The main trio (Geralt, Yen, and especially Ciri) pleasantly surprised me, but the lacklustre writing and some terrible creative choices made this season fall flat, IMO.

The show does such a disservice to the nuanced characters and rich lore of the books, and the writers have written themselves into a corner that will be difficult to retcon out of in future seasons.

I was really looking forward to this series, but was ultimately - extremely - disappointed.