The Witcher is really quite awful. The characters are badly cast (except Cahill) and the dialogue is pathetically cheesy. Even the costumes don't look right. You're constantly reminded that you're watching a TV show by all of the piss poor writing.

The bard character is particularly irritating and unlikeable. There's a lot of singing, and route one 'I'm the cooky character' jokes, delivered badly by a poorly cast actor who looks like he'd be more at home doing the Christmas nativity play at your local community centre.

The only upside is that there's some decent monsters and action scenes. If I were you I'd just fast forward to those and ignore the rest of the show.