The original books were silly but funny, fresh and modern. The videogames were... well: mainly masterfully produced videogames which set the bar for the genre.

This tv-series is a disgrace which simply proves why production companies' executives don't care about quality: because they can turn a complex, fascinating universe into an inconsistent, horribly produced, ridiculous mess... and still achieve a great success.

There are good moments in "the witcher": Yennefer is at times very sexy (and I guess girls feel the same for Geralt) and the screenplayers didn't actually ruin all the good plots Sapkowski provided. Yet the average is awful.

And here is the miracle - much worse than for "Game of Thrones": despite recognizing I'm offered a trashy soap loosely based on source material I liked, I still can't avoid watching it, just to feel bad afterwards.

Someone with a better understanding of these dynamics will one day illuminate us on what is happening here. Myself, like an addict, will go on craving and watching yet another episode as long as they will provide it.

EDIT: season 2 fully confirms my review. A disgraful trashy soap. Let's add plenty of plot holes, spice with abysmal writing out of canon, puppet characters and cheap direction et voilà: I'm free from the spell and I won't be wasting my time for S3.