Han Kwang-Il knows what fans want. Audiences watch “The Witcher” because we want to see our hero go on a colorful quest, perhaps while fighting monsters, not for the dreary goings-ons of medieval life. Yet, the 2019 series “The Witcher” was heavy on the goings-ons, with only one bright spot in the entire show: Henry Cavill’s blonde wig. Kwang knows where that show went wrong, and offers a spectacle drenched in action, adventure, apologue and atmosphere.

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It looks like Netflix are going all-in on building their “The Witcher” franchise, before production on the second season has even warmed up the streaming service has already announced an animated tie-in film from the animators behind “The Legend of Korra”, and today announced that it’s doubling down with a prequel series: “The Witcher: Blood Origin.” A six-part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the hit Netflix series, “The Witcher”, “Blood Origin” will go to an elven world 1200 years before the main series, to tell the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

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