Others worried that The Witcher would “not thrive on high production values alone” (Time), while Entertainment Weekly called the show “terrible”. Last weekend, The Witcher showed a rating of 9.1/10 from over 23,000 users, while #Witcher and #WitcherNetflix have trended on Twitter. At a minimum, the positive audience response to The Witcher confirms the entertainment hole that Game of Thrones left, and consumers’ desire to return to realms of epic fantasy, where princes and princesses and monsters abound. HBO has reportedly ordered a series based on Martin’s book Fire & Blood. The series will be set 300 years before Game of Thrones and centers on the Dance of Dragons, an episode in the Targaryen civil war.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2019 08:00 UTC