Updated Review as of Season 3

I like to keep these reviews handy for when I want to go back and decide if I want to watch the next season or not. I am torn after watching Season 3. I think this one might have sunk the show for me, not sure I will be tuning into Season 4.

The quality of the scenes is pretty decent, the blood for most of it looks real, there is still some bad CGI happening. I liked most of the acting. I think the big problem with this season and maybe the whole show overall is the storytelling. It's boring.

There are too many stretched out episodes in this season, I loathe time travel as a tool for writing and they used it in the most boring and nonsensical way. I guess it's not really time travelling they just tell the story all out of joint then go back 4 minutes later to tell the same story with a slightly different approach with more information. I hated this episode, which was then followed by an episode of one of the characters wandering a dessert.

This is what I imagine the writers sounding like when they came up with that one "So she gets trapped in this vast dessert" "Ok then what happens" Then she wanders around, and she is wandering, and wandering" "Yup sounds good, we can add in some far away shots to show how big it is" "Yeah then we can just keep reusing those same shots over and over again" "What else happens?" "Well then she wanders some more, and then some stuff happens and she wanders" "Oh we could throw in a Unicorn!" "Uh yeah ok, so she is wandering and wandering and then the Unicorn runs away because she wandered too much" "Excellent that is a wrap!"

This sums up the feeling for the whole season for me. The writing was paper thin. They took out the thing that made the show fun to watch, The Witcher, doing Witcher things. This was more like watching Jedi Knights debate politics. No one signed up for that.

I would give this a 5.5 but there are no halves and I did enjoy Season 1 and 2.

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It took me a few episodes to get past the fact this isn't game of thrones level quality in effects but it's pretty good. I haven't played the games or read the books so this was pretty much a stand alone show. There is a lot of naked ladies and a ton of gore, some of which I found to be a bit much. There was also a couple scenes where the throat slashing seemed to be done with old cgi that had gone stale.

Will be looking forward to the next season.