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Jun 29, 2023 · The Witcher Season 3 starts strong with its premiere episode, “Shaerrawedd,” and the first part ends with a fascinating showcase. Yet, unfortunately, the last three spectacles are narratively...
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79% Tomatometer 47 Reviews 19% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings The witcher Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world in which people often prove more wicked than...
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Jun 29, 2023 · Henry Cavill shines as Geralt of Rivia in the third season of Netflix's fantasy series, based on Andrzej Sapkowski's books. The season is political, complex, and sometimes deviates from the source material, but the cast and action sequences are praised by critics.
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By Jarrod Jones
Updated: Jun 29, 2023 7:05 am
Posted: Jun 29, 2023 7:01 am
The Witcher can swing a sword with the best of fantasy TV, but its third season sure makes the series' monster-slaying fun feel like work. Netflix's thoughtful and frequently exciting adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher novels naturally comes packing all the baggage and courtly intrigue of its previous seasons. And while this has never been a show to hold the hands of its viewers, even seasoned watchers might be hard-pressed to keep up with this season's knottier twists and even more bloated character roster – to the point that they might find themselves yawning through frequent detours into clunky plot development chit-chat just to get to the fun stuff. Still, whenever Henry Cavill knocks back an airplane bottle of potion and starts slicing up an especially heinous-looking monster – and this season boasts one or two so far – it's clear The Witcher still knows how to rock. Season 3 is bigger and more confident than ever, and it needs to be.
With so much at stake in its world and season 2 making sure we didn't forget about the more apocalyptic threats lurking further down the line (The Wild Hunt; I'm talking about The Wild Hunt), The Witcher has quite a lot of plates to keep spinning to stay as busily faithful to its source material as it's been. And as an adaptation of Sapkowski's Time of Contempt, book two in his Witcher saga, season 3 of The Witcher is unquestionably faithful. Too faithful? There's an argument for that.
Here are my two orens (that’s like cents): People talk too much in The Witcher. Or, at least, they do during the first five episodes of season 3. Life on the Continent hasn't gotten any less complicated since last we saw Geralt of Rivia (Cavill), Ciri (Freya Allan), and Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalortra), and the characters who populate this world sure do go on at length about it. Here's what I mean - without spoilers, naturally:
With a such a large cast, all this plotting and conniving leaves Cavill, Allan, and Chalortra – the trinity that holds the entire production together – just as lost in the shuffle as they've been in prior seasons. And, somehow, there are even more characters with secret ambitions than I just mentioned; most of them want to claim Ciri for at-times sinister reasons, so at least Ciri remains a topic of interest. But we haven't even gotten around to mentioning Jaskier (Joey Batey), once a series highlight, who now wears the most hideous wig and is yanked sourly from one predicament to the next so often that it's easy to forget that this mopey bard used to be fun to watch – especially whenever he flexed that beautiful voice of his.
As for Geralt and Ciri, I missed the moments they shared in the wintry outpost of Kaer Morhen last season, where the surrogate father-daughter duo bonded over monster hunting and swordplay. There's precious little of The Witcher's fun procedural elements this season – in the first “volume” of five episodes, anyway – though there is a bit of sword-slashing to enjoy in the genuinely terrific premiere episode, which spends a thrilling amount of screentime strengthening the bonds between its three leads before events tear them apart once more. They split up in Time of Contempt, too, but with chemistry as pure as Cavill, Chalortra, and Allan’s – and good luck to anyone who tries to find its equal anywhere else in The Witcher – surely even the most ardent Witcher fan wouldn’t protest a deviation from the source material?
The first five episodes of The Witcher season 3 are a great showcase for the chemistry between Henry Cavill, Anya Chalortra, and Freya Allan, but the series’ strict adherence to its source material pushes them to the side for long stretches of foggy court intrigue, prophecies, and conspiracies, which hardly matches the spectacle of watching Cavill ...
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The Witcher is back and more complex than ever, but its dry approach to courtly intrigue and prophecy stalls its few true instances of fantasy fun.
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Jul 27, 2023 · The final episodes of The Witcher season 3 are a disappointment, sidelining Henry Cavill's Geralt and failing to deliver on the promised showdown with Vilgefortz. The season ends with a whimper, setting up a new companion for Geralt and a fresh start for season 4.
Jun 29, 2023 · The Witcher Juggles Fun and Frustration In Its Shaky Third Season. Clint Worthington June 29, 2023. Tweet. It’s a weird, uncertain time for streaming; it feels like the bloom’s come off the rose a bit as audiences grow wise to building loyalty for shows that might just get canceled two or three seasons in (and/or get wiped from existence ...
Jun 29, 2023 · Henry Cavill leaves the show as Geralt of Rivia after three seasons, but not before delivering his best performance. Season 3 follows the found family of Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer as they face new enemies and challenges in a fast-paced fantasy adventure.
