The Witcher (2019)

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 8, "Much More", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...

The Witcher Recap: You Can Always Rely On Destiny

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 7, "Before A Fall", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous...

The Witcher Recap: How It Really Happened

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 6, "Rare Species", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...

The Witcher Recap: The Way of the Dragon

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 5, "Bottled Appetites", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...

The Witcher Recap: Be Careful What You Wish For

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 4, "Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on...

The Witcher Recap: Everybody Likes Surprises

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 3, "Betrayer Moon", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...

The Witcher Recap: Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 2, "Four Marks", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode...

The Witcher Recap: What's In A Name?

This recap of The Witcher Season 1, Episode 1, "The End's Beginning", contains spoilers. You can check out our spoiler-free thoughts on the...

The Witcher Recap: The Lesser of Two Evils

This review of The Witcher (Netflix) Season 1 is spoiler-free. Check the bottom of this article for a full episode guide including in-depth...

The Witcher Season 1 Review: Netflix Finally Has Its Epic Fantasy Series

Ciri's lineage is intimately tied to her powers and importance in The Witcher Season 2, and a significant component is the idea that she...

The Witcher Season 2 - Does Ciri have Elder Blood?

Throughout The Witcher Season 2, one of the central dramatic questions is why, exactly, Ciri is of such great importance to so many people. And...

The Witcher Season 2 - What was the Conjunction of the Spheres?

In the third episode of The Witcher Season 2, "What Is Lost", Stregobor tries to justify his crusade against Yennefer and her quarter-elf heritage by...

The Witcher Season 2 - Who is Falka? Is she related to Ciri?

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 8, "Family", contains spoilers, including a discussion of the Witcher Season 2 ending. We've made it,...

The Witcher season 2, episode 8 recap - the finale/ending explained

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 7, "Voleth Meir", contains spoilers. Following on from the end of the previous episode, Ciri...

The Witcher season 2, episode 7 recap - "Voleth Meir"

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 6, "Dear Friend...", contains spoilers. I forgot to mention this in my recap of the...

The Witcher season 2, episode 6 recap - "Dear Friend..."

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 5, "Turn Your Back", contains spoilers. "Turn Your Back" pulls the age-old trick of showing...

The Witcher season 2, episode 5 recap - "Turn Your Back"

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 4, "Redanian Intelligence", contains spoilers. As is becoming a trend, "Redanian Intelligence" runs for the...

The Witcher season 2, episode 4 recap - "Redanian Intelligence"

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 3, "What Is Lost", contains spoilers. The problem with ancient keeps, central heating notwithstanding, is...

The Witcher season 2, episode 3 recap - "What Is Lost"

In the world of Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher stories, the eponymous monster hunters are mutants who make a hardscrabble living by vanquishing monsters. It's...

The Witcher Season 2 - What is Kaer Morhen, and why do the Witchers go there?

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 2, "Kaer Morhen", contains spoilers. "Kaer Morhen" is divided, broadly, into two parallel plot strands,...

The Witcher season 2, episode 2 recap - "Kaer Morhen"

This recap of The Witcher season 2, episode 1, "A Grain of Truth", contains spoilers. Of course, it opens with a monster killing...

The Witcher season 2, episode 1 recap - "A Grain of Truth"

Much of The Witcher’s first season was cribbed from The Last Wish, the first collection of short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski. And while...

The Witcher Season 2 – Who is Nivellen? Why is he cursed?

This story recap will obviously contain massive spoilers for what happened in The Witcher Season 1. As I said in my spoiler-free review...

Story Recap: What happened in The Witcher Season 1 in (roughly) chronological order

This review of The Witcher Season 2 is spoiler-free. The Witcher’s success wasn’t a surprise. Despite the historic tendency of video game adaptations...

The Witcher Season 2 review – a more confident, emotional follow-up

Who is the fake Ciri in The Witcher Season 3? We discuss a key plot point in the popular Netflix series. While the...

Who is the fake Ciri in The Witcher Season 3? 

Who is Falka in The Witcher Season 3? We discuss the popular Netflix series and one of the crucial plot points. In episode...

Who is Falka in The Witcher Season 3? Explained

What happens to Geralt at the end of The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2? We discuss the popular Netflix series and a crucial...

What happens to Geralt at the end of The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2?

Where is Ciri at the end of The Witcher Season 3? We discuss a crucial plot point from the popular Netflix series. Spoilers...

Where is Ciri at the end of The Witcher Season 3?

We recap the 2023 Netflix series The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2? (Episodes 6-8), which contains spoilers as it details what happened. A...

Recap - what happened in The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2? (Episodes 6-8)

We recap the Netflix series The Witcher Season 3 Episode 8, “The Cost of Chaos,” which contains spoilers and explains the Ending. Henry...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 8 Recap and Ending Explained

We recap the Netflix series The Witcher Season 3 Episode 7, “Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan,” which contains spoilers. Unlike...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 7 Recap - who is the mysterious Hooded Woman?

Volume 2 of The Witcher Season 3 also marks the final three episodes with Henry Cavill as the titular White Wolf. The actor...

The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2 Review - A disappointing end to Cavill's tenure

We recap the Netflix series The Witcher Season 3 Episode 6, “Everybody Has a Plan ‘Till They Get Punched in the Face,” which...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 6 Recap - who dies in the Battle of Aretuza?

Are Yennefer and Geralt together in The Witcher Season 3? We discuss a key plot point from the popular Netflix series. As far...

Are Yennefer and Geralt together in The Witcher Season 3?

Why does Redania want Ciri? We discuss a key plot point from the third season of The Witcher. It contains major spoilers for...

Why does Redania want Ciri? The Witcher Season 3 Explainer

Who is the man at the end of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 1? We discuss a key plot point from the third...

Who is the man at the end of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 1?

Who is the real Ciri in The Witcher Season 3? We discuss key plot points from the third season of The Witcher series....

Who is the real Ciri in The Witcher Season 3?

This recap of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 5, “The Art of the Illusion”, contains spoilers. It also openly discusses the ending of...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 5 Recap and Volume 1 Ending Explained

This recap of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 4, “The Invitation”, contains spoilers. In the penultimate episode of The Witcher Season 3 Volume...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 4 Recap - Who is being taken from Aretuza?

This recap of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 3, “Reunion”, contains spoilers. Jaskier is thinking about Radovid. What he’d like to believe is...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 3 Recap - Who is Rience working with?

This recap of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 2, "Unbound", contains spoilers. After spending the better part of two seasons keeping Geralt, Ciri,...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 2 Recap - Who are Codringher and Fenn?

This recap of The Witcher Season 3 Episode 1, "Shaerrawedd", contains spoilers. You can usually tell a lot about a show by how...

The Witcher Season 3 Episode 1 Recap - What is Shaerrawedd?

This review of the Netflix series The Witcher Season 3 Volume 1 does not contain spoilers. It has been quite a thing to...

The Witcher Season 3 Volume 1 Review - An Annoyingly Imperfect Epic