As popular as many of Netflix’s original series are, few can compete with The Witcher. The fantasy series debuted in 2019, but it has already established itself as one of the streaming service’s biggest franchises. According to Netflix’s top 10 site, the first and second seasons are among the service’s most popular of all time. …
Nearly seven years after releasing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red has confirmed a new Witcher game is in development. As the developer says in a press release, The Witcher 3 won over 250 game of the year awards in 2015. As such, it’s no surprise that fans have been anxious for confirmation …
In answer to the insufferable question of whether Netflix would ever have its own Game of Thrones, and which of its original series might justify such a designation, I think we have a definitive answer. To the extent, of course, that this is an even interesting question to begin with. At this point, though, the …
Upon release, The Witcher began making waves on Netflix. Ever since Game of Thrones ended, fans of epic fantasy TV have been on a fruitless quest to find a worthy replacement. Few shows have come as close as The Witcher. According to Netflix’s new top 10 website, The Witcher’s first season was the third most …
In Netflix’s newly released anime spinoff of its popular The Witcher series — titled The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf — the narrative universe that heretofore kept Geralt of Rivia as its narrative center expands considerably. In this new 1-hour, 23-minute animated Netflix feature film from director Kwang Il Han, with a screenplay by Beau …
The Witcher is easily Netflix’s most ambitious project so far. It’s the equivalent of HBO’s Game of Thrones, although it’s only getting started. We’ve only seen the first season of The Witcher, and season 2 will launch nearly two years later. Whether the pandemic contributed to its delay or not, it doesn’t even matter. Netflix …
Netflix has a bonafide hit on its hands with The Witcher. Based on the books by Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski (which subsequently inspired the video games), The Witcher quickly became one of Netflix’s biggest original shows when it debuted in 2019. In fact, it was such a big hit that Netflix committed to turning …
The Witcher was one of the biggest Netflix original shows of 2019, and on Monday, Netflix announced that a six-part prequel series has been ordered. The Witcher: Blood Origin is a live-action show that will be set 1200 years before The Witcher season 1 and will tell the story of the first Witcher in history. …
Netflix has been rather adamant about the success of its new fantasy series The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill, which dropped its first season a little more than a month ago now — and which, according to the streamer itself, managed to pull in more viewers than the inaugural season of every other TV show it’s made. …
Some of the biggest, most blockbuster original streaming TV series that have launched in recent months have found themselves accruing fame and fandom around idiosyncracies within the shows that have gone on to eclipse the shows themselves. Think, Baby Yoda for Disney+’s The Mandalorian. And when it comes to Netflix’s The Witcher — the fantasy …
