• Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 25, 2022
Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 15
  2. Negative: 3 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Niv M. Sultan
    Dec 12, 2022
    38
    The dazzling depiction of the event ["conjunction of the spheres"] conveys its unfathomable scale and implications, its profound reorientation of space and time. But both the upheaval and Blood Origin itself end shortly after they begin. Having, at last, built up a head of steam, the series ends in a fizzle.
  2. Reviewed by: Therese Lacson
    Dec 12, 2022
    33
    Ultimately, your enjoyment of Blood Origin will depend on how invested you are in The Witcher universe, and how convinced you are by the slapdash storylines it presents.
  3. Reviewed by: Nick Schager
    Jan 3, 2023
    30
    The show’s derivativeness falls somewhere between depressing and embarrassing.
User Score
1.4

Overwhelming dislike- based on 180 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 180
  1. Dec 25, 2022
    0
    Jesus wept...god awful. Just why? Terrible writing doesn't even touch it. With Cavill gone cancel all Witcher projects, **** hell.
  2. Dec 25, 2022
    0
    This is worse than getting coal for Christmas. Save yourself a migraine and go read the books.
  3. Dec 26, 2022
    3
    Why? just make your own IP if you dont give a damn. Not to mention how poorly this is shot and cut together. CGI is also quite bad but thatWhy? just make your own IP if you dont give a damn. Not to mention how poorly this is shot and cut together. CGI is also quite bad but that would be fine if the rest was decent

    Music is good
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