With such urgent concerns, how much longer will the show have time for its weirder, rangier side? The season finale was largely centered on a big battle that sets the stage for an even bigger war between Nilfgaard and everybody else, with Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer at its center. By the end of season one, you could feel the weight of politics imposing itself on the story. I’m not sure how much longer The Witcher will maintain this balancing act. He’s already lived through three “world-ending” events, and his life is the same as it ever was. In the season-two premiere, when somebody suggests that recent ominous events might be a sign of the world ending, Geralt rolls his eyes. It treats all this stuff - even the casual revelation that underwhelming young sorceresses are turned into electric eels to power a magic tower - with unwavering sincerity.įortunately, the show is also smart enough to filter most of this through the perspective of Geralt of Rivia: a cranky vagabond who, like the show’s target audience, has already seen this shit many, many times before. On the one hand, this show could hardly be more overstuffed with by-the-book fantasy trappings: magic, elves, dragons, warring kingdoms, endless chatter about fate and prophecies and chosen ones.
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The key to the show’s success is that it’s figured out how to be both at the same time.
The Witcher has always been two shows: a deeply serious fantasy drama and a deeply silly fantasy drama.
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