If you're already a fan of The Witcher universe, then yeah, totally watch this. It's a cool way of experiencing thr world anew and as much as it could be better, it could've been much worse.

Firstly, the acting is hit or miss. Most characters are serviceable, some are terrible, and a few are great. Henry Cavill, who's usually terrible, does an amazing job as the emotionally contemplative block of wood that is Geralt. Anya Chalotra is great as Yennefer as well, only being brought down by confusing character motives and bad writing.

The writing itself isnt great for the most part. In general, character motivations are usually pretty interesting but how the plot gets from A-B is sometimes convoluted and bad. And most of the time the B-C is usually complete gibberish. There were many times I thought "Why is this character doing this?"

The show also suffers from many TV-show-isms in that the music is often overused, characters are inappropriately witty, and moments are intensely melodramatic. In short, the show lacks subtedly in its story. Although as a fan of the universe, you will probably notice many cool details that let you in that the creators are definitely actual fans of The Witcher in general.

The most interesting part of the series is definitely it's overall structure. There are usually 3 plots going on at a time and learning how they all piece together was very satisfying and honestly impressive.

If the show was more subtle, coherent, and more visually stylized this could've been a great show. But to be honest, in this day and age I'm just grateful to have something that is faithful and seems to have been made some love.