The Witcher Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Frustratingly Inconsistent Visuals

It's clear that Netflix has spent a pretty penny trying to make The Witcher among the most lavishly produced genre shows on TV, and though the show certainly looks visually stunning on the regular, there are also many moments where its visuals feel oddly cheap.

The cinematography at times makes fantastic use of Netflix's 4K HDR presentation, but at others scenes look garishly over-lit, and sometimes it feels as though the images haven't been correctly colour-graded to evoke the richness you'd expect.

The show also applies a bizarre aberration effect to the sides of the frame, as was a problem in the first season of Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, blurring the edges of random shots for some bizarre reason.

Meanwhile the CGI is alternately stunning and hideous: any time the show attempts to digitally replicate armies for a big-scale battle, it looks like a bad video game.

A sequence involving eels early in the season also looks laughably poor, and suggests the show could've perhaps used a little more time to cook before being released.