Continuing from my last review of this series and upon watching the entire first season, I am still comfortable a 7 and feel it is generous.

While the first 3 episodes were slightly confusing, the 4th did clarify the jumping from not only character to character but also point in time.

That being said, I am pleased to see that they kept to the books and stories rather closely and made only some changes but kept most.

However coming back to my original gripe over the casting, I still stand firm by calling much of the lead characters the wrong casting choices. Henry Caville is still fine and does Geralds voice well, he works and is the only solid if not passable character of the 3 primaries. Ciri (Freya Allan ) which wasnt my first choice works wel enough for Cirilla, but Anya Chalotra character (Yennefer) is totally the wrong choice. She is not a convincing Yennefer and her character isn't as striking, dominating or dominating as was implied in the original books and especially the Witcher 3 game.

Anya Chalotra (and I have no personal issue with her) just does not fit this particular role well enough, she comes across as a girl and not a mature (not old) woman.

Same can be said for Anna Shaffer's character (Triss) and her casting as far appearances go and maturity also are not on par with the impression given to me in the books nor the 3rd game. Both these woman come accros as goofy girls more than serious, very intelligent, even conniving characters that are portrayed as in the games especially.

The acting of these primaries (and I can include Shaffer) don't do the series, story and especially the feeling instilled by the game any justice. Caville and even Joey Batey (Jaskier) are much more believable and consistent.

These casting choices mentioned are my primary issue, secondly the budget is showing, the CGI and costumes of monsters especially still leave something to be desired, its not horrible but its not great either.

Still the story is good and the fighting sequences (primarily sword fighting) is actually rather good also. The show is weird in this that sometimes I got glimpses of really good moments, acting, effects all coming together in a moment that made it really good, but it never was consistently so.

Still for a series based mostly on a game and the forever impressions that those games made, its not bad at all and well worth watching.

For those who never played the games especially the last game The Witcher 3, I can only recommend you take up the challenge and play it, the story alone is magnificent and will keep you hooked till its completion.