Remember Season 1, when the bromance of Geralt and Jaskier was the cherry on top?

Good times!

Season 2 flirted with modern narratives, and I thought, "A little seasoning won't hurt the stew, right?"

The first episode of season three even had me thinking, "Maybe they've nailed it this time!"

But after episode one, it's a downhill tumble - a tragic mix of character assassination and an overzealous buffet of modern narratives.

Characters like Jaskier, Dijkstra, Yen, Triss, and many others - got served a raw deal, and it's as if the show sent character depth to another realm.

I mean, if there's a character-ectomy spell, they aced it.

And the showrunners' love for modern narratives is as blatant as a bard at a funeral. It's like they swapped the monster manual for a modern sociology textbook.

The show's fixation on characters' bedroom antics overshadows, well, everything else. Should we call it "Fifty Shades of Witcher" now?

Our dear Witcher, Geralt, is relegated to the sidelines, making occasional cameos like an A-list actor who accidentally signed up for a B-movie. And then, the tragic climax - Henry Cavill leaves the show! Was it a contract dispute, or did he just get a good look at the script?

In an RPG, this would be the moment you smash the "Load Previous Save" button.

But alas, no such luck here. I'm downgrading my rating for the entire series from a perfect 10 to a woeful 1.

They came, they saw, and they butchered a franchise. Cue the sad bard music.

Farewell, Witcher. We barely knew ye.