I'm embarrassed to give this a "6" but I actually enjoyed this show as a guilty pleasure and liked it far more than Rings of Power or Wheel of Time. The action and events move at a very fast clip and I was never bored watching it, it didn't take itself too seriously.
Now for the bad: the storyline and plot are dumpster fire level terrible and at times make no sense. There is very little effort to world-build and quite frankly Netflix should fire the showrunners and writers for this series. The CGI is atrocious and much of the dialogue is not creative and bland. I have no idea why they would market this as The Witcher and the reception would have been so much better if they gave it a generic fantasy title.
Despite the other reviewers I actually thought the casting and acting was solid, these folks played a bad hand well with the junk script they were given.
All that said, for some reason I still enjoyed this as mindless fantasy fast paced action mind-candy which I have a soft spot for and is hard to come by.
Finally, Michelle Yeoh really needs to have a discussion with her agent over how she ended up in this show; she is far too great an actress to end up in this series.
Now for the bad: the storyline and plot are dumpster fire level terrible and at times make no sense. There is very little effort to world-build and quite frankly Netflix should fire the showrunners and writers for this series. The CGI is atrocious and much of the dialogue is not creative and bland. I have no idea why they would market this as The Witcher and the reception would have been so much better if they gave it a generic fantasy title.
Despite the other reviewers I actually thought the casting and acting was solid, these folks played a bad hand well with the junk script they were given.
All that said, for some reason I still enjoyed this as mindless fantasy fast paced action mind-candy which I have a soft spot for and is hard to come by.
Finally, Michelle Yeoh really needs to have a discussion with her agent over how she ended up in this show; she is far too great an actress to end up in this series.