Which Fantasy Series Should I Watch, Witcher, Cursed or The Letter for The King?

[cylkoth]

I'm finding myself in the mood for a medieval fantasy series after I finish the stuff I'm watching now, and after looking around I've narrowed it down to three Netflix series, The Witcher, Cursed or The Letter For The King. I haven't decided which of the three to watch, so I was just wondering if anybody on here had any thoughts on them?

Watch'em all! One to two episodes at a time, alternating sessions. Witcher is the A title among the three. IMO, tv critics harped incessantly over the story structure...it's like they've never had a story jump around before. They've been overly harsh towards everything Netflix does, and their whinging and whining tends to take on a life of it's on online. Cursed does start slow, but picks up steam as the story unfolds.
Letter is a Y/A title, I liked it, its a fine series if you accept it for what it is, a Y/A adventure and not the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th coming of Game of Thrones as the tv critics insist on shoving Throne into any discussion of any new fantasy series coming along.

 

[JD]

I'm not that worried about the story structure, I saw tons of people bitching about how confusing Westworld Season 1 was, but I never had any trouble with it. I was honestly more confused by other people finding it confusing than I was by the show, I thought it was perfectly clear as long as you paid attention.

 

[Anwar]

It was pretty easy to figure out the Witcher's time-jumping narrative after a minute or two of seeing the big stuff.

Of course, they cheated a bit by having the one major normal human look absolutely the same in every time period, so to not give the plot point away.

 

[USS Firefly]

It was pretty easy to figure out the Witcher's time-jumping narrative after a minute or two of seeing the big stuff.

Of course, they cheated a bit by having the one major normal human look absolutely the same in every time period, so to not give the plot point away.

Some people don't change much over a periode of years, look at Keanu Reeves or Patrick Stewart

 

[JD]

Watched episodes two and three, and now I have a good idea of the timeline. Once you see a characters as an older person in one story, and then as a kid in another it clears things up quite a bit.
These two were a pretty nice introduction to Yennifer, I didn't realize she had such a sad backstory. Her little fuck you to the Brotherhood at the end of episode 3, was a nice moment for her. She's kind of a badass.
Was that the same actress before and after her transformation? I know all of facial deformaties and hump were makeup, but I still couldn't tell for sure.
I also got to hear Toss a Coin to Your Witcher, and I can see why it took off the way it did. Do we see Jaskier again after episode 2? He was really funny. Is there a in story reason for why the call him that instead of Dandelion?
They have some great creature designs in this.

 

[JD]

Watched episode 4.
Wow, things don't seem to have gone very well for Yennifer. I was pretty shocked when she portaled away and left the Queen with the baby. So why did the baby die? Was it because of Yennifer's magic, or did the assassin kill it?
The stuff at the banquet ended up being a lot more important than I expected when it started. I was wondering why Calenthe sent Ciri to Geralt of all people, so it was nice to get the story behind all of that here.
The stuff with Dryads was good too, but didn't really stand out as much as the other two storylines.

 

[fireproof78]

I would have recommended trying The Witcher. It certainly wasn't a series I would have picked out on my own, and it was rough getting through it (the baby stuff makes me cringe so much).

It's an interesting tale to be sure. Lots of interesting bits and twists.

 

[Greg Cox]

Have you checked out THE OUTPOST yet?

Speaking of medieval fantasy shows . . . . .

(Apparently they're shooting season three in Serbia as we speak.)

 

[JD]

I watched Season 2 and enjoyed it a lot. I haven't seen Season 1 yet, but it's on IMDBTV so I plan on watching it that way eventually.
I posted quite a bit in the thread for it while Season 2 was airing, and I'm pretty sure you were in there too.

 

[Anwar]

Have you checked out THE OUTPOST yet?

Speaking of medieval fantasy shows . . . . .

(Apparently they're shooting season three in Serbia as we speak.)

Is it available on any streaming services?

I'm not ashamed to admit the main draw for me is how drop dead gorgeous Talon is.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I visited my parents yesterday so inadvertently ended up binging the last few episodes of Witcher because they happened to be watching and had it on while I was there. It definitely seemed to have some Game of Thrones vibes, I kept labeling people Sansa and the Night King and so on (allegedly) trying to be funny. I was surprised at how little Geralt there was in those episodes, I only played some of the first game but I'm pretty sure he's the POV character.

 

[JD]

Is it available on any streaming services?

I'm not ashamed to admit the main draw for me is how drop dead gorgeous Talon is.

It's on IMDB TV, which is included for free as part of Amazon Prime. It does have commercials though, so if that's deal breaker for you you're out of luck.

 

[JD]

Episode 5: Bottled Appetites -
I'm sad to see Mousack go, I liked him. At least with the different time periods being covered there's a chance he could pop back up. So is the black witch with the Nilfgaardians Fringella?
Geralt and Yennifer's first encounter definitely did not play out how I expected. Geralt being the one with the Jinn's wishes instead of Jaskier was a nice little twist.
I'm curious what it's going to take for Ciri to realize the shapeshifter is not really Mousack.

 

[JD]

I finished up it up over the last few days.
The episode with the dragons was pretty good. I liked the dwarves and the dragon was pretty cool, and it gave us nice relationship stuff for Geralt and Yennifer.
The last two episodes were really good. The reveal that Geralt was actually in Cintra during the attack, and that him and Ciri were so close was a big surprise.
The stuff Yennifer back at Aretuza gave us some nice character development for her.
The big with the Nilfgaardians and the mages was really cool.
I figured out pretty quickly that the guy who saved Geralt was the husband of the woman who found Ciri so that wasn't to much of a surprise.
I was a little surprised it took them all season for Ciri and Geralt took all season to meet up, I had expected to get at least a few episodes with them together.
I really enjoyed the whole season, it had a great cast with a good story, and some really cool monsters and action scenes.
How long ago did they film? Earlier I had looked up Freya Allen, the actress who plays Ciri, on Wikipedia, and it says she's 19 now, but she looks a lot younger in the show. Was it filmed a while back, or did they just manage to make her look a younger?

 

[theenglish]

I read the first three books before starting The Witcher series and I'm glad I did. The first season did a great job interpreting and presenting the short stories that are linked to the sage that begins in Blood of Elves. The changes really made a positive impact on my visualization of the Witcher's world. I am not sure if the following books flesh out some of the details not directly seen in the books, but I don't really care. Great series all around.

I am going to try Cursed next but I know nothing about it other than the Netflix preview that came up when I finished the Witcher series. I know it is based on a recently published novel by Thomas Wheeler and Frank Miller, but it has very mixed reader reviews on Goodreads.