Geralt and Yennefer enter the big welcome party, which was held to celebrate the upcoming conclave that Yennefer engineered to get the disparate magical forces of the Continent-specifically the sorceresses of Aretuza and the Brotherhood of Sorcerers-united against their foes in the inevitable war. Episode Five, 'The Art of Illusion,' is the closest The Witcherwill likely get to an Ocean's Eleven storyline: a fancy party, a heist, some sexual tension, and lots of narrative backtracking to reveal, bit by bit, what has actually been going on this whole time.īecause we're economical here at Esquire, we won't put you through all that entangled storytelling a second time and will instead present events chronologically.
It's been this way for three seasons, and the closing episode of Season Three, Part One (more episodes are coming in about a month) takes this notion to extremes. Netflix's The Witcher is the kind of show that rewards active audience participation, which is a diplomatic way of saying if you look away from your television for one second while watching this show, when you look back you'll be totally lost.
