THE WITCHER SEASON 1 REVIEW

Finally finished watching all eight episodes of the first season, and I thought generally it ended up sort of mixed. Around half the episodes were really, really, really good, as in so incredibly awesome it will nearly bring you to tears how good they were.

These are episodes 2, 3, 4 and 6. However, the other half were sort of just okay, not really that bad but definitely not great also, with some plot holes here and there and generally just not as convincing. These are episodes 1, 5, 7 and 8.

The series is being compared to Game of Thrones (GoT), but not exactly IMHO. In GoT, the Fantasy aspect was very much just in the background, with the Power Plays and Intrigues being at the forefront.

In The Witcher, that is sort of reversed, with the Fantasy aspect very much in the forefront although still leaving some room for the human aspect also to be told.

My biggest gripe is that on some episodes, the dialogue was sometimes hard to follow, with the Actors eating the words or just not very clear to hear. With Netflix I am able to replay and turn on the captions, but its likely not many will be as patient as me.

Anyway I am hoping for a more consistently great series next season, in the meantime the series for now is pretty good, if only for those amazing four episodes.