona Balfe. Her performance as Claire Randall has been a pure delight, not to mention her hot nude scenes. This show got some criticism for gratuitous nudity, specifically an oral sex scene where Claire is pleasured by her hubby in the pilot. I wonder if people would have been upset if it were Claire giving head? 

Saturday's mid-season finale featured a long-awaited moment from the novel. Claire's arranged marriage with Jamie to quiet suspicion she's a spy for the Brits is consummated and she gets fully naked. If you want to complain about this scene being softcore porn, yell at the book's author. From what I've read, it's more graphic in the book! It's actually a sweet, awkward, funny and really sexy scene as Jamie the virgin gets it on for the first time. Don't worry, man. If she were our first, we'd be a little nervous too.

Sucks we have to wait several months just as the show was hitting its stride.