This is review after watching all three seasons and it is a not optimistic one.

Season one started great and have huge potential, they tried to catch short stories from first two books and make it somehow in timeline + introduce characters. As I read those some long years back, I had a chance to remember and not to get lost within the artistic craziness they performed as many of the stories they took part and just recreate it to more political tricks and stuffing. However as first season it felt good and had a nice speed, story were clicking together and many of viewers enjoy it for sure.

Pity is that from those stories they just cut off monsters, romance and clever endings like for a fable. However the feel of the Witcher universe is quite good.

Season one: 8-9/10

Second season: I would say script writers stopped to read books, follow storylines of games, and just started to invent their own content and here it is when lot of things going straight to hell. They have some points which they somehow implement but for most of the rest of time they put intrigue, politics, and really strange and stupid decisions on side of characters having nothing with books. Romance, monsters and what make Witcher so great is limited to minimum.

There are some episodes or parts which are great, and then lot of stuffing which has nothing to do with books, games etc. Is forcibly pushed into. That the main storyline is not having anything with books in this moment producers and writers probably do not mind.

Season two: 6/10

Third season: And here is the lowest of lowest thing. Monster hunting, romance, family stories and books are totally out. Script writer just got lazy and each episode is starting to be really dull, long and contain... nothing. Characters decisions are irrational (probably each of the part was written by someone else so they do not share anything with each other), storyline start to be none. 90% of whole series is only politics.

Then you have there forced fights and parts like last 3 episodes which has zero connection to books, stupid fight scenes especially the massive one when wizards and magic users are slaughtered by 20 people? (yeh budget cuts are obvious everywhere). Fifth part is so low budget it is painful to watch and finally Ciri is tapping into fire magic (in books it is in second one I think...) and whole part is just repetition of what already was told in 1st series + to show back few previous actors for no reason.

Season three: 4/10 and that's only for nostalgia.

Henry Cavill is great as a Witcher. Anya Chalotra took me a while to accept as Yennefer but on the end great too. Freya Allan as Ciri superb too.

Rest is... problematic. Some are totally different from books, some like Joey Batey are ok, but writers due to some stupid decision of equality and intrusion etc. They totally change characters and have nothing to do with books what's so ever.

I am afraid that with next season Witcher will totally die, as cast replacements, obvious quality problems, writers do not care about books at all. This all indicate Netflix tried to milk the story and failed miserably as greed and managerial decisions are more important than quality of source books, adaptation and consistency.