Genre: Fantasy television, Drama, Action fiction, Adventure fiction
Created by Declan de Barra & Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Based on The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
Starring: Sophia Brown, Michelle Yeoh, Minnie Driver, Laurence O’Fuarain, Lenny Henry, Mirren Mack, Nathaniel Curtis & Dylan Moran.
Composer: Bear McCreary
Executive Producers: Declan de Barra, Sean Daniel, Jason Brown, Tomasz Bagiński, Jarosław Sawko, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, Matt O’Toole
Production Company: Hivemind, Platige Image
Distributor: Netflix
Plot: Set more than a thousand years before the world of “The Witcher,” seven outcasts in the elf world unite in a quest against an unstoppable power.
I was keen to check this one out during Christmas day.
The Witcher Blood Quest MiniSeries was hit and miss.
Pros: It moved in a quicker pace that helped me have a better watchful viewing experience. At times the series felt like the magnificent seven meets lords of the rings. I enjoyed all the seven misfits of characters. Lenny Henry did fine within the role he was playing and the bloody action was at times ”Awesome”.
Cons: This series does skip-through most of the storytelling of this show that they didn’t deliver. I couldn’t get into the characters. Mirren Mack was miscast as Merwyn in my opinion and I wasn’t able to grasp all that’s happening is relayed into the law of the Witcher in just four episodes.
Casts & characters:
Main:
- Sophia Brown as Éile, a warrior of the Queen’s guard who leaves to become a traveling musician
- Minee Mais as young Éile
- Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, a man born into a clan of warriors sworn to protect a king, but instead sets out in need of vengeance
- Mirren Mack as Merwyn
- Jacob Collins-Levy as Eredin
- Joey Batey as Jaskier
- Zach Wyatt as Syndril
- Lizzie Annis as Zacaré
- Huw Novelli as Callan “Brother Death”
- Francesca Mills as Meldof
- Amy Murray as Fenrik
- Minnie Driver as Seanchai
- Michelle Yeoh as Scian, the last member of a nomadic tribe of sword-elves on a mission to retrieve a blade stolen from her people[3]
- Lenny Henry as Chief Druid Balor
- Dylan Moran as Uthrok One-Nut
Supporting:
- Mark Rowley as Alvatir
- Hiftu Quasem as Light (voice)
- Ella Schrey-Yeats as Ithlinne
- Kim Adis as Ket
- Kerri Quinn as Aevenien
- Karlina Grace-Paseda as Cethlenn
- Shanika Ocean as young Cethlenn
- Tomisin Ajani as Captain Olyf
- Samuel Blenkin as Avallac’h
- Nathaniel Curtis as Brían
- Aidan O’Callaghan as Kareg
- Zachary Hart as Leifur
- Hebe Beardsall as Catrin
I still recommend this series to anyone who brought or got stuff related to The Witcher.
Rating: 5 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe.