As someone whos finished the Witcher 3 game as well as watched all of GoT, I was quite excited for this show. In hindsight I should have lowered my expectations. At best The Witcher is average and with such a budget and material that is just not acceptable.

For starters, the story is poorly told. Events take place not just in multiple locations but across different time periods which isnt made clear until youre forced to deal with immense confusion as to why characters that perished in one episode are miraculously alive and well in a subsequent one. There is no warning or explanation for this.

One would hope with such a budget that the action scenes would be impressive but instead they are laughable as every trained knight or soldier gets to swing their weapon just once, misses or is parried, and then is felled with one counter swing. What is the point of wearing all that fancy armor if swords go through it like butter? Ridiculous both in performance and scale. Speaking of scale, dont get me started on that certain winged creature. I had to contain my laughter.

The acting is often B grade at best. Maybe its due to the terrible scripts that the actors were saddled with, or just bad casting choices, but nowhere did I see even a single brilliant performance or dialogue worthy of remembrance.

In the end this is a book and video game adaptation that just doesnt work very well and no amount of nudity will make up for its shortcomings.