The Witcher Will Wrap Up With Season Five

The first season of The Witcher was a huge hit for Netflix, to the point that they started promoting it alongside Stranger Things and Squid Game as one of their “icons.” Not everything works out that way, though.

Every subsequent season has been a downgrade in quality from the last, and the spinoffs haven’t been any good at all (imagine getting Michelle Yeoh and wasting her). Netflix once talked about this show going on for at least a decade. But with declining interest, and the inevitable, unpopular replacement of Henry Cavill with Liam Hemsworth, it seems the writing is on the wall. The streamer has just renewed the show for Season 5, but this will be its last.

Regarding Season Four, which is now in production: “After the shocking, Continent-altering events that close out season three, the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other,” says Netflix. “If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire and finding one another again.”

I wasn’t as harsh on Season Three as some others were, but then they pulled a twist I couldn’t stand: they implied Geralt’s adopted daughter Ciri will turn evil. This entire society seems to revolve around Ciri, where she is and what she’s doing. This means if Ciri is evil, that world has no hope. And why would I want to watch Geralt fight his own kid? This is a terrible idea and one I have no interest in watching if they go this route.

Seasons Four and Five of The Witcher are being produced together, but it seems production only recently began and it could be well into 2025 before the story continues.