This critic text is only about season 1

Andrzej Sapkowski wrote in 1990 "A lesser evil" giving birth to Geralt of Rivia. He then wrote a series of short stories about him making some twists about fairy tales or folklore creatures and setting them in his dark fantasy universe. Then he wrote his epic pentalogy of the "rescue of Ciri" saga following some of the plot developed in his previous short stories.

I didn't expect the series to be good but boy I was wrong. After all the buzz about the "political casting" of a multicultural cast and the precedents of Netflix doing some horrendous work in some adaptations, I was very cautious about this series. And I'm still not ok with some of the casting selection like Merigold Triss among others but generally, the cast is astounding. And they did the most important thing right: the characterization of Geralt of Rivia.

This is a character ridden story and the character of Geralt is one hell of a characterization. I liked the leaked photos of Henry Cavil but more than physically he is the character made life and this was a blessing. Yennefer and Ciri are pretty good (we'll see in the future) and some of the secondaries like Cahir and Renfri are really well done.

The tone, the setting, the strange chronically order and the language is like I imagined it more or less (because I'm not a native english reader and the material was well adapted in Spanish to fit the "redneck" language in some characters among other things) but the way they adapted the short stories: "the witcher", "the lesser evil", "a question of price" and others is astounding and perfectly executed.

I would really like to see adapted all the short stories like the doppelganger one among others but I understand the need to adapt this material as a prequel to the "Ciri saga" and I also understand the necessary adaptations to the series format which has been done pretty well. The effects, the makeup, the costumes are really well done (well maybe not the nilfgaard armor).

I hope the viewers enjoy this saga as I did and they are not anoyed with the weird timeline. It is the only thing that I can see as a impediment to truly enjoy it.

I devoured the series as I did with the books and I felt hooked again on them.

I can only hope that the adaptation follows with this level and that they continue this good work.