Initial Criticism of Season Two of The Witcher

A few days before the release of the second season of the series adaptation of the popular book and game series The Witcher, early reviews for the new season started to come. The first season of The Witcher, which was the most watched original series on Netflix in the period it was aired; The series received negative reviews from critics as well as fans. However, this situation seems to change with the second season.

Judging by the early reviews, the second season of The Witcher seems to have managed to satisfy the critics. While the score of the first season of the series on Rotten Tomatoes is 68%, this number stands out as 95% for the second season for now.

The new season of The Witcher will air on December 17

Of course, currently the number of reviews for season 2 is only a quarter of the total for season 1; however, this number is very promising as there is only one reviewer who gave the new season a bad rating. It seems that everyone seems to like this ‘family’ dynamic that the series gained after Geralt found Ciri at the end of the first season and Ciri started her education.

On the other hand, The Witcher, which may be as popular as HBO’s Game of Thrones for Netflix, is a little dull because of Netflix’s format. As you know, all episodes of most of Netflix’s series are broadcast in one day or at very short intervals. As such, Netflix series, which can be much more popular, are talked about for a shorter time compared to the series of other platforms that broadcast weekly episodes. While the followers of the series published on other platforms talk about what will happen or what will happen in the new episode every week; Due to Netflix broadcasting all the episodes at once, all the available material suddenly runs out.

Although most Netflix viewers say they like this feature of the platform, Netflix; pretty much the only service currently broadcasting this way. In order to test this, Netflix preferred to broadcast the episodes of the popular animated series Arcane, several episodes at a time for three weeks, instead of giving them all at once. And considering how long the show has been talked about, this method seems to have worked better.

The second season of The Witcher hits Netflix on Friday, December 17.