This Game of Thrones-style series is based on the fantasy book series by Andrzej Sapkowski, it is a story of fantasy, fate, and family. Geralt of Rivia (Cavill) is a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

Created by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich for Netflix

The Witcher timeline:

Starring:

Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, The Witcher

Freya Allan as Ciri

Anya Chalotra as Yennefer

Eamon Farren as Cahir

MyAnna Buring as Tissala

Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara

Adam Levy as Mousesack

Gaia Mandadori Pavetta

Bart Edwards Duny

Summary of episode 2:

1210 Yennefer is sold to Tessaia

1210-1249 Gerald becomes “The Butcher of Blaviken”

1249 Gerald evokes “The Law of Surprise”

1263 Gerald and Ciri meet

Witcher timeline

Creatures of The Witcher

5:19 transition to story (spoilers)

The Witcher Ep. 7, “ Before a Fall”

This episode brings us back to the “present day” or 1263 a few days before the Fall of CIntra. Geralt see’s the Niflgaardian army marching toward Cintra. Sensing the danger he makes his way to Cintra to take Ciri under his protection. When he makes it to Cintra he finds Queen Calanthe less then willing to give up her only grand daughter and heir to the Cintran throne to an inhuman stranger. She first tries to kill him, then trick him, then imprison him when Geralt shows he is intent on keeping Ciri safe. We then go through the final scenes of the battle of Cintra through Geralt’s eyes as he breaks from the Dungeon and looks for Ciri. Bring long gone now, Geralt flee’s the city and continues his search.

Q- Bringing it back to the beginning. Does this do a good job of tying the two stories back together in a way that is “good”. Because I think it was creative, but do we think it was a good way to do it.

Q- Does this make sense? Or like episode 4 are we left scratching our heads again?

Yennefer travels to Nazzir in Nilfgaard where she is reunited with Istrid. They reunite somewhat momentarily before their relationship is reluctantly cut off. Then Yennefer is met by the mage Vilgefortz who asks her to come back to Aretuza to discuss the Nilfgaardian aggression. Once there, she takes a trip down memory lane before reuniting with all the mages for a council meeting to discuss supporting Cintra who has not allowed Mages for sometime. The council votes to stay out of it, but Tesseia and Vilgefortz leads a company of mages to fight Nilfgaard. This leads them to Sodden Hill where they will make their last stand.

Q- why did she return? What is she getting out of coming back to a place she seems to so thoroughly detest. Same with going to fight at Sodden Hill. Tesseia asks her to do it for her, but seriously, none of her motivations make any sense. At least not till next episode. 16:00 why is Yennefer back? Problems with time. 24:00 Geralt

Episode 8, “Much More”

32:08 Like Episode 2, this is Yennefer’s story. As they prepare for the Battle they occupy a castle sitting on the only crossing over the vast Yaruga river. Yennfer and the mages hold a vaillant defense against the Nilfaardian army and Fringilla. However, there are not enough of them and one by one they are killed or incapacitated until only Yennefer is abe to save them. She is told unleash her chaos in which she wipes out the Nilfgaardian army in a storm of fire, but then she herself disappears.

45:04 Geralt actually, and literally, takes a backseat in this episode as he is bitten by a Nekker which is deadly to humans. In and out of delirium he spends the episode having flashbacks to him as a child and being abandoned by his mother Visenya, and being adopted by Vesemir into the Witcher order. Visenya then comes to Geralt’s aid to heal his wound and saves his life. Upon coming the merchants home he has the epiphany that Ciri is in the woods. He runs out to find her and does. Geralt and CIri hug before Ciri ends the season by asking, “Who is Yennefer?”

Q- what a season! When , not if, do you think we will see Yennefer again. Do you like how she went out? Nothing like a main character dying to be ur season 1 cliffhanger.

Q- What were our observations on this final episode. Did we like it? How about the season as a whole now that we are finished.

52:00 Final reflections on season one

58:59 Teaser for our upcoming episodes: Review of the HBO series, The Outsider.