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The Witcher Season 1, Episode 7 – ‘Before a Fall’ Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 7, titled “Before a Fall”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 6, “Rare Species”.

The penultimate episode of The Witcher’s freshman season resembles the show that many fans likely expected. Grand in scope (albeit not in physicality), it places Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri at the crossroads of a potentially monumental conflict. Armies march, mages scheme, and Geralt approaches his goals with singular purpose. After a season-long struggle with structure, it finally feels as if the show has found itself.

The Witcher Season 1, Episode 6 – ‘Rare Species’ Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 6, titled “Rare Species”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 5, “Bottled Appetites”.

As The Witcher enters the final third of its first season, we’re treated to one of the fantasy genre’s greatest treasures: dragons. Not only that, but episode 6 is about as classic a Geralt story as can be told; a contract to kill a terrifying beast, with a moral dilemma right at the centre of it. It makes for one of the season’s more enjoyable tales, and sets the stage for developments in Geralt and Yennefer’s strange relationship to play out upon.

IGN UK Podcast #518: The Alternative Movie and TV Awards 2019

IGN does lots of Movie and TV of the Year Award categories, but we just can’t cover everything. That’s where IGN UK comes in, to dish out awards for the stuff no one else will.

Want to know what the Best Performance from Someone Not Called Joaquin Phoenix was? Cardy has you covered. Want to know who the 4.0 GPA award for Best School Film goes to? Matt will tell you. And who will take home the much coveted Thank God It’s Over award? Alex has the answer.

Those are just a handful of the 9 winners we will be crowning, plus we get a tantalising look into the world of Matt’s search history.

Remember, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, please do: [email protected]

The Witcher: Season 1, Episode 1 – ‘The End’s Beginning’ Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 1, titled “The End’s Beginning”.

Anyone who has read Polish fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski’s plethora of novels, or played through the gargantuan trilogy of CD Projekt Red video games, will know that the world of The Witcher is a sprawling, knotty landscape. It’s a place of conflicting kingdoms, tragic families, and murky politics. To describe the saga’s plot to a newcomer without getting caught up in its many overlapping strands is a difficult task. Smartly circumnavigating this issue, Netflix’s The Witcher show starts small, and exactly where it needs to: with Geralt.

While the first episode of The Witcher – “The End’s Beginning” – has one eye on the larger picture, it is predominantly a small-scale introduction to Henry Cavill’s slayer of beasts, Geralt of Rivia. Stripping the story back to essentials is a sensible choice, and by the episode’s conclusion we have a pretty solid understanding of who he is, what drives him, and where he stands in the greater narrative. His destiny to meet Ciri helps anchor him in the episode’s ‘B plot’, and it’s clear where the character needs to go both in narrative and personal development.

The Witcher: Season 1, Episode 3 – ‘Betrayer Moon’ Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 3, titled “Betrayer Moon”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 2, “Four Marks”.

From the get-go, The Witcher has been content to focus on its leading characters and their smaller stories, leaving any sense of a grand plot simmering in the background. Episode 3, “Betrayer Moon,” continues that trend, once again opting to delve deeper into Yennefer’s origins and adapt yet another short story for Geralt’s quest-of-the-episode. That means we’ve now had a trio of tales dedicated to plot establishment, rather than development. But while it’s hard not to feel a little impatient about the season’s pace, “Betrayer Moon” does provide a consistent third chapter to Netflix’s fantasy series.

The Witcher: Season 1, Episode 4 – Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 4, titled “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 3, “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials”.

We’ve reached the halfway mark of Netflix’s The Witcher, and episode 4 marks somewhat of a watershed moment for the show. The ties that bind Geralt and Ciri have finally been revealed, putting at least one of the show’s mysteries (partially) to bed. But the episode also feels as if it slams on the brakes, allowing for time to fill in the cracks of mysteries laid in previous stories. This creates what feels like a chapter designed to iron out creases rather that move the journey forward.

The Witcher: Season 1, Episode 2 – ‘Four Marks’ Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 2, titled “Four Marks”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 1, “The End’s Beginning”.

The first episode of The Witcher eased us gently into Geralt’s world, much as the White Wolf himself would slowly slip into his famous bathtub. But that smooth and steady introduction halts here, as episode 2 – “Four Marks” – opens the floodgates on The Witcher’s lore, creating an at-times breathless rush of information, exposition, and history. If the first episode was a side-quest, then “Four Marks” is evening-long session of reading background information on the official Witcher wiki.

Netflix’s The Witcher: Season 1 Review Roundup

The Witcher is finally out on Netflix, recounting the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, Yennefer and Ciri on a whole new medium. We will have our full Season 1 review coming on Monday, but in the meantime, we’ve done individual reviews of each episode in Season 1, which you can read below.

Star Wars: Who Are Rey’s Parents in The Rise of Skywalker?

One of the biggest questions that have been circulating since Star Wars: The Force Awakens released four years ago, is Rey’s backstory – specifically, who her parents really are.

Rian Johnson abruptly concluded the curiosity in Star Wars: The Last Jedi with Kylo Ren saying Rey’s parents were “nobody.”

“They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They’re dead in a pauper’s grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You’re nothing. But not to me,” Kylo said.

It was heavily teased before going into Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – even by director J.J. Abrams himself – that Rey’s backstory and who her parents were, would be revealed, despite the events of The Last Jedi having left fans somewhat disappointed at the halt of the previous build-up to where Rey came from.

The Witcher: Season 1, Episode 5 – ‘Bottled Appetites’ Review

This review contains full spoilers for The Witcher Season 1, episode 5, titled “Bottled Appetites”. For a refresher, check out our review of episode 4, “Of Banquets, Bastards and Burials”.

It’s been a long time coming, but with episode 5 The Witcher finally gets a move on with its overarching plotlines. Geralt and Yennefer meet for the first time, and Nilfgaard actually enacts a plan to capture Ciri. There’s notable character development across the board, and a stronger feeling of coherence between the show’s separate threats. But despite this, episode 5 notably suffers from many of The Witcher’s production woes, which overshadow several of the story’s triumphs.