There seems to be a law that if you are producing or showrunning a fantasy series and "don't get it", you revert to low-brow cheesiness and hope that will appeal to a broad audience (see Xena, to-video D&D movies, the Sword and the Sorcerer, etc). Thankfully, we've also had the first Conan the Barbarian, Jackson's LOTR trilogy and Game of Thrones as powerful exhibits that respecting the genre by playing it straight with quality can really attract the fans. Clearly, the producers of Witcher season 1 ignored this lesson. As many others have stated, Henry Cavill is about the only reason to force down this veneer-thin fantasy world. Anya Chalotra is also tolerable as the witchy Yennefer but most of the rest of the casting looks like it was done on the cheap. The bard, in particular, may be the Witcher's answer to Jar-Jar Binks. Still, you can fool some of the people some of the time and the surprising number of high fan-boy ratings and Netflix's swift greenlighting of season 2 sadly shows playing it low-brow can work. Pity, as Cavill's Witcher deserves a better vehicle.