So, I have seen Game of a thrones. I've read the books and know a bit about that world. I know absolutely nothing of The Witcher. I have the games but never played them, and I was recommended the books but never got around to them. So I'd like to think that I had zero expectations of what to expect. That being said anyone who compares GoT to the Witcher is being ridiculous. Sure they have magic, dragons, and knights in common but that's about as far as commonalities go. You'd have better luck trying to compare The Witcher to Dungeons and Dragons as far as the mythos goes. The magic/fantasy aspect is alive and well in The Witcher with it being a major focal point the world. They also doesn't shy from letting you know that, yes these things exist and yes we're going to show it off. Counter to GoT which is more about the politics of governing kingdoms the two couldn't honestly be any more different.

Mainly this show follows one character and has supporting characters that kind of have their own little story arcs but eventually fold into and with the main character's story. There are some episode that fill in some details of the supporting characters, which is nice but can be a little confusing in the timeline. Which leads me to my only real complaint, and not even so much the concept but the execution of it. The show for at least the first few episodes jumps between current events and events in the past. My issue is that they don't really indicate wether what you're watching is in the past or current. More so they do it in a manner where it tends to blur so you can't really tell if what is happening is present or past. At least for someone who has no reference from any of the source material. You can piece it together, it's not brain busting but there's no real point to making the viewer guess when events have taken place. There is no big reveal or some kind of revelation or epiphany that happens once you figured what transpired in the past. You're just like, "Oh, ok so that happened in the past, cool." And really this could all easily be fixed with a caption saying "x time ago" for those segments. Again I'm not bashing on the idea, it just wasn't done very well.

As far as acting goes I think all the main players do very well in their perspective roles. The story isn't hard to follow but I think could use a little more substance. But hopefully that's where season 2 kicks in. The special effects are done fairly well. I think the only thing that looked off to me was one of the dragons but that may be my issues with the design of it. The fight sequences, although kind of scarce are done very well and fast paced. It also has plenty of gore but not over done. More nudity than sex scenes but that's also not a lot. Let me say that for the sex/nudes scenes it's either feast or famine per episode. You'll either get a bunch of it in an episode or very little.

Overall it's worth checking out if you're into fantasy things like D&D or Lord of The Rings.