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Trzy ostatnie epizody zostały udostępnione recenzentom. Na screenie opinia jednego z nich po oglądnięciu całego sezonu.
A wracając do wczorajszej premiery i czytając opinie ludzi na reddicie wynika, że będzie hit (!)
Jedyne dwie osoby, niezadowolone z wczorajszego premierowego seansu w Warszawie to Marcin Gortat ;) i @mike-mo
Oprócz tego bezspoilerowa zapowiedź i opinia po 1 odcinku z magazynu "Fortune".

STREAM IT: 'The Witcher' (Netflix)

Netflix's latest original-series gamble is aiming for Game of Thrones-level complexity in its sketching of a dark-fantasy realm where mythical creatures lie in wait but monarchal power struggles loom just as large.

And based on its first season, The Witcher (adapted from the beloved book series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski) is well on its way. Comprising eight episodes, a smaller number which clearly allowed showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich to focus on thoughtfully tracing an ambitious array of story arcs, the series hangs around the impossibly broad shoulders of Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill, great at veining these strong-and-silent types with a gallows humor).

A stone-faced loner who roams the dangerous Continent in search of monsters to slay, Geralt is no hero, and he's often perilously close to going over the edge in his bloodletting. The character's most distinguished by his unwillingness to diverge from his own moral compass by getting involved in court politics. In this, he's reminiscent of Clint Eastwood's tumbleweed-drifting Man with No Name or Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe, a sword in hand rather than a revolver. But Geralt's on a path toward destiny, as protagonists in high-fantasy fare such as this often are, and he's soon to become entwined in the fates of two distinctly powerful women. There's Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), in training to become a powerful sorceress at a mysterious academy, and Ciri (Freya Allen), a young princess in hiding after her kingdom was ransacked and her parents slain. All three characters are afforded their own storylines, weaving their way across the Continent and finding themselves transformed in a myriad of ways by its darkest, magical elements.

Further detailing the epic, sweeping nature of The Witcher's story would be to deprive audiences of unexpected, rather graceful reveals that the scripts tease out in due time. What there is to say about The Witcher is that it represents one of Netflix's most fully formed forays into genre territory yet. The fights, especially in a cinematic and sprawling pilot, are of a kinetic and impressively top-shelf variety, Cavill's Geralt moving like a man possessed as he rends flesh from bone and engages in some surprisingly balletic bouts of swordplay. And the production design is similarly well-executed, quickly establishing the Continent as a grungy, bloody landscape for these characters to navigate. But it's the strength of the storytelling that bodes most well for The Witcher as a new destination for those done licking their wounds after that fateful final run in Westeros.

https://fortune.com/2019/12/18/what-to-watch-skip-theaters-netflix-star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-cats-witcher/

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