This show started strong, but ultimately it never delivered on the promise of its first episode. What's the point of a bad-ass monster hunter if his monster hunting takes a back-seat to a truly convoluted story involving more kingdom names than I can keep track of? Each episode after the first had more and more characters introduced and it was tiring to try to figure out which ones ultimately mattered to the story. And forget about remembering anyone's name! On top of that I came into this series with maybe eighteen minutes of playtime in one of the first Witcher games several years ago, so I was very much in the dark regarding the lore of the world, and the show-runners' decision to LEAVE me there was fatally flawed IMO. Now that I have finished the first season I am left with way too many questions and no answers outside of spending hours on google doing research. And truth be told, I just don't care enough to bother. 4/10 Stars. Maybe it would be better if I was already into the franchise.