The Witcher Season 2 Review : It's bigger and better with a coherent plot

STORY: 'The Witcher' season two begins right after where series one had ended. To ensure the safety of Ciri (Freya Allan), Geralt takes her to Kaer Morhan, the mountain base for the witchers. This also gives time to Geralt (Henry Cavill) to plot his future moves. Meanwhile, Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) has now become a prisoner of war surrounded by personal grief.

REVIEW: The second season of 'The Witcher' is bigger and better and it can safely be said that this time it packs a punch and remains thoroughly entertaining. The action-packed season has been worth the wait as the pandemic played spoilsport in the filming of the season and therefore the gap between the seasons turned out to be longer than expected. One reason this season might just appeal to you could be because Game of Thrones is nowhere around (It was there when season one had landed) and thus The Witcher serves as a perfect replacement for the series that took the world by storm. That said, The Witchers comes nowhere close to Games of Thrones and can only be described as imperfect. Keeping the imperfection aside, this is a pacy season where events happen thick and fast and perfectly fits the tenets of a binge series.

This season also ties some loose ends and answers what viewers had been trying to figure out all along. This series explains the very existence of witchers through the appearance of new monsters and Ciri’s powers. Season two shows an entirely different facet of Geralt – that of a caring person. Jaskier, the bard too, undergoes a transformation and is now no more a happy-go-lucky person. Apart from polishing and refining old characters, this season also introduces new characters. Vesemir, Geralt’s mentor, Rience, a mage assigned to find Ciri, and Nenneke, a priestess makes their entry in this season.

The complexity of the previous season is missing here and this only adds to the fun. The linear format of the story helps and thus the series looks far more focussed and structured. In a nutshell, this season of The Witcher basically gives all the answers that you had wanted to know during season one.

If you have a keen eye, you can’t miss the sequences when it pokes fun at the previous season. The proceedings of this season are far more engaging and keep you hooked sans any perplexity. One aspect that viewers will definitely miss in this season is the comic relief that Jaskier provided in the last season. It's missing and you miss it sorely. The political machinations too are absent and these two aspects do take a toll on the series.

The special effects this time are far superior and the battle scenes have been filmed at an extravagant scale. One word of caution, the monsters this time look real and menacing. The second season of 'The Witcher' is fun, coherent and entertaining.