You can really tell there were people behind this series who had passion and talent and truly strived to make something excellent. You can also tell actors for Geralt and Ciri were really into it and giving top tier performances. Many of the side characters were also quite impressive for a TV series like this. This series truly would have been a masterpiece, which is quite a feat considering how often video game adaptations fail so miserably. Unfortunately ... woke casting ruined the series. First they picked horrendously inappropriate actresses for Yennifer and Tess - two very important and central characters. The actresses were talented nothing against them but were just not a fit at ALL here - it's jarring. Secondly the many characters who were clearly from "another continent" were far too prominent. Maybe if casting had at least tried to be subtle and make things gel with the game world and story it wouldn't have been so bad but it's like they didn't even bother trying ... so large percentages of nearly every episode have character/scenes that just feel forced and awkward. Obviously in this day and age it's not a shock to see casting ruin things like this ... but it is quite sad to see a game world so many of us love get so mutilated like this. What a waste.