The Witcher Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

Downs...

5. It's A Disappointingly Generic Fantasy Show

Making truly original content in the fantasy genre is incredibly difficult, and The Witcher is proof perfect of that.

For the vast majority of the series' eight episodes, it leans back on over-familiar genre tropes, and little effort has been made to present original stories or do anything to subvert what audiences expect from swords-and-magic fare.

Dozens of names and places are vomited at the viewer from the very first episode, most of them blurring into an unoriginal slurry amid the totally by-the-numbers overarching plot and hilariously video game-y series of quests Geralt (Henry Cavill) is sent on over the course of the series.

That's not to say it's in any way a terrible execution of these well-worn beats, but it does sometimes make the show feel a bit more dull and forgettable than you'd surely want it to be.