10 TV Scenes You Didn't Realise Were Tricking You

10. The Dead Baby Is Actually CGI - The Witcher

Any series centred around a mythical being hunting down monsters for a living was always going to boast its fair share of computer-generated hijinks over the course of its runtime.

But perhaps the most impressive use of CGI seen in Netflix's sprawling fantasy series The Witcher to date comes in the form of the subtle use of digital effects when bringing a rather tragic moment into being in Season 1.

As Yennefer attempts to keep an innocent baby alive beside the sea, the mage is left devastated at the realisation she can do nothing to save the poor child's life. She then finds herself having to bury the infant by the coast.

Instead of forging a practical dead baby dummy for the heartbreaking sequence as you may have understandably assumed, though, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich would later reveal at Comic-Con 2019 that this moment was actually brought into being via computer-generated imagery, telling fans:

"This is the first time I've seen that clip without the VFX slug across it that read ‘Make baby dead.’ For months now, it said, ‘Make baby dead.'"

And in another rather bizarre sigh of relief, Hissrich would also add "It's just really nice to see it with a dead baby."

Each to their own.