‘Outrageous’ Ending Explained: Where Do the Mitford Sisters Go Next?

Outrageous Season 1 ends with a cheeky promise that the Mitford sisters’ saga is only just starting. As the Mitford family — siblings Nancy (Bessie Carter), Pamela (Isobel Jesper Jones), Tom (Toby Regbo), Diana (Joanna Vanderham), Unity (Shannon Watson), Jessica (Zoe Brough), Deborah (Orla Hill) and parents Muv (Anna Chancellor) and Favre (James Purefoy) — descend upon their Oxford estate for one last hurrah before it’s sold, Nancy teases that the drama is just beginning.

So what could possibly be crazier than anything else we see go down in Outrageous Season 1 on BritBox?

**Spoilers for Outrageous Season 1, now streaming on BritBox**

Over the course of Outrageous Season 1, we see Diana blow up her respectable marriage to the Guinness heir to be the mistress of Britain’s leading fascist. She and sister Unity eventually become tight with Adolf Hitler, with Unity proudly penning a horrific op-ed arguing in favor of the Holocaust. Meanwhile, novelist Nancy moves on from her first (gay) love to marry an absolute cad. Jessica devotes herself to the Communist cause, vowing to run away to fight on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. Older sister Pamela cooly becomes engaged to little sister Debo’s first love. Oh, the family’s cousin, Winston Churchill, weighs in on the sisters’ politics.

So what did Nancy mean when she was teasing more to come? Are the rifts between Nancy and Diana and Unity and Jessica unsurmountable? Will there be more Outrageous on BritBox? Here’s what you need to know about how Outrageous Season 1 ends….

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How Many Episodes are in Outrageous on BritBox:

There are 6 episodes in Outrageous Season 1 on BritBox. The whole season is now streaming.

Outrageous Ending Explained: What Happens to the Mitford Sisters Next?

The Outrageous Season 1 finale sees the Mitford family on the verge of scattering for good. First, we see a heartbreaking reunion between former besties and roomies Unity and Jessica. When Outrageous began, the two sisters would play out goofy shootouts, playacting in the roles of revolutionaries. Now, they’ve picked drastically different sides in the world war yet to come. Unity shows off a real gun that Hitler has gifted her, while Decca quietly plans to runaway to the Spanish front.

“I think that was really, really difficult for me and probably for you as well, Shan,” Zoe Brough said when she and her costars visited DECIDER HQ last month. “That relationship being completely tarnished by politics. I think that moment when you show the gun…for me, I found that scene really, really, really hard.”

“One thing that’s fascinating about the family, is that at the start, we see them before they go on these dark paths, very different, unconventional roots of life,” Shannon Watson said. “Then at the end, once they’re in the midst of it, they still have that sisterly love, Even though they might not like each other anymore.”

“Like can you still love your sister even if they do these terrible things?” Brough said.

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Two other Mitford sisters dealing with the same push-and-pull are the equally once close Nancy and Diana. When Nance realizes that Diana has actually married Oswald Mosley (Joshua Sasse), she’s absolutely horrified.

“When she goes to the rally with Peter, her husband, and she sees the violence and sees Mosley in action, that’s the beginning where she cannot understand what her sister is seeing in this man,” Bessie Carter told DECIDER. “And then when her best friend is brutally injured at the hands of, albeit the police, but it was still at this rally, I think that is the point of no return [for Nancy].”

With the sisters scattered, what comes next? Nancy will eventually betray Diana during World War II, turning her into British authorities for her Nazi beliefs.

“My character, Diana ends up in prison. I really want to do that,” Vanderham said. “I was like, ‘Please, can we get to that season where she’s just completely taken down off the pedestal?’ That’s got to happen!”

Pamela and Deborah aren’t as famous for their politics, but they both do continue to have interesting lives. Modern scholars now suspect that Pamela was secretly queer, while Debo goes on to be one of the most important women in the British aristocracy.

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“Debo becomes a woman and then she has so many tragic things happening to her and her life,” Watson said.

Unity will continue to delight in being one of Hitler’s favorites and takes it very badly when Britain declares war on her favorite country, Germany. Meanwhile, Jessica will make good on her dreams of joining first love Esmond Romilly (Joseph Potter) in Spain.

“Decca goes to Spain!” Carter said. “You know, there’s so much. So hopefully none of that is spoilers because it’s all like in the internet. So if it is, I’m sorry.”

There’s apparently so much material to mine that showrunner Sarah Williams has four seasons worth of material. But will we get to see it?

Will There Be an Outrageous Season 2 on BritBox?

BritBox has yet to reveal whether or not they’re making Outrageous Season 2, but Head of Programming Jon Farrar indicated to DECIDER last month that he wants to make the decision sooner rather than later.

“We want to look at how the audience responds,” he told DECIDER. “Viewing data is gonna be a massive part of that, but it’s not everything. We want to take a holistic view of how the show is received in the market.”

“Certainly we would love to get that second series done if it is well-received.”