(As this show has stumbled on, my review and rating has been updated to keep track of the unfolding disaster. We started at an 8 - how low can we go?)

The easiest layup in the history of adaptations, and Hissrich is swinging and missing, over and over. All she had to do was to actually adapt either the books, or the games. Just show the audience what we wanted to see - the Witcher.

Season1 teased us with that, with a perfectly cast Cavill, and a very decent Yennifer and Ciri carrying the show.. But Hissrich has become determined to show us HER vision, and HER truths, and by sason 3 we're left with a tedious, plodding, muddled, age-playing, gayed-up, clownshoes mess of a show, with rapidly declining production values, comically bad costume, hair and makeup, and dinner theatre level acting from much of the supporting cast.

The worst part is that the three leads are decently cast and perfectly capable of delivering a great show, if they only had anything to work with. But the writing team loathes the source material and indeed the titular character, and they do everything to subvert or sideline and drown them in tedious side-quests, nothingburger plots, and instantly forgettable minor characters.

Even when they stick to the source - and season / book 3 is predominantly meant to be about Yennifer and Ciri - they lean into the Grrlbosses Who Are The Keys To Everything trope so hard that it becomes pure cringe.

And all we wanted was a show featuring the Witcher, doing Witchery things.