It's a great start and I'm glad they're making more but it had a few issues that made it challenging at times.

The good: Cavill nails the role as Geralt and they manage to capture the theme of moral ambiguity from the source material. Yennifer's back story was also very well handled. There are a few monsters in season 1 and they're well-handled but not gratuitous - the show is more about the characters than monster hunting, as it should be.

The bad: The timeline jumps are pretty jarring in the first few episodes and the various factions and locations are so poorly explained that without having read the books or played the games, I think I would really have struggled to understand what was going on. These things get better as the series progresses, however. Towards the end, the various plot threads converge and it is set up for a much more cohesive season 2. Another minor complaint is that some of the voice acting is a bit 'breathy' and I had to rewind and even put subtitles on for some of the lines - an issue that could and should have been addressed with post-production editing.

Verdit: worth a watch and posied for a good season 2.