The Witcher season 2

 Netflix unleashed the second season of the adventures of Geralt of Rivia upon us half december, so Noshi and me sat down and in the course of 3 days went through the whole 8 episode story.

And it was, well, different from the first for sure, in that it took away the timejumps and "monster of the week" approach for an overarching storyline.

And to be honest, I didn`t really think it worked that well as the sometimes confusing, but in the end greatly woven together, approach of season 1.

The series picks up immediatly after the battle of the first series, with Geralt searches for the presumably dead Yennefer.  But she is alive and captured by elves, who are under way to cement an alliance with Nilfgard in the captured city of Cintra.

Geralt then takes his protegee, Ciri, north to the fortress of Kaer Morhen, wintercamp of the Witchers, and his old master Vesemir.  Ciri starts training to become a Witcher herself in the camp now.  In the meantime, an escaped Yennefer arrives in Aretuza, where Stregebor tries to frame her in order to cement his own position on the ruling council, and uncover the fact that by using all her powers in the final battle, she is now stranded without any magic.

The Witchers learn during that time that Ciri possesses the blood of the Elders, and that it can be used perhaps to create new Witchers at last.  Assassins are send after her and Geralt while they learn more everyday about their powers, and the lure of the witch in the woods, Voleth Meir.  But it turns out to all be one big ruse, as all the witch wants is Ciri to become her vessel and spread pain across the world again, in what seemed to be a new Conjunction.  Geralt and Yennefer barely manage to contain her in the end, but as Niflgard betrays the elves unknowingly to have them do their dirty work, war is about to errupt across the whole plain of existence...

So as I said, not a bad season at all, and with a good overarching story.  But due to the other structure then year one, it felt like a rather different series to be honest.  But never the less, let's hope season 3 comes rather smoothly and we can see how it all unfolds!