My Personal Rating - 6/10

In my opinion it's not as good as most of Witcher fanboys here claims to be. And before some people downvote this and ignores my review, I want to let you know that i am a genuine Witcher fan as well. I have read all the books, played all the games. I'm just expressing my opinion about the show and here it is.

One of the main things that i have noticed from watching the first single episode. That frustrates me is like just how rushed and disappointing The Lesser Evil short story is that i didn't even had time to develop to the characters at all. Which kind of ruined the immersion for me.

And also the way that it felt that they just really rushed through the other short stories in later episodes especially the Edge of the World, where it literally felt so bad and very far from when i have read the same story from the Books. And they seemed to have continued this trend to other short stories as well. Where they changed the approach plots points from the short stories. But with almost the same conclusion, except for Question of Price, Edge of the World. Where in my opinion they got butchered and ruined for me.

They pretty much deviated from the source books as much as they can and decided to wrote their own story that simply doesn't work as well as the books. Especially with the writers with their amateur writing quality and the very fast pacing with constant jump cuts every 10 minutes that somehow ruins this show.

Now to the positive things that i have liked from the show.

The fighting choreography was flashy but looked really good talking about the one on The Lesser Evil not the Bounds of Reason with cringy Aard Kiss.

Acting performance of Myanna Buring as Tissaia and Freya Allan as Ciri and Jodhi May as Calanthe really stands out as well. Henry Cavill as Geralt looked really good too.

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In my opinion the writing of the changed approach plot points just didn't felt really as good as the Books. But despite all those complaints still in the end even with my reasonable skeptical expectation. I have still enjoyed it a bit and i was interested to continue watching through it. And i'm interested enough to Season 2.

I give it 6/10 overall. It was not bad, but it's definitely not amazing either like most Witcher fans claims to be.

And as a Book adaptation: 2/10. They obviously didn't kept their promise of being faithful to the books at all. Like most people have claimed when some people criticize the show of being inaccurate.