The Witcher

“Netflix has already confirmed that the show’s fifth season will be its last. This fourth chapter feels like a tick-box exercise, helping the show limp towards its conclusion. But the series’s fans must be frustrated by the way the product has degraded in the years since its promising debut in 2019. No amount of imaginative swordplay or inventive creature design can prevent the sense that The Witcher is now what all sword and sorcery epics fear becoming: pure bilge.”
Nick Hilton, The Independent

”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. Similarly uneven is Geralt II’s accent. Poor Geralt II’s accent. “He hasn’t been the same since his injuries,” warns Jaskier with no little understatement as his companion’s vowels once again escape their restraints and make for Erinsborough. Our hero does his best to compensate by mumbling incomprehensibly while making his nostrils flap like enraged windsocks. “Grrrnnngh”, he says. “Grrrnnngh destiny rrmmph.” Alas, no amount of wounded grunting can detract from the fact that Hemsworth, bless his pleather britches, is no Henry Cavill.”
Sarah Dempster, The Guardian

“Overall, the fourth outing is unfortunately a frustrating and inconsistent entry, marked by a significant drop in quality. The shifting tone – paired with uneven performances and production elements – occasionally tips the series into melodrama.”
Nicola Austin, Radio Times