3/23/2023 0 Comments Season 2 the witcher(There’s also a sheen of topicality, with elves representing an oppressed Indigenous population.) Geralt and Ciri come off the road and hunker down in a witcher fortress where she trains to be a warrior, leading to discussions of whether she’s a savior or a destroyer. Now there are more and longer conversations filling in the history of the story’s setting, called the Continent, and of the various species who inhabit it, including elves, dwarves and humans. It feels as if, after the good times of Season 1, the series’s creator and showrunner, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, decided it was time to get serious - to start incorporating more of the elaborate mythology and terminology of Sapkowski’s books. Jaskier (Joey Batey), the traveling bard - the 13th century’s version of a fabulous cabaret star - who was responsible for much of the sniping humor is offstage in the early episodes. The third major character, the mage Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), has lost her magic and is also on the run. Picking up in the wake of the scorched-earth battle between kingdoms that ended Season 1, the show takes Geralt away from peripatetic monster-slaying for hire and puts him on a narrower path, as bodyguard and teacher to Ciri (Freya Allan), the refugee princess with mysterious powers. Or maybe people were just drawn in by the show’s charms, of which it had several: a playful sense of humor (an area in which it scored quite a bit higher than “Game of Thrones”) a refreshingly straightforward episodic structure and an amusing, minimalist performance by Henry Cavill as the witcher, Geralt, a mutant mercenary charged with hunting down all manner of C.G.I. Maybe the audience for sprawling medieval fantasy, even when it’s medium grade, is simply that large. That’s impressive, and a little surprising, for a “Game of Thrones”-on-a-budget sword-and-sorcery adventure whose visual and dramatic quality ranged from “hey, not bad” to “.” Maybe it was a testament to the popularity of the source material, a cycle of stories and novels by the Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski that has also inspired a successful video-game franchise. But Season 1 of “The Witcher” is still hanging in there, comfortably in fifth place. Then Covid-19 set in, and two years passed without more “Witcher.” A few shows, notably “Squid Game,” overtook it in the all-time Netflix rankings. In late 2019, it was by some measures the most popular television show in the world, and it was Netflix’s second most-viewed TV debut to that point. Before “Squid Game,” before “Bridgerton,” there was “The Witcher.”
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