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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comOct 30, 2025
Season 4 Review:
There’s still plenty for “Witcher” fans to enjoy, whether it’s the occasional Whedonesque barb from Jaskier or the monster fights that are still peppered in once in a while to remind us what so appealed about the first couple of seasons. But it’s clear the show is running out of steam, as its new star struggles to step out of the hulking shadow of his predecessor and the story spins an overwhelming number of plates.
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Screen RantOct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
Season 4 Review:
"Witcher" does not fall apart without Cavill. It does not necessarily rise from the ashes of his departure into a new and better series, either. It remains the kind of high fantasy that will please fans and confuse newcomers, with enough violence per episode to engage the senses.
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The TelegraphOct 30, 2025
Season 4 Review:
At no point is there even a mild possibility of Hemsworth overshadowing the departed Cavill – who remains the definitive Witcher. But his replacement’s quietly ridiculous turn is nonetheless perfectly attuned to a show that harks back to the days before fantasy was cool and gets by (just about) on sheer silliness.
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Radio TimesJul 27, 2023
Season 3.5 Review:
The finale, meanwhile, has some beautiful moments here and there. Once again, plenty of our cast shine, with some threads being wonderfully tied together. Cavill's final scenes are, unfortunately, somewhat inconsequential, and while the very final moments of the season set up season 4, we have to wonder how much viewers really care.
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RogerEbert.comJun 29, 2023
Season 3 Review:
The double-crossing and backroom plotting grows so prodigious and repetitive you practically have to keep it all written down in a notebook to keep it straight, if you even care about it at all. Blissfully, “The Witcher” remains watchable (witchable?) when it turns its camera back to our happy witching family.
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Dec 16, 2021
Season 2 Review:
The Witcher is most engaging when exploring the alliances and allegiances between Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri and when using those three to consider Nivellen’s insistence that “Monsters are born of deeds alone. Unforgivable ones.” But in its attempt to build a bigger world, the series falls prey to more fantasy tropes than it masters.
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The IndependentDec 10, 2021
Season 2 Review:
For all that the acting and writing is frequently ropey – “You’d be married off to the nearest Lord of Bad Breath” and “They lick the boots of humans, the same boots that will eventually crush their necks” are two of the main offenders – it has the pleasantly self-effacing air of a show that knows its first season wasn’t a home run.
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Radio TimesDec 10, 2021
Dec 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The Witcher also boasts richly expensive visuals and an expansive-seeming world, at least in its first five hours...What it lacks, though, is tonal consistency. This is a show with moments of drama and of gruesome violence cut through with a glancing humor that too often feels tossed-off and out-of-place in the world the show has created.
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The GuardianDec 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There are attempts at knowingness: at one point, our Henry tells someone a prophecy has to rhyme. This is not a good idea, as it throws into too sharp relief the limits to what Geralt and his merry band of sorceresses and proto-feminist princesses can be said to know. Play it straight, dear scriptwriters, or don’t play it at all. ... But again, if you like this sort of thing, go nuts.
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Dec 19, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It’s more of a Saturday-morning adventure than a Sunday-night prestige project. ... If it sounds like that could be fun, you’re right.
Jul 27, 2023
Dec 16, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Two years after its debut The Witcher returns to Netflix, looking every bit as brawny as its maiden flight and less messy structurally. Although the series developed a solid following (unlike some of the streamer's other recent fantasy efforts that met the executioner's ax), the show remains uneven and somewhat impenetrable to anyone not truly invested in it, which isn't helped by the long layoff.
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The Daily BeastOct 30, 2025
Season 4 Review:
It’s so same-y that even recasting its main character barely registers after a couple of episodes, and its moments of true interest are few and far between. If you’ve made it this far, you could do worse than keep watching, but you may get the feeling you’ve seen it all before.
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SlashfilmOct 30, 2025
Season 4 Review:
"The Witcher" sets up some major book moments in the end, but the impact of these familiar stakes feels dull, like a weapon that hasn't been sharpened in ages. The potential inherent in Sapkowski's world is immense, but the Netflix adaptation squanders it with season 4, which is the weakest entry in the franchise so far.
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Jul 27, 2023
Season 3.5 Review:
Season 3 amounts to disappointment. As it subtly acknowledges the parting of star Henry Cavill while simultaneously attempting to hype its audience for the two Cavill-less seasons yet to come, The Witcher’s confused – and confusing – direction has never been more apparent.
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Dec 16, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Cavill remains fine as Geralt, with his absurd physique and long white hair. He has mastered the art of the humorous grunt and it’s still fun to watch him handily slaughter dozens of men at a time or take on some comic-book looking creature. But there was an audacity to this show’s first season that now seems buried beneath plot complications.
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Dec 16, 2021
Season 2 Review:
A lot of what made the series charming has been set aside. ... Overall, you probably know whether you’re the kind of viewer who’s willing to add another complicated Brothers Grimm-meets-Middle Earth saga to your schedule. And if you like your costumed fantasies mythology-forward and you find the mechanics of world building to be an end in themselves, then this new, more mysterious and portentous season of “The Witcher” may be for you.
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RogerEbert.comDec 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If you don’t take any of this more seriously than a holiday diversion, it has undeniable moments, and a fearless performance from its leading lady. But it’s safe to say that the throne of fantasy adulation on which HBO sits, even after the divisive final season, remains unchallenged.
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The GuardianOct 30, 2025
Season 4 Review:
The tone remains wildly uneven, lurching as it does between steeple-fingered Game of Thrones-y glumness and those early-90s Saturday afternoon series in which an uncommunicative hunk wanders between small communities, rescuing imperilled innocents from baddies while learning about the true meaning of friendship.
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The Daily BeastDec 10, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Drained of its bawdier and more comical ingredients (even Joey Batey’s bard Jaskier is relegated to a brief, and underwhelming, appearance), The Witcher plods along on its wayward course, piling on complications that, by and large, fail to consistently create the type of urgent stakes—or sense of import—that a large-scale endeavor such as this demands.
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