Netflix's much talked-about new mediocre series is based on the Polish fantasy books Wiedzmin (Witcher in English) by Andrej Sapkowski. Andrej may be a very good writer, but he's not much of a business mind, because in 2007 he sold the rights to his books for a song to CD PROJECT RED, who took it upon themselves to create The Witcher game series. He never asked for a percentage of sales, believing the games would go bust. 13 years later and 40,000,000 sales later, he decided not to make the same mistake with Netflix, though he jokingly stated that his only involvement with the production of the series was to stop Ed Sheeran from singing in it (a little jab at his friend George R. R. Martin). Sapkowski has previously stated that a video game can't tell a story in a nice way. Ironically, the Witcher video games, and especially the masterful 3rd installment, which has collected every award there is and is considered one of the best games of all time, convey the mood of the books far better than the series does. Let's start with the basics. The Witcher is NOT the new Game Of Thrones. It doesn't need to be and it shouldn't be. Nothing can be Game of Thrones anyway, because as the last few seasons have proven, even Game of thrones itself can't be Game of Thrones. The original material (Andrej Sapkowski's books) is a far cry from Martin's. Although these deal with adult and difficult topics such as the politics of kingdoms, racism towards non-human races, sex, drugs, etc. They are much more based on the myths and legends of Eastern Europe, unlike A Song Of Ice And Fire, which is a mix of medieval history with a few fantasy elements.

The dialogues in this show are so cliché that half the time one can fill them in by oneself, but they are said in such a way that the impression is given that what is said is very heavy and important. We're talking about a level of "The evil is so bad..." pause, dramatic music, looking at the camera "...I hate it!" What's wrong with that? You might tell me, fun for the whole family, just a nice fun little script. No, no, no, no, my dear friends. The dialogue may be aimed at three-year-olds, the way the overall story is given is almost exclusively aimed at those who have read all the books, since the writers of the series, for some strange reason, decide to mix different timelines and tell a story that is crafted and structured from Geralt's perspective, split into three different P. O. V. Characters. That worked in GoT but GoT was written that way. In the Witcher it's an endless mess that makes it difficult even for those who already know the events from the books and games.

The series, which interweaves several stories from the early Wiedzmin books, learns nothing from the fiasco of the last few seasons of GoT and decides to throw out all the adult and cool elements to present a much more fluffy, watered down and superficial version of the story. I feel that after the first season the show is not enjoyable to watch anymore. Of course it has some good elements like the acting and directing but I'm not a critic to write a balanced analysis of the show, I'm just a guy who whines on the internet about the evils of shows and movies, only to always conclude that THE BOOK (or the game in this case) IS BETTER.