I have to start with the good news: this is a well made show. This is undeniable. - The bad news is that if fails to suck you in. I want to be fair, I did not pay much attention to it. It just played it in the background while I was doing other stuff. But I always hear. This is how I got sucked into the world of Outlander. Treating it as a soap opera on the radio. But then the conversations intrigued me to start watching. Once you get convinced about the premise of a show, you begin finding its shortcomings charming. - This did not happen with the Witcher. It feels like it tried too hard to tick all the right fantasy genre boxes and to colonise a bit of that neurogeography fans allocated to Game of Thrones. - Cool Visual effects? Tick. Interesting costumes? Tick. Dragons? Tick. Elves and dwarfs and cool superpowers? Tick. - A Soul? I am afraid not.