The Witcher Season 2 hunts down 142 million hours viewed in its first 3 days

The Witcher Season 2 is off to a great start after topping 142 million hours viewed within its first three days of release. The Henry Cavill-starring series has quickly become one of Netflix’s flagship franchises by offering fans of fantasy-action fiction what they crave: Cavill is tightly-fitted armor and creative creature designs that look as if they were ripped from the pages of a Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual.

Netflix is betting big on The Witcher after ordering a second anime feature and premiering a trailer for The Witcher: Blood Origin, a live-action prequel series. Blood Origin is set in a pre-colonized world of elves before the Conjunction of Spheres. What is the Conjunction of Spheres, you ask? Well, it’s how monsters and magic – “chaos” – came into the world of The Witcher.

The Witcher: Blood Origin will star Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, who was born into a clan of warriors sworn to protect a King and is now on a quest for redemption; Sophia Brown as Éile, an elite warrior who left her clan to become a nomadic musician; Michelle Yeoh as Scían, the last from a tribe of sword-elves; Lenny Henry as a character named Balor; Mirren Mack as Merwyn; Nathaniel Curtis as Brían; Dylan Moran as Uthrok One-Nut; Jacob Collins Levy as Eredin; Lizzie Annis as Zacaré; Huw Novelli as Callan, a.k.a. “Brother Death”; Francesca Mills as Meldof; Amy Murray as Fenrik; and Zach Wyatt as Syndril.

The Witcher Season 2 stars Henry Cavill as the grim Geralt of Rivia, in a 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 are not easily identified. 

Per Netflix, “Season two will follow Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia who, convinced that Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) died at the gruesome Battle of Sodden, seeks to bring Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) 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, Geralt must protect the girl from something far more dangerous: the mysterious power she possesses inside.”

New cast members in The Witcher Season 2 include Kristofer Hivju as Nivellen, “a man cursed as a result of a terrible sin”; 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; 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.

Have you tuned in for The Witcher Season 2 yet? Are you looking forward to The Witcher: Blood Origin? I was impressed with the first season of the series and am looking forward to exploring the rest of the series. I’m the type of person who could always use more monsters and mayhem in his life, and The Witcher looks to offer that in spades. Let’s sharpen our swords and start venturing into nightmarish territory! What’s the worst that could happen?