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Is 'The Witcher' Too Confusing? Showrunner Shares Her Thoughts

Is 'The Witcher' Too Confusing? Showrunner Shares Her Thoughts

The new television series The Witcher is now streaming on Netflix and there are some potential viewers who are cautious about starting the show because it might be too confusing.

Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has responded to concerns in a new interview.

“The place names aren’t familiar, the people’s names sound weird. Nothing is really familiar,” Lauren told TheWrap. “The most important thing to me in Episode 1 is that you understand what a witcher is, once you have that knowledge, then you can kind of be along for the ride and things that seem confusing in Episode 1, hopefully, by the time you get to Episode 2 and Episode 3, you go ‘Oh my God, I totally understand what these things are now — but I understand why it wasn’t told to me immediately upfront.’ I think the journey is definitely part of that experience.”

The Witcher is based on both a book series and a video game, though Lauren says they are using the books as the main source material.

“For purely logistical reasons, we can’t go page through page of the book and put it on screen,” she said. “We only have eight hours in this first season and we have to pick and choose the best ways to introduce these characters and the stories we tell about them — and also keep in mind what we’re hoping to set up for the future. We’re in a lucky enough position now that we know there is going to be a Season 2 of The Witcher, so some of what we’re doing is laying down the building blocks for future seasons of stories we know we want to tell.”

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