It starts off quite nicely and sets an immersive sort of Dungeons & Dragons-y tone that should appeal to many a fantasy fan. Unfortunately, the more episodes we get into, the more flaws start to pop up. It's really difficult to keep track of the main plot, because the show jumps erratically back and forth in time a lot, sometimes entire decades at a time it seems, but makes no effort to inform the viewers of when a particular event happens. Keeping tabs on the timeline becomes an even harder proposition because the characters are seemingly incapable of aging, so two consecutive scenes may be set 15-20 years apart, but there's nothing to visually help the viewer understand it. Not to mention that all but one - Yennefer the mage - keep the exact same clothes through the years. The authors also make the questionable decision to mix monster-of-the-week episodes in-between the ones about the main plot, the way "X Files" used to do, but given the short number of episodes here, everything simply gets even more confusing.

All in all, it's a somewhat entertaining show, but most of the characters are poorly outlined and their personalities and goals remain difficult to comprehend throughout the episodes. I never read the source material, so even after watching the entire first season, I still had no idea why anyone behaved the way they did, or why I should care about them.