While that show also has no release date (yet), it’ll no doubt inform the growing lore of The Witcher’s show universe.Īnd alongside Netflix’s newly released synopsis for the upcoming season, Schmidt Hissrich has already confirmed a number of elements that will be part of season 3. Netflix’s third season joins a few spinoffs also in the works, including 2022’s The Witcher: Blood Origin, starring Everything Everywhere All at Once star Michelle Yeoh. Given the number of people who seek to control or kill her - including, but not limited to, the elves, Nilfgaard’s White Flame, and the council of mages - season 3 leaves them with a lot of ground to cover, and certainly can’t get here fast enough. The latest season ended on more than a few serious cliffhangers, with familial connections finally made between Geralt (Henry Cavill), Yen (Anya Charlota), and Ciri (Freya Allan), and the three of them working together to get Ciri’s powers under control. While there’s no release date for either The Witcher season 3, the franchise so far has favored December releases. Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich said the writers’ room finished scripting the third season in December 2021, and now with the cast filming the third season, new episodes could be here soon. As of April 2022, the new season has thankfully started filming. We’re waiting a little too long, though.Almost immediately after The Witcher season 2 arrived, the next stage of the Witcher release cycle started up: eagerly awaiting The Witcher season 3. It’s a between-the-wars season that works hard to keep us entertained while we wait for Big Gerry to be given something momentous to do. Careful as one must be in the Time of Covid not to be too harsh on shows that return feeling constrained and underpowered, that is how The Witcher feels, at the point where you might have expected it to widen into a grand spectacle. When it needs them for a big dust-up, The Witcher’s special effects are flawless.īut it’s mostly marking time, with Geralt barely ever driving the action as he surely should. Ciri’s coming of age also involves an obstacle course that’s like an amusing medieval version of Total Wipeout, and there are some monsters to be slain, from a vengeful tree-man to a huge winged insectoid. He’s played by Killing Eve/The Bridge star Kim Bodnia, who gives us his usual twinkly uncle with a dark side, enhanced by a ridiculous slicked-back long mullet.
Much of the season is given over to Ciri training to fight alongside Geralt, which happens while they lodge with a senior Witcher named Vesemir (as opposed to Vizimir – he’s the churlish king of the Redanians). It has to take every opportunity to have fun among quite a lot of scenes of kings, queens, generals and magicians debating the nuances of their possible next moves. A horror-tinged twist on Beauty and the Beast develops, which could happily be watched in isolation.Īfter that, though, season two bases itself largely on Sapkowski’s 1994 novel Blood of Elves and is more concerned with slow scene-setting.
He’s a raconteur who can make a roast dinner or a hot bath fall magically from the ceiling, but who struggles to find love due to his hairy, tusked face. In turn, The Witcher in its TV guise began as a monster-of-the-week show and it sticks with that for the first of the new episodes, sending Geralt and Ciri to stay in the mansion of eccentric beast-man Nivellen (Kristofer Hivju). Season one was based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s short stories, since that was initially the Witcher author’s favoured format. If all this is a distraction from The Witcher never really amounting to much, that’s not necessarily a problem. From thingummy.” Here’s Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey) as a cowardly elf! There’s Graham McTavish (Outlander) as an intimidating intelligence officer! Look out, it’s Simon Callow and Liz Carr (Silent Witness) as a pair of private investigators, poring over parchments in a book-lined hovel! The Witcher also loves to treat us to a top British character actor, the sort who makes you say: “Oh good, it’s … whatshisname. Geralt himself has a prosaic answer to Ciri’s naive suggestion that they seek refuge in a place called Skellige: “You’d be married off to the nearest Lord of Bad Breath.” “Fuck!” says Yennefer when she finds herself regaining consciousness in captivity.
Even the three main characters, much as they gravely go on about prophecies and dynasties and whatnot, can display an admirable economy of speech – which offsets the grandeur of the landscapes, the palaces and the protagonists’ voluminous capes.
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