It started so well, the slightly lost and slightly flawed hero with a big sword, slaying monsters and saving princesses, the humorous bard and the ugly duckling sorceress that everyone knew would turn out to be a swan. That's what everyone wanted and got out of the Witcher and Henry Cavil played the part so well you almost forgot he's from a Channel Islands upper middle class family and not forged from meat in the magical land of 16th century neverwhere!

Season two happened and with it a little less slaying, a little more "plot", but still a sufficiency of monster slaughter peppered with evil mage devious doings to hold interest.

By season 3 the writers had become so addicted to the convoluted plot that absolutely no one except themselves were interested. Even Henry Geralt of Rivia Cavill himself, was so bored of the whole unnecessary and uninteresting elf human race war and deviant mage convolute subplots of Season 3, that he decided to turn off before we had a chance to fast forward through all the slow rubbish bits that brought the season to its stupefyingly boring end.

Really, by episode 2 of season 3 you are left wishing that there was a generative AI TV filter that could fast forward through every bit that did it have Geralt swinging a sword and skull cleaving his way through bad guys like a master chef on beef tomatoes.

I leave the series with mixed feelings. I'll give season 4 a go, even if Cavill won't, but I won't watch it past episode one if it continues down the path of drivel started by season 3.