Witcher Season 2 is Trash

CONTAINS SPOILERS

Zarna Joshi
24 min readFeb 23, 2022

*All the Trigger Warnings*

Geralt played by pretty boy Henry Cavill standing in smart looking black armor with a metal breastplate and interlinked shoulder pads. His Witcher medallion is prominently featured on his chest. His iconic white hair is half tied at the back of his head with the some locks attractively loose and blowing around his face. He’s standing in a dark room with large stone pillars behind him. Because Geralt is a “pillar” of justice, obviously.
Screenshot Geralt in The Witcher season 2 looking cocky.

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To be clear I have not read the books nor have I played the games. Therefore, my critique is purely regarding the series adaptation just released.

Also to be clear, for me, the descriptive word “trash” applied to any person or artistic work indicates a reaction of pain and betrayal. Therefore, I don’t use that word lightly. I tend to reserve it for leftists who pretend to care about dismantling the empire but are actually imperialist patriarchs. So the fact that I’m using the word “trash” with regards to a TV show indicates how genuinely disgusted I am with season 2 of The Witcher.

The reason why I feel so betrayed is because all the nuances and subtleties in storytelling that made season 1 interesting and watchable and full of potential were sorely lacking in season 2. Season 1 did have objectionable content, but it was no way near as offensive as season 2 was because it had nuances and subtleties that had the potential to become anti-patriarchy messages. All of that was utterly destroyed by season 2 and it…

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Zarna Joshi

Writer, organizer, spiritual activist, anti-imperialist, decolonizing smasher of the patriarchy, zarnajoshi.com, zarnajoshi.com/blog