By Season 2 of Netflix’s The Witcher starring Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan has already come and we are still dishing on new tidbits as well as new additional content.
One type of such content are the production stills. Most we have already seen, but there are plenty of new ones here with new characters. Take a look at their Hi-Res versions as we have compiled them episode by episode.
Episode 1: A Grain of Truth
Synopsis: Assuming Yennefer was killed at the Battle of Sodden Hill, Geralt and Ciri embark on the long journey to Kaer Morhen, home of the Witchers. When they stop for the night with Nivellen, they discover a curse has been bestowed on Geralt’s old comrade — and the truth isn’t all he’s hiding.
Episode 2: Kaer Morhen
Synopsis: Ciri settles into her new home with the Witchers at Kaer Morhen, but their safe haven is infiltrated by a new breed of monster. Meanwhile, Yennefer and Fringilla are captured by elves, but their lives are spared when Francesca, the new leader of the elves, discovers they share the same mysterious dream.
Episode 3: What Is Lost
Synopsis: Suspicious that this new breed of monster has a connection to Ciri, Geralt takes the girl into the woods to track and kill the beast, but discovers another far more aggressive creature to overcome. Yennefer returns to Aretuza where she is accused of treachery and forced to prove her allegiance to the North.
Episode 4: Redanian Intelligence
Synopsis: Triss Merigold arrives at Kaer Morhen and uncovers a link between the new monsters arriving on the Continent and monoliths. Vesemir discovers Ciri could hold the key to the Witchers’ fates, and Yennefer reunites with Jaskier, who agrees to assist on her mission but becomes ensnared in his own misfortune.
Episode 5: Turn Your Back
Synopsis: Geralt teams with Istredd on a journey to the fallen monolith on the outskirts of Cintra, Yennefer forges a desperate deal with a familiar demon, and Triss discovers the true identity of Geralt’s child surprise.
Episode 6: Dear Friend
Synopsis: Geralt resolves to take Ciri to the sanctuary of the Temple of Melitele but their visit is cut short when a bounty hunter arrives to take the princess hostage. Yennefer and Geralt’s paths cross and the sorceress escapes with Ciri under her wing.
Episode 7: Voleth Meir
Synopsis: Francesca sets out on a deadly quest for revenge while Fringilla spills blood to retain her power. When Yennefer has a change of heart, Geralt trades information for her betrayal. But it may be too late.
Episode 8: Family
Synopsis: Geralt faces off with a demon targeting his nearest and dearest while the most powerful players of the Continent ramp up their pursuit of Ciri.
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Why, o why does season two deviate so immensely from the books? I hardly recognize anything. I would have really enjoyed it had it been closer to the novels but the showrunners had other ideas. They have destroyed a narrative territory that I really had come to like in the cinematographic domain for me. Thanks for nothing.
Viewers, take a look at the 5th picture from episode 4. What do you see? Right, Jaskier performing. By the way, I did not like the song very much, or Joey Batey’s singing. But that is another story. What else do you see? A violoncello. It is true that the violoncello is a fairly old string string instrument to have survived without major changes into its contemporary form, but I still think that it is a far too modern instrument for the kind of medieval epoch that is supposed to be depicted in the story. The violoncello came up in the first half of the 16th century. The Witcher world is staged sometime in a fictional 13th or 14th century.