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IвЂ™m already prime and ready to jump back into this world and am kind of bummed that I have to wait until 2021 for season 2! I hope that unlike this first season, season 2 will come out in early 2021 rather than later. While it wasnвЂ™t perfect, it did excellently captured the themes of the books with much of what gamers loved about the games. Overall, The Witcher was an absolute win. YouвЂ™ll be humming, or outright singing this song for days after binging the series. From the second episode, the song Jaskier wrote to tell the tales of GeraltвЂ™s monster hunting adventures was firmly stuck in my head.

But of course the side character who will be the most remembered will have to be the amazing Joey Batey as Jaskier, the spoony bard weвЂ™ll one day know as Master Dandelion. I love that they went this route because while Geralt is the aforementioned titular Witcher, his story is so interwoven with the people he interacted withвЂ¦ primarily Yennefer and Ciri, two women who make up a dynamic of family for Geralt with the woman he loves and the woman he cares for as his own child.ДЄs for the side characters introduced, fans of the books and games will recognize when Triss Merigold (Myanna Buring) and Fringilla Vigo (Mimi Ndiweni) are introduced with the former acting as the other great love for old Geralt and the later tied to YenneferвЂ™s past. What I feel I loved the most about this season was that Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri share equal character development.

Ciri is vulnerable and shows the makings of the strong woman she will eventually become. Finally, Freya Allan as the young Princess without a kingdom absolutely nails her role. She portrays the sorceress during two distinct phases of her life, her early days as a hunchbacked woman with facial deformities who makes a sacrifice to have her body literally remade to become a beautiful sorceress. Anya Chalotra is amazing in her role as Yennefer. I can tell that he really cares about this character, he made an infinitely better Geralt of Rivia than he ever did a Superman. The casting was stellar, and Henry Cavill killed it as Geralt. I felt like Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri were equally represented in this first season. I felt the pacing was spot on and they dedicated an appropriate amount of time to each character. While IвЂ™ve heard criticism about how following the narrative was confusing, I honestly didnвЂ™t come across that.

These three characters share equal parts in the narrative of this first season, something I personally loved since IвЂ™ve always been fascinated by Yennefer and Ciri though their arcs are peppered across much of GeraltвЂ™s adventures. Princess Cirilla, tragic princess of Cintra a kingdom sacked by the power hungry Nilfgaardian Empire in an act of pure cruelty. Yennefer of Vengerberg, a beautiful sorceress with unimaginable power and control over chaos. Geralt of Rivia, the Butcher of Blaviken, a member of a mysterious sect of monster hunters who earn coin by slaying dangerous beasts and possess super human abilities thanks to forced mutation.

Of monsters and men witcher series#

While the titular Geralt of Rivia is the Witcher of this story, and is the subject of the novels and video games, this series takes an interesting approach by leading with not one, but three main protagonists who are all intrinsically linked to each other.

Of monsters and men witcher full#

A lush narrative full of fantastical beasts, harrowing adventures, political intrigue, and massive large scale battles.