Tag: The Witcher
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How Does The Witcher: Blood Origin Set Up the Wild Hunt?
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for The Witcher: Blood Origin.While The Witcher: Blood Origin focuses on the journey of the Seven and their war against the Golden Empire, the spinoff series also lays the foundation to give the Wild Hunt a new origin story in The Witcher. That wouldn’t be an unprecedented move since…
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The Witcher: Blood Origin: How Does Jaskier Connect to the Main Series?
With The Witcher: Blood Origin, Netflix expands the universe of The Witcher into new and exciting directions, showing events that predate the main series by 1200 years. However, the issue with a prequel that takes place long before The Witcher is that Blood Origin cannot use any of the main characters fans love. And since…
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The Witcher Showrunner Lauren Hissrich Teases How Season 3 Will Address The Wild Hunt
“The Witcher” is a sprawling high fantasy full of magic, knights, and horrendous murder beasts. Somewhere between “Game of Thrones” and “The Lord of the Rings,” the novels feature a vicious armada of craven cryptids who would like nothing more to chow down on a few locals, if given the chance. We’re talking Leshy and…
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The Witcher: Blood Origin Episode 1 Recap: A Bloody and Messy Start
The Witcher: Blood Origin is finally available on Netflix to fill some narrative gaps in The Witcher by telling us how the dimensions of Elves, humans, and monsters were united during the Conjunction of the Spheres. The series also explores the ancient state of the Continent and promises to reveal how Witchers were created. Those…
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‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ Signals Trouble for the Franchise Going Forward
Is “The Witcher” in crisis? Among a family of intensely serious fantasy fare, TV’s silly, swearing cousin is struggling through an off-year filled with more dread than anticipation. Season 1 premiered in 2019, Season 2 in 2021, and Season 3 is expected sometime next year, but it’s not the wait that’s getting to fans —…
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The Witcher: Blood Origin Review: An Entertaining Fantasy Folk Tale That Will Tickle Witcher Fans
“The Witcher: Blood Origin” is a folk tale, but it’s not just any folk tale set in “The Witcher” world. It’s a story a mysterious entity tells to everyone’s favorite bard, Jaskier (Joey Batey), and it’s a tale about events that took place 1,200 years before Henry Cavill’s Geralt sardonically lazed about in hot tubs.It’s…
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The Witcher: Blood Origin Review: Too Many New Characters, Not Enough Time
When it comes to high fantasy these days, almost every streamer and network has its own entry into the genre. Netflix saw success when it came to The Witcher, with Henry Cavill as the titular character, and then went on to green-light the animated film The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf and then the miniseries…
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Henry Cavill’s Return As Superman Just Got More Complicated
Thanks to the post-credits scene of “Black Adam,” fans of Henry Cavill’s version of Superman began to rejoice as it seemed like the actor would be returning to the character. The excitement started to ramp up as the man behind this Man of Steel recently left Netflix’s adaptation of “The Witcher,” which was a part…
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The Witcher: Blood Origin Creators on the Spinoff and The Witcher Season 4
Only 3 years since Netflix premiered the first season of their fantasy series The Witcher, the original series’ showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and writer Declan de Barra are taking fans back to the beginning in The Witcher: Blood Origin. Based on the novels by author Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood Origin is set 1200 years before the…
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Every Game of Thrones Spinoff Series in Development or Cancelled
It’s currently an era where media empires live and die based on the properties at their disposal. Disney is entirely devoted to curating their Marvel and Star Wars franchises, Amazon is dominated by Lord of the Rings content, Paramount is shaping its new streaming service around the Star Trek franchise, and Netflix is looking to…