The low critical scores do not weigh The Witcher, which ranks as the third most watched series in the US among those offered on demand.
Although the criticism has not been benevolent with The Witcher, the series premiered on Netflix last 20, the public has received it with open arms, placing it as the third most popular demand series in the United States. The series starring Henry Cavill and based on the popular Andrezj Sapkowski novels and CD Projekt video games, has a 56% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, but 93% from the public with a total of 12,000 reviews .
Great premiere for the Warlock
His debut was brilliant on streaming television in the United States, being the third most watched series in the week of December 18-24, just behind the celebrated Stranger Things and The Mandalorian, another highly anticipated show set in the Star universe Wars, broadcast on Netflix and Disney + respectively. All this despite, as we say, a collection of negative reviews, some of them very hard as the one that could be read in Entertainment Weekly, which defined The Witcher as "a festival of boredom" , recognizing the author of the review that went directly to the fifth episode.
"Who should I worry about? The" professional "critics who watch an episode and skip the rest or the real fans who watch the eight episodes in one day and see them again?" The showrunner said on Twitter Lauren Schmidt Hissrich.
Recently, last November, Netflix renewed The Witcher for a second season whose premiere is already planned in 2021. But this is only the beginning, since Schmidt Hissrich herself said that the initial plans speak of nothing less than seven seasons
