Another ok episode.
I agree with the review on last weeks episode that they're not delivering on the same level they did for the first 5-6 series. I think shooting under covid has tampered the process. The end credits list a team of covid compliance crew so that's got to make it difficult for them.
That said there is a perfunctory hit and miss dryness to the deliver of some of the scenes. The scene with Tom Christie was just weird, and Claire's response seemed unconvincing. At least we know he's out there looming around being a potential threat.
Jamie's conscription was an interesting scene. It's hard to think of what happened to him as believable but it's exactly what happened then and could happen again.
Young Ian's scene with Rachel Hunter was one of the few scenes that had some spark to it. Izzy Meikle-Small looks to be an interesting character, although Arch Bug and his threatening words in last weeks episode put a dark shadow over anything good that might happen to Young Ian.
It's hard to tell whether it's the material, delivery or directing that is falling flat for the series at the moment. It's still watchable tv but it's not at the level it has been.
Not criticising the show but noting it could and has been better.