I'm being genuinely generous here, because I was so very disappointed with the turn this show took. It was just so... weird? This is my first form of encounter with The Witcher and I get that people who are familiar with the world are able to follow the confusing timelines etc, but what's the point of the show then? It's supposed to please the fans as well as introduce the world to the new audience, and that was executed rather poorly; no world building, no answers whatsoever, magic has no clear rules, plotlines are tangled in such an uneccessarily weird way (and I'm not stupid, obviously I managed to piece it together after some time but it was very tedious nonetheless), the dialogue is full of cliche lines and there's a bunch of random characters in each episode you fell zero connection to by the time the episode ends. Cavill does his best, he was a good choice and even Chalotra and Allan have done a decent jobs, but there is very little arc to any of the characters and therefore you don't feel anything for them in the end. Everything is just so... sloppy. The best episode was the third one and after, it just all went downhill to me. It's far from being terrible, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have any charisma of its own, everything is half-baked and there is just so much to work on for the second season and such a high rating baffles me. Maybe it's me, but I couldn't care less for the most of the characters. There is still so much potential but it has to be handled properly for the second season. The only proper thing is the Toss A Coin To Your Witcher which has been on my repeat for days now.