First of all: The show is pretty spectacular, as far as actors, sets, fighting choreography and locations are concerned. But there is one extreme problem within it - the storyline is very chaotic. I played parts of the PC games and did not read the books. It was nearly impossible for me to get all the stuff happening into the right order. Much things are not explained, for example why Gerald takes the elixirs, or what the overall political situation really is. You get no idea of the "big picture" of this world and that makes much of the stuff happening hard to understand.

And here is the main difference what makes GoT that much better: You are able to understand the whole plot even without knowing the books. Everything you need to know is explained and the straight storytelling allows you to recognize the links between events and characters.

The Witcher jumps between time zones. You see characters dying and 3 minutes later they are back on screen, because there are scenes that are close before of what you just saw. But beside these mini jumps there are also bigger ones, and without being labled or named you have no chance to get everything to the right order. This is even forced by changing actors for one character and not telling how much time lies between the events that you get to see.

Overall it is still a very cool show and I had much fun binge watching it. If the story would have been told in straight order I might have been given 8 or 9 points. But now it is just a very entertaining show, but nothing that will catch me as much as GoT did it.