All too often with TV shows & movies we here "were not making this for the fans, we want to make something to include a wider audience". well the fans are a huge reason why things become successful so by faithfully recreating the stories you keep the fans happy & garner a wider fan base which in turn allows new fans to understand why it became so popular in the first place but by dising the original you alienate old & new fans alike I get how people become fans of a book series such as 7 to 8 year olds with "Harry Potter" or 12 to 15 year olds with "game of thrones" etc; but if the Witcher TV series is anything to go by the books/short stories must be dreadfully dull & unimaginative & I can't even guess what the age group of the fans of this can be, even so I find it hard to accept the books /short stories are as bad as this TV show. Its clear from the locations & costumes of the main characters & over abundance of extras that this has had money spent on it, but $9 million per episode is ludicrous for how dull this so called action epic is, everything about it screams 80s cheap sword & sorcery from the poor excuse for monsters to the tacky sex scenes, flash some boobs that'll make it serious TV, NOT! Unimaginative, unexciting, dull, dreary & a lack of any real depth which is the best way to describe not only this show but Henry Caville also, an actor who is always miss cast as a leading man or hero except for MI. Fallout where he was perfectly cast as the bad guy,in none of his roles does he look comfortable or of competent acting ability except for Fallout, as a hero he's a flop as the bad guy he's outstanding, he should never have been cast as "superman" but the role of the anti-hero "Black Adam" should have been his not Dwayne Johnson. The very first episode should have grabbed the audience by the throat & left them eagerly wanting more, it doesn't & it continues in this vein from episode to episode, no excitement no thrills, no point.