Full disclosure, I have not read the books or played the video games, so, my review is entirely about this first season of the series. I also should say that I have no problem suspending belief and thoroughly love worlds built on folklore archetypes and magic. I really enjoyed this series. With all the award garnering series coming out lately, built around reality based stories about corruption, sexual predatation and the abuse of power, I really needed to escape into fantasy, where even the anti-heros have codes they live by. I enjoy that the series draws from a canon of books where the plot and premises have already been well conceived. I thought the casting was excellent. Henry Cavill is such a beautiful man, and he broods with the best of them. Freya Allan adeptly portrayed both innocence and the cunning of survival as she inhabited Ciri. And, Anya Chalotra is stunning in her reveal. The chronology of this season is easy to untangle if you take the clue from the first episodes title (THE END'S BEGINNING). Quite simply, Ciri's timeline is the present and all the other, ageless characters' stories are excerpted from the hundred years before Ciri's present. Great Action. Great adventure. There is A LOT of nudity and gratuitous sexual content (I wish productions would trust the content of a series for their audience rather than having to fed them the crack of sex to keep their attention). I give this series an 8 (great entertainment) out of 10. {Fantasy Action Adventure}