The Witcher (2019– )
3/10
It's a mess
16 August 2021
Filled with all kinds of stuff that doesn't make sense. A single example - Everyone who goes into the Brokilon Forest must drink of the water that makes their intentions known. Well everyone except for the one guy who if he drank of it would have expose him as a fake. Then it's kind of 'meh, nevermind'.

That kind of junk writing litters this show and keeps it from being enjoyable for anything other than watching for the plotholes to pop up. Oh, and that hedgehog princess' boyfriend guy. Sorry that whole episode was just spent with everyone in the room yelling. 'He's a freakin' hedgehog.' whenever he came on screen.

Bouncing timelines work when you let your viewers know what timeline they are watching. Just chopping the narrative up and throwing it out in a random order doesn't do anything but annoy. Westworld made use of it as a gimmick that worked for one season as kind of game for Reddit fans. Then proved that it was just annoying in season 2. The Witcher annoys with it right off the bat.

Henry Cavill shows the range that made him perfect for Superman. No one does wooden grunts like Cavill. A great drinking game would be to watch it with subtitles on and have to drink every 'Hmm' is written on the screen when they show Cavill.
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