Barb Oates, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Nurse Jackie recap: Season 7 starts with Jackie wanting her job back (good luck with that!)

April 12, 2015 Barb Oates

Nurse Jackie recap of Clean, Season 7, episode 1 recap (original airdate April 12, 2015) Nurse Jackie: “Clean” immediately picks up where things left off with Jackie facing the consequences of yet again some really horrible decisions (she bolted from the hospital, packed a bag full of drugs — thank you very much Eddie — was heading to the airport to go to Miami when she crashed into an ambulance). The season returns with Jackie at a holding cell at Queens Central. As she hands in all of her personal items, her necklace is the only item she hesitates to […]

Outlander Episode 10 recap: Oh wait, that’s Jamie down there

April 11, 2015 Barb Oates

Outlander Episode 10 recap: “By the Pricking of My Thumb” (original air date Saturday, April 11): When we last left Claire and Jamie they had made amends with a steamy romp in front of the crackling fire, with an amusing vocabulary review to follow. They both ended up declaring the other their master, and Jamie vowing to never raise a hand to Claire ever again. As Jamie readied himself to fetch them some food (all that sex leads to an appetite), Claire finds a wrapping of twigs and twine — very voodoo like looking, Blair Witch-style — under their bed. […]

Outlander Episode 10 preview: Caitriona Balfe calls Laoghaire a “little wench”

April 10, 2015 Barb Oates

In last week’s episode of Outlander, after Jamie, Dougal and Ned got a tongue-lashing from Colum, Jamie headed out to the creek (his secret place since he was a lad) to clear his mind, which was mainly clouded by his rift with Claire. As he skipped rocks into the stream, the sultry young Laoghaire (Nell Hudson) approached, reminding Jamie that he had promised they would speak about his surprising nuptials. While Laoghaire told Jamie it was a gallant act of him to marry Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and spare her from the British, she would have none of it: “You don’t […]

Edie Falco makes her final rounds, as Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” comes to an end

April 9, 2015 Barb Oates

While not a believer in happy endings, showrunner Clyde Phillips says he is “a believer in authentic endings,” and the final season for Nurse Jackie will be just that. The final season of Nurse Jackie begins Sunday, April 12 at 9pmET/PT on Showtime. “I am very, very pleased,” says Emmy winner Edie Falco of the final script. “I thought it was sort of exquisite. We had great writers who were very true to the character, and the other characters, and the storyline — about what the whole show was about.” The final season is filled with unrelenting consequences for Jackie. […]

Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe talk punishment, specifically Outlander Episode 9 “The Reckoning”

April 4, 2015 Barb Oates

Outlander’s back! When the first half of the season ended last September, Claire was under the capture and assault of Captain “Black Jack” Randall with a knife to her nipple when Jamie bursts through the chamber’s window and demands: “I’ll thank ye to take your hands off of my wife.” SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t watched Outlander Episode 9 “The Reckoning” (original air date Saturday, April 4) stop reading now because all of the conversation between Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe is focused around this episode, plus detailed information on the plot line will follow. Outlander Episode 9 “The Reckoning” […]

Outlander author Diana Gabaldon knows how series will end, shares her favorite characters and more

April 4, 2015 Barb Oates

We sat down with Outlander author Diana Gabaldon to discuss her book’s transition to screen, her fan base, her writing process, how the series might end and more. […]

Jon Hamm and cast discuss final episodes of Mad Men

April 1, 2015 Barb Oates

Jon Hamm remembers vividly the day when he came in to read for the role of Don Draper, a complex 1960s Madison Avenue advertising executive with a mysterious past. “It was in Santa Monica in February of 2005 or 2006,” he says. “I had to drive from Los Feliz to Santa Monica in the rain, which anyone who lives in L.A. knows that it’s a disaster to get from Santa Monica to Los Feliz in the best of conditions. … It was literally me and this 17-year-old who was in the same place to audition for a commercial. It was […]

Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe answers our 7 Questions

March 26, 2015 Barb Oates

Outlander star Caitriona Balfe credits bestselling author Diana Gabaldon for the series’ large fan base, but she’s far too modest to admit that fans are just as obsessed with her and her costar Sam Heughan, who bring the beloved characters of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser to life. Outlander will return for the second half of Season 1 beginning Saturday, April 4. In the new episodes Claire’s “beginning to realize how dangerous the world that she’s in now is. We’ll see her learn, she’ll definitely learn from these experiences,” Balfe tells. In a continuation from our earlier interview, the delightful […]

Preview: CW’s iZombie is charmingly entertaining

March 13, 2015 Barb Oates

The phrase “You are who you eat” defines Liv Moore (Rose McIver), a 25-year-old former medical student engaged to be married who unexpectedly turns into a zombie, transforming her into one of the newest members of the undead in The CW’s iZombie premiering Tuesday, March 17 9pmET. In order to survive, Liv takes a job at a local morgue, which offers a bottomless buffet of brains that help sustain her. Once Liv consumes a brain, she begins to see visions of that person’s cause of death and takes on some of their characteristics (from speaking Romanian to some serious ass-kicking […]

Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe on Sam, fans, new episodes and learning French for Season 2

March 9, 2015 Barb Oates

Caitriona Balfe is stunningly beautiful. Sipping her tea she playfully talks about the second half of Season 1 of Outlander, returning to Starz on Saturday, April 4 at 9pmET. Looking far younger in person than as the head-strong Claire Randall she plays onscreen, Balfe laughs when I ask her if her character Claire is ever going to be able to listen to Jamie (costar Sam Heughan). “Nope. Never. No. She’s a very head-strong woman. We know this,” Balfe says. “I don’t think that will ever change because that’s something that he loves about her. I do think that she’s beginning […]