Starz releases first trailer for ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Season 2, setting up a return to 1700s Scotland

Starz has released the first trailer for Outlander: Blood of My Blood Season 2, previewing the series’ next chapter as it moves deeper into the historical conflicts of 18th-century Scotland. The new footage frames the season around a journey back to the 1700s and the beginning of the Jacobite uprising, according to the network’s official promotional materials reported by Deadline.

The trailer indicates that Season 2 will pick up from the prequel’s established blend of time-travel drama and period storytelling, with characters facing the political and social upheaval that shaped life during the Jacobite era. In its promotional rollout, Starz positions the new season as an expansion of the franchise’s earlier groundwork, using the uprising as the central historical arc.

Deadline reported that Season 2 premieres on Friday, September 18. The outlet also said the series will release new episodes weekly on Fridays, with the run staying exclusive to Starz, indicating that subscribers will need to maintain access to the pay-TV streaming service on a staggered weekly schedule rather than getting a full-season drop at once.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood is positioned as a prequel within the wider Outlander universe, designed to explore origins and earlier events that feed into the franchise’s established history. With Season 2, Starz is again aligning the show’s narrative direction with a specific historical moment, the Jacobite uprising, as a way to provide a clear thematic through-line for the new episodes.

The Season 2 trailer also reflects the franchise’s typical emphasis on family stakes and community pressures as characters navigate the consequences of political conflict. By centering the Jacobite uprising, the series is expected to foreground not only battles and alliances but also the instability that follows when competing claims to authority collide across villages and households.

For Starz viewers, the weekly Fridays-only rollout shapes how audiences will plan viewing and discussion, and it affects how the network sequences marketing and engagement around each installment. The Season 2 timing also places the show’s return in the late-summer and early-fall window when streaming audiences typically evaluate what to watch next.

Starz has not indicated any change to the basic release cadence beyond confirming that new episodes will drop weekly on Fridays. Additional trailer footage and episode-specific summaries were not included in the report, leaving details of exact character developments and the immediate consequences of the uprising to be revealed in the forthcoming weekly episodes beginning September 18.

Season 2’s premiere on September 18 will determine whether the Jacobite uprising framing introduced in the trailer translates into an extended arc spanning the season or concentrates into a smaller set of major events. Until the first new episode airs, viewers will have to rely on the trailer’s preview of the period setting and the uprising-era tension as the clearest guide to what is coming next.