.keeneTV reviews TheWitcher Season 2, which returns with an even stronger, more engrossing (and linear!) story that sees Ciri shine
“It’s a bit complicated,” a guard at the docks calls out to Jaskier about one of his new songs. “Took me until the fourth verse to understand there were different timelines.” That’s the kind of sly, self-aware humor thatonce again brings to its layered fantasy storytelling.
Based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels that spawned an extremely popular gaming franchise, Netflix’s series remains both fully engrossing and fully ridiculous. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Like any good bard, Hissrich understands that both parts are necessary to tell a great fantasy tale. It’s also worth noting that Season 2 is a marked improvement over that messy, if enjoyable, first season.
Starting small and expanding exponentially with each new episode, this new season sees the foundations of what we learned in the first season play out practically. In addition to Geralt’s witcher brethren, we’re introduced more fully to elven culture, the politics of Redania and Nilfgaard, the neverending backstabbing of various mage factions, and to a host of fascinating side characters who breathe new life into the show’s world and lore—not to mention some terrifying monsters.
But it is a staid Geralt, more or less resigned to his fate and laser-focused on the protection of Ciri, who remains the series’ anchor. Cavill again excels at portraying this hunky mutant fighter as tired and largely over it, but also as someone who has been around for a long time and seen some shit in his day. His expertise, not just in the realm of monsters but of men, is peppered throughout in casually nuanced ways.
What that means is that Season 2 is absolutely packed with action as well as essential world building that adds up to a show that is, once again, incredibly fun to watch and easy to become immersed in. Each of the six episodes available for review feel—in the best of ways—much longer than their runtime. So much happens among so many exponentially splintering storylines, and yet, none of them are weak links.
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