As a fan of the Witcher 3 game (played it 3 times with the expantions) i must say that without reading the books or playing at least one of the game you cant understand the show and thats a poor way to write a show. Take Lord of The Ring for example , i saw the movies without reading the books and i still manged to understand every detail of the LOTR universe, but with The Witcher ,even though i played Wild Hunt i still found myself google past lores to see if i understood some scenes correctly. this is a major indicator of poor writing. What LOTR Followship of The Ring manged to do in 3 and a half hours, The Witcher failed to do in 8 hours. Besides the lack of a good world-building, the dialog were pathetic and childish. The dialogues were so pathetic that the web is filled with memes quoting Gerald's "hmmm" and " destiny....." (i've cringed every time i heard that word). And another thing, the whole idea of The Witchers games and books is to emphasize the choices Gerald is confront with while trying to navigate between whats right and whats wrong and to exprience the outcome of those choices, this idea is totally undermined by the muilty-timelines script as you immediately see whats lays ahead. The only reason for the gap in ratings between fans and critics is that the fans of the books and games, the same as I, eager to see the world of the witcher comes to live, while the criticis, without playing the game nor reading the books, stay objective...

I gave it 6/10 and it's closer to a 5 then a 7. peace.