I'll never understand how this is an 8.4.

After the first episode my girlfriend turned to me and asked: "What the hell was happening in that?" and I didn't know what to tell her.

I've watched 4 episodes now and I won't be continuing. I've played The Witcher 2 & 3 and even I was confused. They jump between time periods without even bothering to tell you and it makes following along with the already convoluted plot very difficult.

The dialogue is laughable and at some times embarrassing, with them switching from ye olden times English to modern speak at the drop of a hat. None of the jokes land and the characters consistently spout off cliché after cliché.

Even Geralt himself is pretty lame. I think I've only caught him using a sign (spell) about 3-4 times, and that's been his worst one. Why he hasn't used Igni (fire) once is baffling considering they added more use of signs after the first draft of the show.

His costumes are pretty bad too, he looks younger and less grizzly than his game counterpart and he's lost his cool 2 swords look and cat eyes. This all makes him look quite silly to me.

Overall very disappointing and over hyped in my opinion.