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Together, they meet Nivellen, kill the monster, and seek shelter as Kaer Morhen. Will Geralt be able to protect Ciri? Will Ciri also become a Witcher like him? Will he know that Yennefer is alive, and they cross paths again? What new trouble lies ahead for everyone? Is there going to be more bloodbath with another deadly battle? The 8 long episodes give some answers.Īfter Geralt in season 1, The Witcher Season 2 focuses greatly on Ciri. To get her power back, she returns to Aretuza. On the other hand, after using the spell of fire at the Battle of Sodden, Yennefer loses her Power of Chaos. Geralt decides to train Ciri so that she can protect herself.

For the same, Geralt decides to get back to Kaer Morhen, hoping that it will keep Ciri safe.Īt Kaer Morhen, we meet Geralt’s mentor Vesemir, a character fans have been waiting to see. So his mission has now become to keep Ciri safe, no matter what. After lots of challenges, Geralt (Henry Cavill) finds Ciri in the end, and he also assumes that Yennefer is dead. The Witcher Season 2 picks up where it left us after the Battle of Sodden between the North and the Nilfgaard. And a happy festive season to you all.Netflix’s The Witcher Season 2 Review Contains No Spoilers But again, if you like this sort of thing, go nuts. I can’t bear any longer the sight of actors strolling around in aesthetically displeasing stringy wigs, which are surely the height of impracticability for any warrior, supernatural or otherwise, and make everyone look like a sub-Fabio who managed a term at Lamda before dropping out in unspecified disgrace. My own pledge, made when The Witcher and I had to part company, is that I shall from hereon dedicate myself to becoming rich and powerful enough to commission my own epic swords’n’sorcerers fantasy in which everyone has a short back and sides. Play it straight, dear scriptwriters, or don’t play it at all. This is not a good idea, as it throws into too sharp relief the limits to what Geralt and his merry band of sorceresses and proto-feminist princesses can be said to know. There are attempts at knowingness: at one point, our Henry tells someone a prophecy has to rhyme. As it’s only the first episode, one cannot think this augurs well.

It’s all the same.” That sound you hear is a thousand monkeys falling off their typing stools in exhaustion. “Evil is evil,” he informs his potential employer with an integrity this freelancer can only admire. Fortunately, Geralt is played by Henry Cavill, a juttingsome chin attached to a man and quite the largest actor working at the moment, so the contest is soon over.īut Geralt is woke as well as large, and does not warm to Streggy’s toxic masculinity. Geralt’s first is a tremendously horrible giant spider thing for which I was not at all prepared. These are mutated supernatural beings who roam the pseudo-medieval land divining the locations of monsters’ lairs and using their special powers to slay the variously fell beasts.

The witcher review series#

A Tolkienesque vibe suffuses the air, elves and dwarves are scattered with a lavish hand, and every character has 20% too many vowels or too few consonants in their name.īased on the books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski (and also known to fans of the popular video games based on the same stories), the eight-part series tells the effects-heavy tale of Geralt of Rivia, one of a rare breed of monster-hunters known as Witchers.

N ever before has Miss Jean Brodie’s famous phrase been so rightfully deployed as when I say of the new Netflix fantasy drama The Witcher that, for those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.