The Witcher season 2 is coming to Netflix in the final months of 2021

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

A few weeks ago, Netflix released a teaser trailer for the second season of their series The Witcher to celebrate the fact that production on the season had wrapped. They didn't reveal a release date for the season at that time, and they still haven't – but now we know that it's going to be reaching the streaming service in the final months of this year.

While speaking with investors, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos mentioned that new seasons of You, Cobra Kai, and The Witcher will be available to watch sometime in October, November, or December. He said, 

What happened in the first part of this year was that a lot of the projects that we’d hoped to come out earlier did get pushed because of the post-production delays and Covid delays and we think we’ll get back to a much steadier state in the back half of the year, certainly in Q4 where we have the returning seasons of some of our most popular shows like The Witcher and You and Cobra Kai as well as some big tentpole movies that came to market a little slower than we’d hoped like Red Notice and Escape From Spiderhead."

So we've only just started the second quarter of 2021, and we know there's some good stuff to look forward to in the fourth quarter.

Inspired by a series of novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia. The show is an 

epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil is not easily identified.

Season 2 has the following synopsis: 

Convinced Yennefer’s life was lost at the Battle of Sodden, Geralt of Rivia brings Princess Cirilla to the safest place he knows, his childhood home of Kaer Morhen. While the Continent’s kings, elves, humans and demons strive for supremacy outside its walls, he must protect the girl from something far more dangerous: the mysterious power she possesses inside.

Cavill is joined in the cast by fellow returning cast members Freya Allan as Princess Cirilla, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg, Joey Batey as Jaskier, MyAnna Buring as Tissaia, Tom Canton as Filavandrel, Lilly Cooper as Murta, Jeremy Crawford as Yarpen Zigrin, Eamon Farren as Cahir, Mahesh Jadu as Vilgefortz, Terrence Maynard as Artorius, Lars Mikkelsen as Stregobor, Mimi Ndiweni as Fringilla Vigo, Royce Pierreson as Istredd, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara, Anna Shaffer as Triss Merigold, and Therica Wilson Read as Sabrina.

New cast members in season 2 include Carmel Laniado as a smart, sadistic teenager named Violet; Mecia Simson as Elven sorceress Francesca; Aisha Fabienne Ross as the sorceress Lydia; Agnes Born as Vereena, who is fragile and vulnerable on the outside but is capable of brutal violence; Kim Bodnia as Geralt's mentor Vesemir; Kristofer Hivju as Nivellen, "a man cursed as a result of a terrible sin"; Paul Bullion as witcher Lambert; Yasen Atour as witcher Coen; Graham McTavish as Dijkstra, a master spy and head of special forces for the kingdom of Redania; Cassie Clare as  Philippa Eilhart, an advisor to Redania's King Vizimir II and leader of the Lodge of Sorceresses; Adjoa Andoh as Melitele priestess Nenneke; Liz Carr as Fenn, a partner in a law firm and detective agency in Dorian; Simon Callow as Fenn's partner Codringher; Chris Fulton as the mage Rience; Basil Eidenbenz as witcher Eskel, a friend from Geralt's youth; and Kevin Doyle as Ba'lian, a character who has apparently not been featured in any of the Witcher novels or video games.