The Witcher season 3’s big twist was part Met Gala, part Red Wedding, and all details
Geralt of Rivia, revered monster slayer and banquet-booer, is annoyed. He remains convinced the sorcerers and sorceresses at the ball are hellbent on not-so-shyly making fun of him, a mutant and a freak. Still, he is able to recognize the tension he senses comes from something more — something far more sinister.
The music changes and Yennefer of Vengerberg fixes her violet eyes on his. Apparently, it’s time to dance the melange.
“What’s the melange?” Geralt grunts.
“It’s a dance,” answers Yennefer. “It’s not optional.”
“Even for me?”
“Especially for you.”
After a brief bout of dancing, the director yells “Cut!” as Henry Cavill and Anya Chalotra break character, laughing among themselves even after sharing the same joke several times in quick succession. They are currently in what has to be one of the largest and most expensive sets The Witcherhas used to date, three stories high and with enough support on the second floor to hold a crane for certain camera angles. Parts of it will be irreparably destroyed in the action to come.
Season 3 of Netflix’s The Witcheris faced with the Herculean task of adapting the events that occur at the Isle of Thanedd in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Time of Contempt, the second novel in the Witchersaga. It is no exaggeration to suggest that this is the closest The Witcher will come to Game of Thrones’now-iconic Red Wedding.
By the same token, it is no exaggeration to suggest that this is the most crucial and pivotal moment Netflix has adapted yet.
Prior to our tour in July of the series’ now-permanent home in Longcross, a studio roughly 25 miles outside of London, we are treated to a brief sizzle reel that disproportionately focuses on the season’s big battle. It is at all times clear that
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