TVLine's Performer Of The Week: Hermione Corfield

THE PERFORMER | Hermione Corfield

THE SHOW | "Outlander: Blood of My Blood"

THE EPISODE | "Remembrance Day" (September 18, 2026)

THE PERFORMANCE | By the time Julia made tea in the Castle Leathers kitchen in the "Outlander: Blood of My Blood" Season 2 premiere, just about every aspect of her day had gone tragically wrong. The poor woman's agony could no longer be contained, and her pain poured out — along with a fundamental truth — in a gorgeous performance by Hermione Corfield.

Julia was truly alone once more in the 1700s, and Corfield let the full weight of that awful reality push Julia to her breaking point. With her husband vanished through the stones and an infant son to protect, how was she to go on? Corfield abandoned Julia's last vestiges of strength and full-body sobbed so strongly that Davina couldn't help but try to comfort her.

Corfield played her side of the ensuing conversation as though all of Julia's hope was lost, so what did anything matter anymore anyway? Her portrayal felt so real, with Julia's grief coming in waves interspersed with moments of clearheaded relief (when she finally admitted to Davina that she was from another time) and even a wisp or two of humor (when the ladies thought back on all the times Davina had questioned her new mistress' "rare and remarkable" ways).

But when Julia realized that she'd soon miss her young daughter's sixth birthday, we were taken with how naturally (and devastatingly) Corfield slipped deeper into Julia's despair. We ached along with her, thanks to Corfield's masterful choices in a tough scene. — Kimberly Roots

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