The Witcher
I watched the first season of The Witcher on Netflix. It wasn't as good as advertised. The CGI was lousy and a let down after how good the CGI was on Game of Thrones which it apes. The acting of the three principle characters was weak. Yennefer had so much eye make up on she looked like a whore and Geralt's voice was artificially repitched to sound growly like Christian Bale's Batman. There were numerous points in the story that didn't make sense where things didn't follow naturally after another. The worst part was about a half an hour that takes place during a court ball scene and they have a mass sword fight, then they pause and nobody has been harmed even though we just saw a dozen people mortally wounded. Then the queen attempts to murder someone only to be stopped by her daughter manifesting some ridiculous magic power they never knew she had. And the filming all around these ridiculous scenes was quite amateurish where they'd shoot them like only three or four people were on the set instead of one hundred.
Besides all that they told the story out of chronological sequence so things were very confusing. Also, the characters had powers in some scenes which would have made their predicaments much easier in others had they used them. They teleport constantly, except for when they really need to. It was frustrating watching the characters get buffed and debuffed with plot armor being randomly applied or stripped.
There's a black elf character which befriends the girl and becomes her helper. She gets a lot of people to help her for no apparent reason. But anyway her relationship with this elf is downright weird. He acts mute at first but later, when he saves her life the first time he starts talking for no reason. He has every reason to hate her since her mother slaughtered his entire family but he attaches himself to her for no reason. He follows her and protects her. We're never given a motivation for him to do any of this or really a backstory about why he's there, or what he'd be doing if she never came along. He has no motivation of his own as a character. He saves her life a few times and then breaks it off with her and leaves the story.
Meanwhile, Geralt falls in love really fast. He falls for this one woman he sleeps with in a forest and then almost immediately kills and this haunts him for years. Then he binds himself with magic to this bitch sorceress who'd used him. None of this show makes sense.
P.S. During the dragon hunt they flip sides at the drop of a hat to fight for the dragon and against the hunters. Also, Yennefer suddenly becomes a great swordfighter though we've never had a hint she can do this, and even though Gerault sometimes uses combat magic this is one of the numerous times where he doesn't.