#THE WITCHER 2 REVIEW SERIES#

#THE WITCHER 2 REVIEW SERIES#

There are a couple of episodic stories on The Witcher season 2, but the Netflix series gets more and more serialised as it goes on. Netflix provided critics access to six out of eight episodes from the second season. The Witcher season 2 is better at getting your attention, and then retaining it - at least for the first six hours. With its disjointed episodic tales, the first season essentially lost you as an audience member. Unlike the lacklustre first season that exhibited growing pains, the second season of the Henry Cavill-led Netflix fantasy series has a stronger handle on what it wants to be. The Witcher season 2 - streaming Friday 1:30pm IST on Netflix - is surer of itself. The last episode ends in the obligatory almighty twist and while waiting for the next season and more of the witcher’s world, one can also wait forīlood Origin, a prequel set 1200 years before the events of The eight episodes storm by in an elegantly-put together parade of top-notch action, sets, CGI and costume.

The hunting and persecution of elves brings about uncomfortable memories of the oppression of anyone who is perceived to be the Other in terms of race, religion or sexuality. There are different factions looking for Ciri, who might be the One-to save or destroy the world. Jaskier (Joey Batey), the travelling bard who sings of the witcher’s adventures, has chosen a Rock sound for season 2, and is as welcome as ever.Ĭahir (Eamon Farren), who led the attack on Cintra, is spearheading the hunt for Ciri, while Dara (Wilson Mbomio), an elven refugee boy who initially helped Ciri, might be having second thoughts of his alliances. Other mages include Tissaia (MyAnna Buring), Yennefer’s mentor Triss (Anna Shaffer), who Geralt invites to Kaer Morhen to help with Ciri’s training and Yennefer’s friend, historian Istredd (Royce Pierreson). Khayisa), a mage aligned with the Nilfgaardians who invaded Cintra and the elven sorceress Francesca (Mecia Simson), realise they have similar visions of the Deathless Mother. Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), a powerful sorceress, who paid a terrible price for her power Fringilla (Mimî M. Uneasy alliances are formed even as power shifts between elves, mages and humans. By claiming the Law of Surprise, Geralt and his Child Surprise, Ciri, are bound to each other. When Geralt saved Duny’s (Bart Edwards) life, neither knew that Princess Pavetta (Gaia Mondadori) was carrying Duny’s child. The Child Surprise comes from the age-old tradition of the Law of Surprise where a person who has saved another’s life can claim something the other does not know they possess.

Storyline: The Witcher, Princess Ciri, and Yennefer follow their intertwined destinies.

Khayisa, Anna Shaffer, Royce Pierreson, Wilson Mbomio, Mahesh Jadu, Tom Canton, Mecia Simson, Kim Bodnia

Starring: Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Joey Batey, Eamon Farren, MyAnna Buring, Mimî M.

Vesemir, (Kim Bodnia), Geralt’s mentor, welcomes the two as do the other witchers wintering at Kaer Morhen. Geralt decides to take his Child Surprise, Princess Ciri (Freya Allan) of Cintra, to Kaer Morhen, a fortress where witchers train and rest, in a bid to keep her safe. Season two begins with the victory of the northern kingdoms in the battle of Sodden. While he does not soak in many hot tubs (more is the pity) alongside willing beauties, with his white hair and animal pupils, he looks like he can take on any awful creature from the bruxa and leshy to the myriapod.Īnd then he has these broad shoulders that you know could comfortably carry the weight of the world and then some on it, and a mouth that could smile gently, sadly, nastily or kiss your troubles away, depending on the situation. Henry Cavill is spot on as the world-weary, morally riven monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia. The superior sophomore season hits its stride and sweeps us along with its thrilling battles, political intrigue, doomed loves, disgusting beasties and young hearts. There is a version of the Beauty-and-the-Beast story in the first episode and the hut of the Deathless Mother reminds one of Baba Yaga from Slavic fairy tales (no, not John Wick).Īlso Read | Get ‘First Day First Show’, our weekly newsletter from the world of cinema, in your inbox. And lo and behold! Season 2, based on ‘A Grain of Truth’ fromīlood of Elves, the 1994 sequel, and the beginning of The Last Wish, the inspiration for the show. The Witcher, based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy book series, this reviewer had wished for a revisionist look at fairy tales like in the book

The witcher 2 review