But from season 2 it's absolute garbage! Apart from Geralt and Jaskier nothing in this show is good. The plot is nonsensical, dialouges stiff, acting weak, costumes don't match the tone and setting, neither does the acting, CGI feels cheap. It's a terrible letdowns, since the show showed great promise in Season 1, even if it did stumble from time to time and had a terrible, underbudgeted finale. But Season 2 is just horrid, for some reason the showrunners abandoned Sapkowski's writing and instead wrote their own, horribly cringe'y, fanfic, that is nowhere near the level of quality of the original novels. So we get illogical character motivations, flat dialogues, unintriguing progression of events. And production values are weak as well, settings feel sterile and CGI-ish, costumes feels out of place for a gritty dark fantasy. I wonder if not knowing the original source material would help in reception, but I highly doubt it, I feel the show is just bad on its own merit.