What is wrong with Netflix? They launched with great shows, but are now just throwing money at pretentious and at times terrible shows. This series is just a pretentious mess. The production value is high, but the writing, the pacing, the acting is just bad. Cavill is trying to make Geralt a macho dude, which Jason Statham is just better at. It even sounds like the lines you hear him say were dubbed in post-production, like they did with Bane in The Dark Knight. The music comes in at weird times and just doesn't match what you see on screen. The first 20 minutes are so convoluted with names and events in the past, that I had no idea what the hell they were talking about. Impossible to remember all of it. Next up: a young girl, no introduction, not even a name, is beside some man and a woman knighting people, unexplained why or where they are or who they are. And this keeps going on for the rest of the first episode: scenes and characters put together without exposition. So, after 1 episode I didn't care for any character. Just rewatch the very first episode of Game of Thrones, and see how writers and directors should introduce a vast new world and characters. Then the action scenes: not impressed at all because there is no tension. There is no sense of danger. I guess the director thought: if it looks good, it is good. That is not how an action scene makes people care. It's the tension and possible danger that makes action scenes impressive to watch. The nudity: it's there, but doesn't need to be there. If you watch it, you'll know what I mean. It's like the director thought: this will make it look mature. It does the opposite. It makes it look desperate. I haven't read the books, and a show should not require me to have read the books to be interested. I played the games, and they are amazing compared to this pretentious mess. If a game can tell the story better than a show with actors, writers, directors, ... then you know they messed up. Knowing this show is already confirmed to have a second season, shows that Netflix management doesn't give a crap anymore about quality.