Will ‘The Witcher’ Season 4 Pick Up the Pace? Don’t Count on It.

How do you change a witcher’s face? That’s the big question the end of Season 3 of The Witcher left us. With Henry Cavill stepping away from the Netflix fantasy, how Liam Hemsworth, Cavill’s replacement, will be integrated into the role of Geralt of Rivia is perplexing fans. But with Geralt, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and Ciri (Freya Allan) separated once again, the Continent at war, and The Wild Hunt looming, there’s so much more to ponder besides how Hemsworth looks in a white wig.

With Season 3 drawing from author Andrzej Sapkowski’s second The Witcher novel, Time of Contempt, it’s likely that Season 4 will draw much from the next book in the series, Baptism of Fire.

How closely Season 4 keeps to the source material, however, is uncertain, given the show already has a reputation for disregarding The Witcher books, to fans’ frustration. These are criticisms that executive producer Tomek Baginski doesn’t take too kindly. In recent comments to Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, he suggested that while there are many reasons for simplifying the plot of the books for screen, the principal reason is so that Americans and young people who have grown up on TikTok can digest it. He went on to criticize viewers, saying (per Redanian Intelligence’s translation), “Dear children, what you do to yourself makes you less resilient for longer content, for long and complicated chains of cause and effect.”

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