Let me explain a bit.

First two episodes are so bad at explanation that I almost gave up on the whole series, but fortunately the key is in the follow up episodes. From the point of being a series, it is a bad joke in how to set up the story and environment.

It's like starting a Harry Potter series with him winning the cup, being almost killed by you know who, scene later Dumbledore kicks the bucket and then we will watch Harry to be raised by Dudley's.

Fortunately, the follow up episodes are getting better and better as the focus is more on the present events and when the plot shifts back to the past, it is much clearer to what event is that bound.

When consumed all at once, all parts with a piss breaks inbetween them, it works. It will be hard to pin point the good episodes and bad episodes as it does not work at all as standalone. But I think it is a good thing. It is kinda refreshing from the close ended episodes where you need to have some fillers that are not really adding anything to the main story.

Anya Chalotra is insanely good as Yennefer, but Henry Cavill as Geralt reminds me Boromir from LotR - "I will now say something and then growl a bit". But it works all together.