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Netflix has officially renewed The Witcher for a fifth and final season as filming commences on Season 4 of the hit fantasy drama.

The renewal announcement from Netflix coincided with the news that The Witcher's fourth (and now penultimate) season has entered production in the UK. Images from a recent table read offer fans a sneak peek at new and returning cast members, including Liam Hemsworth, who is taking over the role of Geralt of Rivia.

The Witcher secured a fourth season renewal in October 2022, but Netflix has only now given Season 5 the greenlight. The two seasons will be filmed back-to-back and will adapt the remainder of Andrzej Sapkowski's books, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow, and Lady of the Lake, to conclude the TV adaptation.

"It is with huge pride that we begin shooting our penultimate Season of The Witcher with a stellar cast, including some exciting new additions, led by Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia," said showrunner and executive producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. "We're thrilled to be able to bring Andrzej Sapkowski's books to an epic and satisfying conclusion. It wouldn't be our show if we didn't push our family of characters to their absolute limit — stay tuned to see how the story ends."

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

It's going to be terrible.

 

[Pakoe]

Good.

 

[Ribi]

no thanks

 

[Evolved1]

i'm suuuuure they're adapting the last books.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

i hate netflix

 

[LazyParrot]

I didn't even know it was still going.

 

[DaciaJC]

The sooner that travesty of an adaptation is dead, the better.

 

[Loomy]

The two seasons will be filmed back-to-back and will adapt the remainder of Andrzej Sapkowski's books, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow, and Lady of the Lake

In 2 season? lmao

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Hemsworth be like: “Just in time to takeover the Master Chief role.”

 

[Svejk]

Stopped watching it after the first season. Lol

 

[Denton]

Was hoping they would cancel it after S4, but I guess I'll take it. It is a shame how they squandered the potential.

Hopefully Sapkowski will be able to resell those rights again sometime to someone more competent.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

It's going to be terrible.

It is literally unwatchable past the first season

 

[Braag]

I quit middle of S3. Henry did right leaving that turd of a show

 

[LordOfChaos]

Last season was unwatchable, and the next will be without Henry Cavil trying to drag it kicking and screaming into more lore accurate. The show runners are just junk.

I kept trying to figure out if I was missing something important happening in that all is not as it seems episode, nope it was just fucking stupid and poorly edited

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Hopefully Sapkowski will be able to resell those rights again sometime to someone more competent.

New Witcher book comes out this year.

 

[Xtib81]

Couldn't even finish the first one.

 

[Laptop1991]

Hard to believe there is a new one after the disaster of season 2 onwards, awful show and not about The Witcher

 

[LordCBH]

The series ended for me many seasons ago.

 

[GymWolf]

I wasn't able to watch more than season 1 and half of s2 tbh...

 

[MALpractice311]

Have they even debuted Season 3 yet? Are we up to the point where Henry Cavill is out?

 

[SJRB]

How this dogshit show made it to five seasons in the first place is beyond me.

 

[Daneel Elijah]

I wasn't able to watch more than season 1 and half of s2 tbh...

Same.
By the way I think that they will have Laurence Fishburne in it somehow. So I will look at his scenes on youtube at least. Hopefully he will get a few good lines.

 

[FunkMiller]

Easily the worst example of absolute cunts who hate the source material ruining the whole damn thing for everyone.

Get fucked.

 

[Spyxos]

Have they even debuted Season 3 yet? Are we up to the point where Henry Cavill is out?

I don't think season 3 is out yet, but I want to at least watch the akward beginning when they show the new Witcher.

 

[Hardensoul]

Haha! I skipped S3, without Henry next season did they really expect viewers to increase?

Edit: oh shit S3 not out yet, S2 was so bad it felt like I skipped it. No way I’m watching Next 3 seasons with out Henry and all the woke non cannon crap!

 

[Arsic]

 

[mckmas8808]

It is literally unwatchable past the first season

The 2nd season was decent to me.

 

[Pharaoh 117]

Gave up on it after Season 2. Season 1 was good all things considered, but after that they started changing things too much so I was out. From what I heard Season 3 was atrocious so I'm glad I did. I expected it will only get worst, specially with a bad actor as lead.

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

Couldn't sit through the first episode. Shocked this made it to season 5. Let it end and good riddance.

 

[Dazraell]

I thought first season was decent, but it had a lot of bizarre changes to source material I didn't liked. Season 2 was so terrible I gave up on this series. I don't expect that Season 4 and 5 will be any better

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

The 2nd season was decent to me.

It doesn’t seem like the shows writers or producers seem to care at all about the source material. Why even do a Witcher show if you don’t like the book series.

Make a different show, call it something else. I’d love an actual Witcher show to be made some day

 

[Fart Knight]

Shit went downhill with S2.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

It's going to be terrible.

All seasons were terrible man, from the diversity quota that had to be filled, to the awful casting and finally, the production values which...just weren't there, no set looked "lived in" and everything just had this very cheap look about it (cinematography included).

Terrible series all around, not even Cavill was able to salvage it.

 

[Fbh]

I only made it a couple of episodes into S2 and gave up.
I'm surprised enough people watch this for Netflix to greenlight so many seasons.

 

[Gudji]

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

I wouldn't watch it without Cavill.

I barely watched it with Cavill.

 

[jason10mm]

Have they even debuted Season 3 yet? Are we up to the point where Henry Cavill is out?

Yes, season 3 (and Cavills final eps) are out. It was better than S2 but thats a loooooooow bar.

Just blasting through the rest of the story is probably for the best. Netflix completes their contract, we actually get a completed show, and the budget is likely to be about enough to buy a few happy meals

I don't really see how this show salvages itself with the cast it has and the directions it has taken. Ciri is somewhat intact and we could get a decent run with her if the actress is up for it. But Geralt is toast at this point and Yen, from what I recall, is largely absent in the later books so no idea what they will have her do (other than all the stuff Geralt was supposed to do, I guess). They have also largely ruined the elves, be interesting if they keep going with them.

 

[Ammogeddon]

Cavill was good and parts of S1 was okay, but generally, the Witcher TV show was rubbish.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Season one was barely bearable and season two was a pile of fucking goblin shite. I'd wager that season 3 will be what I imagine goblin shite eaten and shat out again looks like.

 

[DAHGAMING]

A right higgledy piggledy mess of a show, could of been great but nah ya dun goofed again Netflix.

 

[Elios83]

Only watched the first season and it wasn't really good.
It's surprising it went this far with Cavill also leaving.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

This will do abysmal numbers.

 

[Ma-Yuan]

Let them waste the money i don't care didn't even watch season 3.

 

[jason10mm]

Season one was barely bearable and season two was a pile of fucking goblin shite. I'd wager that season 3 will be what I imagine goblin shite eaten and shat out again looks like.

Well, it looked a lot like a gay jaskier and hot(ish) chicks bathing whilst fully clothed/covered in mist, thats for sure.

Remember how all the sorceresses were OBSESSED with their physical appearance, using glamour, enacting strict diet control OVER and OVER, and constantly competing with each other over men and petty fashion in the books? Yeah, not so much in the show. They kept a lot of the creepy wizards though, for some reason....

 

[mayham2199]

I liked the first two seasons. Didn't even bother with the 3rd once I heard Henry was being replaced.

 

[Fabieter]

I stopped watching after season 1.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Only watched the first season and it was pretty bad. Heard nothing but awful things about the rest of the show so haven't even bothered. Also, if you're not interested in respecting the source material what is the fucking point of adapting it?

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I'll not be watching any more of the show.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

It's going to be terrible.

Then, nothing changes.