The Witcher has become a show that demands close reading, but threatens to insult the intelligence of anyone patient enough to do so.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2023

In The Witcher Season 3, Henry Cavill is working overtime to make sure we miss him when he’s gone—and not just by giving us another steamy bath scene.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2023

... Perhaps more ambitious but also less successful, to which we must add Cavill's departure. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

While season 3 is no perfect puzzle box, its pieces eventually fall into place.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2023

With plotlines finally beginning to coalesce, this is the tightest, most action-packed season of The Witcher yet.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2023

As far as swan songs go, Season 3 of The Witcher is an unexpectedly exceptional one for Cavill's Geralt...

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jun 29, 2023

The Witcher Season 3 Volume 1 is a work of excellent dark-fantasy storytelling. If you have enjoyed your previous journeys with Geralt of Rivia, I cannot fathom a reason why you would not enjoy this one.

Full Review | Original Score: 9.5/10 | Jun 29, 2023

Part I reduces the action but increases the development of its main characters, finally making a genuine connection between them, and streamlines the plots so they become easier to follow, or at least easier than previous seasons. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

The Witcher show made its name based on Cavill killing monsters, but its underlying source material used those fights as a way to introduce Geralt to readers, but the show has failed to pivot to match the source material and is running out of time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

Geralt and Ciri’s latest outing is a spectacular odyssey of family and destiny set within a world as brimming with history as it is in political schemes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2023

The first half of 'The Witcher' season 3 has no intention of tying off any of its many plot threads, but it does at least set the stage for a barnstorming finale for Henry Cavill's Geralt of Rivia.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

Really, it falls to Cavill to carry the whole thing, which he does with aplomb. The man utterly sells it: you care about Geralt, and when he is not on screen, the whole thing suffers. This series will be poorer without him.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

In the meantime, the first half of The Witcher Season 3 remains a frustratingly messy adventure that still can’t quite capitalize on the franchise’s obvious potential.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

The Witcher Season 3 is an immense political and magical story cleverly woven through five episodes, with the actors appearing well settled in their roles by this point -- a quality that could prove troublesome once Cavill leaves the series.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2023

Season 3 retains much of what makes The Witcher so enjoyable, mixing over half a dozen major characters, complicated relationships, and blockbuster storylines together to form something that’s simultaneously smart, self-aware, and loads of fun to watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.8/10 | Jun 29, 2023

The beginning of Henry Cavill’s Geralt swan song both starts and ends strongly, but this inconsistent volume's continual preoccupation with The Continent’s politics does little to excite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2023

Can the show cope without Henry Cavill? It will be painful, but The Witcher has enough going on for us to imagine life without him.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2023

What happens when neutrality is no longer an option? That’s the question that volume one sets up... But this is a particularly inelegant split, even by Netflix standards, cutting off just as the season’s major themes start to take shape.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 29, 2023

A return of form of sorts, bringing The Witcher back to the things that make it unique -- it’s funny, bloody, and sexy. There’s even a bath scene, which is as Witcher as it gets.

Full Review | Jun 29, 2023

A great showcase for the chemistry between Henry Cavill, Anya Chalortra, and Freya Allan, but the series’ strict adherence to its source material pushes them to the side for long stretches.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 29, 2023