Tag: The Witcher

Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/16/22: The Witcher

Which Witcher? Hot, hairy,  and handsome, in an open-collar shirt, or grizzled, scarred, and dressed for business?   Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher series (reviewed by me here) has a naming convention for characters that is all over the map, yet taken as a whole, also unlike any Western fantasy I’ve read. There are names derived …

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The Witcher, Season 1 and 2 [Review]

The Witcher, based on the writings of Polish fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski, debuted on Netflix in 2019 and has remained one of its top draws ever since. It’s not hard to see why. The series is full of action, adventure, and romance, tempered with a wry, dry, typically Polish sense of humor. The Netflix show …

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