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The Witcher (2019 - )


Long have we waited... To be a little bit disappointed because expectations were so high. I won't toss any coin to this Witcher but I'll for sure continue watching it. 

Series Review: The Witcher (2019 - )

The world-building of a masterpiece... but not explained enough

First of all, I never read the books or played the games. So I'm not familiar with The Witcher universe and all I know about it comes from talking to friends who played The Witcher 3, and having played some Gwent myself.

I binge watched the whole first season in one day and these are my thoughts on it.
The impression I have is that the series was made for those who were already fans of the franchise, disregarding everyone else.
There was no acceptable presentation to the world, no explanation for politics or geography, the races and magic habilities. As an example, we see the Witcher Gerald (Henry Cavill) constantly taking potions which the effects are never even mentioned.

The pacing is also really weird, very fast and without much depth. It seems that they rushed the story and presentation of the characters to have a battle scene in every episode. That led to forced relationships and characters with no soul and no apparent weight or motivation in their actions.
The constant time jumps made the plot unnecessarily complicated and did not offer real development of the characters. I didn't even understand that we were following different timelines until episode 3. But that's not even the main problem for me. The biggest complaint I have about the chronological development of the story is that sometimes between each episode several years went by but the characters were completely the same, there was no development or maturation, nothing!

The Witcher: Too much Destiny

There's also too much recycled dialogues, especially about destiny, and I hate that.

What's good? Henry Cavill!

Henry Cavill is by far the best part  about this series, really good performance as the main character. Some of the supporting cast didn't look that great though. I don't know if it was really the actors fault or the writing but as I mentioned before a lot of the characters lacked depht and personality. I realy disliked Queen Calanthe (Jodhi May) and Jaskier (Joey Batey). Although the later has been aclaimed by the critics as a good representation of the bard I find him very anoying and don't think his relationship with Gerald makes any sense the way it was portrayed.  

Also the show has obviously great production value and the fight choreographies are awesome. Henry Cavill looked amazing every time he used his sword.

The Witcher (2019 - ) Series Review

So to sum all up, The Witcher was entertaining but left me a little disappointed because my expectations were very high. I'm still very hyped for next season and hopeful that it can get better. 

Rating 6/10 ⭐

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