I would give the show 6/10 if not for the complete lack of respect for the source material. The production was used as a training for inexperienced filmmakers and a career kickstarter for inexperienced actors. It lacks coherence with its sudden time-line jumps which were confusing even to people familiar with the witcher games or books. The lighting and visual quality of the settings is inconsistent as well - some scenes were well lighted ad looked great while other (especially the Brokilon Forrest with those cheap and disgusting lights that made it look like an old scifi TV show) looked just abysmal. Some costumes like Geralt's outfit were satisfactory while other costumes were reminiscent of some cheap halloween costumes like the clothes elves were wearing. And above all that, there's the disgusting modern message being all this. Instead of making the show deep and meaningful, with actual historical references that were present in the books, they went with boring and unnecessary cultural appropriation. Nilfgaard with their disgusting armors is supposed to represent male patriarchy and the show, especially the first episodes are filled with blatant and disgusting fallic symbolics that only a sick mind could possibly consider appropriate for this production. Fortunately as the show developed I saw less of it so I hope the next season will be way more true to the climate and the symbolics of the source material. I also hope to see some Slavic culture references which are what differentiates the books from other fantasy stories. I feel like stripping the show of the traditional Slavic references while at the same time adding unnecessary characters and changing the looks of the existing ones only for the sake of cultural appropriation is quite a hypocrisy.