It hasn’t even aired, yet somehow Netflix has already ordered a second season for The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill. They seem to think they have a Game of Thrones-tier success story on their hands, even though the series has yet to prove its worth. It’s like a billboard of propaganda where the paint hasn’t even dried that’s advertising a vasectomy outside of a doctor’s office where you get a circumcision.
In any case, New Zealand outlet Gameplanet is reporting that the upcoming Netflix series set to debut its first season this December has already been picked up for a second season on Netflix.
Showrunner Lauren Hissrich told the press…
“I’m so thrilled that before fans have even seen our first season, we are able to confirm that we’ll be returning to The Continent again to continue telling the stories of Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri,”
“I could not be more proud of what the amazing cast and crew of The Witcher have accomplished, and can’t wait for the world to dig in and enjoy these stories with us.”
The site notes that production on the second season will get underway in early 2020 with an air date expected in 2021.
Hissrich has repeatedly said that the show won’t be based on CD Projekt Red’s multi-million selling video game franchise, but will instead draw inspiration from Andrzej Sapkowski book series, but even then it would take a broad stretch of the imagination and a blind man to take that as any figment of truth.
The reality is that Netflix co-opted Sapkowski’s series and are using it to push the “diversity” agenda, race-swapping key characters and deforming the classic Polish folklore to fit Netflix’s distorted concept of “multiculturalism”.
Fans of the games and fans of Sapkowski’s books have already disavowed the Netflix abomination before it’s aired, but the streaming network seems to be banking on building some sort of audience to hook them for a second season. It would seem like while the company is bleeding money they would avoid throwing more money away on a show that hasn’t proven itself to be profitable yet, but if the idea is to sell agitprop instead of entertainment then profit is the last thing on their on mind.
(Thanks for the news tip Guardian EvaUnit02)