The Witcher: Season 2

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The Witcher: Geralt & Ciri

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Season Details & Credits

Netflix | Season Premiere Date: December 17, 2021

Summary: Geralt of Rivia takes Princess Cirilla to his childhood home of Kaer Morhen in the second season of the fantasy series based on the Polish book series by Andrzej Sapkowski.

Creator: Lauren Schmidt

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Season 2 Episodes

2.4
S2:E8. Family
Air Date: December 17, 2021
2.6
S2:E7. Voleth Meir
Air Date: December 17, 2021
2.5
S2:E6. Dear Friend
Air Date: December 17, 2021

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Critic Reviews

Allison Keene

Dec 10, 2021

The Witcher’s interpretation of its original text offers up something new—and that’s refreshing, both within this story and for fantasy TV at large. Read full review

Kayla Cobb

Dec 10, 2021

The Witcher Season 2 is the best kind of adaptation. It takes something known and creates something wholly unique while always respecting its source material. No matter if you’ve read and played everything or if you’re entirely new to this world, you’re going to have a blast. Read full review

Jarrod Jones

Dec 10, 2021

The Witcher’s second season is vastly more confident about leaning into the high fantasy and higher stakes of Sapkowski’s lore, opting to let characters such as the wizened witcher Vesemir (Kim Bodnia) speak of forgotten histories instead of taking safer, more randy detours. Encouraging still is its stronger focus on maintaining a sense of narrative momentum (gone is the needlessly confusing time-hopping format of season one), at last bestowing upon The Witcher a sense of direction and purpose. Read full review

Niv M. Sultan

Dec 16, 2021

The Witcher still suffers from the tendency of many fantasy tales to casually mention myriad names of cities, characters, and phenomena to the point of bewilderment, but the proceedings feel far clearer this time around thanks to the season’s tighter focus and the steady drip of context afforded by Yen’s journey. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Dec 19, 2021

Watching the foundation get laid isn’t always exciting, but it does feel like showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is building toward rousing sequences and cares about each of the characters equally. Whether you feel the same doesn’t really matter. “The Witcher” is in it for the long haul, and even if Season 2 feels longer than it should, you won’t regret the ride. Read full review

Roxana Hadadi

Dec 16, 2021

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. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Dec 10, 2021

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. Read full review

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arckmeez

Dec 18, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I know there is a lot of wokeness on the show casting selection, but to my surprise, was a lot better than the first, with only a main character (well two that might anger hardcore readers, in a way, I understand it, Yennefer for example, I will never understand, why they try to make her out of character likeable, when the Lannister proves, that you can be a bastard and beloved, and Eskel there's a lot of fun with him in both games and books and Now is gone forever, for some woke nobody Witcher who might replace him) from the original books and games been sacrifice.

I happy to report that the season just scratch the surface and might give more seasons come and yet give some bone to eat to the normies. The change from the script I liked more, at least the woke Characters are doing a lot more than the original characters on the first season, in general an excellent season to be honest with a good story been told from it, Henry kept his word... I do recommend though, that read the damn books and played the games, those media deserves to turn you into a show hater...… Expand

22 of 75 users found this helpful2253

owenw218

Dec 18, 2021

Better than season 1, and enjoyably paced, I see an unfortunate number of bad reviews by people claiming black people and people of color broke their immersion in a show that happens in a different universe with magic and monsters... Why would this universe speak in English, let aloneBetter than season 1, and enjoyably paced, I see an unfortunate number of bad reviews by people claiming black people and people of color broke their immersion in a show that happens in a different universe with magic and monsters... Why would this universe speak in English, let alone dialetc we would recognize in 2021?

I didn't get triggered by wokeness, and anyone who did is pushing an agenda and not just watching the show for what it is, a fantasy show about elves, witchers, magic and monsters.

It's good, it's only too woke if you're gassed up on ben shapiro and a lack of relationships with normal people in your life.… Expand

11 of 30 users found this helpful1119

Motoserdar

Dec 18, 2021

Nothing special! Avarage on everything. The first season had some character and it was worth to watch. There was great music, deep character stories, variety of original monsters, amazing places and costumes and furthermore every detail were sexy and charismatic. There is none of them in theNothing special! Avarage on everything. The first season had some character and it was worth to watch. There was great music, deep character stories, variety of original monsters, amazing places and costumes and furthermore every detail were sexy and charismatic. There is none of them in the second season. It feels like a stretched 2nd class movie not a full season series.… Expand

4 of 14 users found this helpful410

marianpilka

Dec 23, 2021

Every single episode besides the first one is just plain stupid and boring. Decisions made by some characters are hard to explain or justify. Vesemir looking like a tiger king (I think he even saw Carol Baskin in Ciri in the last episode), Ciri looking like pretentious karen, Trist stillEvery single episode besides the first one is just plain stupid and boring. Decisions made by some characters are hard to explain or justify. Vesemir looking like a tiger king (I think he even saw Carol Baskin in Ciri in the last episode), Ciri looking like pretentious karen, Trist still looking like a queen of gypsies. All that in addition to wooden play by actors, absolutely no tension between characters and no idea how to enrich the story. In conclusion, poor tv show with questionable cast decisions, probably tried to make a tv show for everybody and came up with a tv show nobody will want to watch. I only feel sorry for Cavill as he was the only one giving somehow positive feeling.… Expand

4 of 8 users found this helpful44

jurkiewka13

Dec 30, 2021

This season is a PROFANATION of everything the Witcher has to offer. The world of The Witcher is multidimensional, and each character is not unequivocally good or bad. The series looks realy flat against the background of books - everything is black and white, and the viewer is treated likeThis season is a PROFANATION of everything the Witcher has to offer. The world of The Witcher is multidimensional, and each character is not unequivocally good or bad. The series looks realy flat against the background of books - everything is black and white, and the viewer is treated like an idiot. Everything that is good in the books has been turned into a vision of screenwriters that is illogical and bland. I appreciate the work of Henry and Joey, but the rest of this show is a tragedy. I'm not waiting for season 3. I go back to books and games to forget what I saw in season 2 of this thing.… Expand

5 of 8 users found this helpful53

honeymay789

Dec 9, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only scenes I like are the ones with Henry, but he can't carry this show on his own. He's maybe in 30% of the scenes. I don't know why the writers thought it was a good idea to rewrite this story. The original books and video games were all well received by fans, this season 2 not so much. What does that tell you? The writers need to be replaced. Without Henry I don't think this show will last. Also, the positive critic review are suspicious.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Hellspeller

Dec 21, 2021

Not gonna bother writing a review since they didnt bother to write a script

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Seasons & Episodes

63

Series Overview
Season 4

59
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: October 30, 2025
Season 3.5

65
- Season 3.5 Overview
  Air Date: July 27, 2023
Season 3

71
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: June 29, 2023
Season 2

69
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 2.4
  S2:E8. Family
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 2.6
  S2:E7. Voleth Meir
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 2.5
  S2:E6. Dear Friend
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 3.1
  S2:E5. Turn Your Back
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 3.0
  S2:E4. Redanian Intelligence
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 2.8
  S2:E3. What is Lost
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 2.4
  S2:E2. Kaer Morhen
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
- 6.0
  S2:E1. A Grain of Truth
  Air Date: December 17, 2021
Season 1

53
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: December 20, 2019