The first five stars are indicative towards the first three or four episodes of the series since they seemed original and are in earnest efforts towards creativity in their execution. They hit well, matched the atmosphere and style of The Witcher, and headed towards a new yet still true telling Of The White Wolf of Rivia . The lacking other stars , well... I'm sure you can guess the rest.... I have beaten the games and read the book series. I came at this show mitigating all bias and all assumptions. Yet this still falls flat.

This show falls into the same spectrum of all other Netflix shows. Play your best hand first, extend four or five other weaker hands throughout multiple episodes just to try and get an audience to feel trapped and continue to watch. As someone who admits towards total appreciation of the monumental story telling of both the game and the books, this is a total blunder. This isn't even a call to S*** on this tv series, it's a call to crap on all other Netflix titles. For as long as I've searched, Netflix seems to take every chance to butcher the great aspects of what they can do, and chop it up in a fashion in order to be lazy and pleasing to an EXTREMELY simple audience.

Daredevil, The Punisher, other titles and now this one.... They all have one thing in common; sloppy writing.

It is truly horrid to see it go down for a title so beloved as The Witcher. I could get behind the first few episodes and extend my imagination to where they were taking me. Yet just as always with titles as of late, the half way point comes and you can evidently see that whoever makes these shows felt rushed. And with that, the artistry and effort dies, and so does an attempt at making something truly magnificent.

Stop appealing to stupid people. Stop rushing and trying to please everyone. Go back to making stuff for people who can think. Better yet, make the stupid people think. Plots that are openly and clearly expressed to the audience are not good plots, especially in a visual context such as this. We have eyes, we have brains. It's time directors start remembering that once again.