Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
- Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys
- 7 wins & 33 nominations total
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- TriviaHenry Cavill's training for the role consisted of extensive sword-training (besides the rigorous bodybuilding required to prepare his physique for the camera). He said, "I spent all of my free time, and when I wasn't on set, with a sword in my hand. It was getting used to the weight of the sword, using it day in and day out. I had three swords where I lived, and four at work. And it was just non-stop practice, practice, practice."
- GoofsAt various instances, the incorrect sword type is used by Geralt. Geralt carries two swords: the dark-hilted sword with Renfri's broach on the crossguard is made of steel while the white-hilted sword is coated in silver. It is established that only silver works against monsters, especially for ensuring a killing blow. This straight-forward rule is not followed in various episodes of the series despite being mentioned in the first episode (and in latter episodes as well).
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This show is going downhill faster than a professional toboggan team
I was quite engaged by the first series, save for the now apparently obligatory film technique of jumping about in time.
When Eric Morecambe played the right notes but not necessarily in the right order, it was very funny and always will be. But the fashionable dissection and rearrangement of stories so that you struggle to work out what is going on, is neither funny nor clever. It appears to me to be something adopted by unimaginative story tellers who have nothing worthy up their sleeve and so mangle what is inevitably a far better story when told chronologically, for the sake of trying to look cutting edge.
That said, there were some good action scenes in the first series and a fairly decent plot. If some of the actors had been directed more robustly so that they emphasised the right words in sentences, the dialogue would have been less mechanical and more snappy and witty.
Series 2 (I am up to episode 6) is much less engaging. The writing, which was not scintillating in series 1, is now almost inane. Another current trend of throwing the F word into the mix for the sake of it (because script writers are told this is what most audience members want) rather than with good reason puts the F word into the mouths of actors who are clearly uncomfortable with using it where it is anomalous. I am giving up on it for now, but if a well regarded third series appears I might return to see how this sinking ship of a series was re-floated.
When Eric Morecambe played the right notes but not necessarily in the right order, it was very funny and always will be. But the fashionable dissection and rearrangement of stories so that you struggle to work out what is going on, is neither funny nor clever. It appears to me to be something adopted by unimaginative story tellers who have nothing worthy up their sleeve and so mangle what is inevitably a far better story when told chronologically, for the sake of trying to look cutting edge.
That said, there were some good action scenes in the first series and a fairly decent plot. If some of the actors had been directed more robustly so that they emphasised the right words in sentences, the dialogue would have been less mechanical and more snappy and witty.
Series 2 (I am up to episode 6) is much less engaging. The writing, which was not scintillating in series 1, is now almost inane. Another current trend of throwing the F word into the mix for the sake of it (because script writers are told this is what most audience members want) rather than with good reason puts the F word into the mouths of actors who are clearly uncomfortable with using it where it is anomalous. I am giving up on it for now, but if a well regarded third series appears I might return to see how this sinking ship of a series was re-floated.
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- Dec 24, 2021
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- Thợ Săn Quái Vật
- Filming locations
- Ogrodzieniec, Slaskie, Poland(castle)
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 2.00 : 1
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