in a bathtub in a scene straight from the video game ? That carries into Season 2, even with the addition of key figures and locations from the books; a determined-to-fight Princess Ciri ; a newly talkative hero, Geralt of Rivia; the now low-spirited and alone bard Jaskier ; and the increasingly desperate mage Yennefer . That’s growth, says Hissrich.“You know, we set up all of these sort of roles, how characters relate to one another.
So it’s no stretch to think that the choice of monsters for this season might be fan-influenced too. Including a fan favorite, the leshen. “Now, there are two versions of the leshy in our show. And that was very important to us, because our season is really about the mutations of monsters, and that the monsters on the continent are shifting and changing,” said Hissrich. “That’s obviously Geralt’s big mystery for the season … So we wanted to make sure that we saw two different types of leshies, so that we could understand that the monsters are changing in front of our face too.
“It’s a fairly fantastic idea for a creature,” said production designer Andrew Laws. “This one was really drawn out of how we tell the story of this character being subsumed by this sort of infection or this takeover, or mutation.”We surveyed The Times TV team to come up with a list of the 75 best TV shows you can watch on Netflix. As in, tonight.