Tomorrow 8am GMT I think.
Television The Witcher | Netflix | There are book spoilers here
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Not sure I like the fact that the review embargo doesn't lift until tomorrow 
Yeah, I feel like this only happens when they're bad.Not sure I like the fact that the review embargo doesn't lift until tomorrow
I think it’ll have its moments, but ultimately end up as a run-of-the-mill Netflix show churned out year on year.
There were tons of positive feedback from people who watched several screener episodes a month ago, doesn't mean whole season will be great per se but we will see.Not sure I like the fact that the review embargo doesn't lift until tomorrow
Here are the impressions from screener:
Happy Witcher day! 
Happy Witcher day my friend !Happy Witcher day!
Hope you’re well buddy! Been a while. I’m still working until the 24th. Then I have a couple of weeks off, which is probably when I’ll give this a go! Unless I just binge it all this weekend
I'm doing well. Also working until the 24th. Have holidays from the 25th till the 1st. But I'm not waiting!!Hope you’re well buddy! Been a while. I’m still working until the 24th. Then I have a couple of weeks off, which is probably when I’ll give this a go! Unless I just binge it all this weekend
Oh, it’s midnight Pacific time... rude.
Any reviews yet?
Got my lube ready, Netflix loading on the projector, the Mrs is pissing off to work. Life is great!
Is it out yet?
16 more minutes
I suppose if nothing else it'll be an enjoyable tits and gorefest. Gotta set low expectations.
Boobs already!
It's online it's online
Probably vag too if you look close enough!
CGI leaves something to be desired, and everything looks too clean so far. Cavill is excellent as expected.
Cavill nailed it so far. Proper silent cnut.
Agree Cavill is excellent! His voice, his movements, the fight scenes! Everything was perfect from him!
Episode 1 started bang average, epic by the end! feckit, probably binge the entire thing today now
Episode 1 started bang average, epic by the end! feckit, probably binge the entire thing today now
It's come!
Me too!
You take your opinions from The Guardian? Let's say The Guardian gave it 5* and it was the same show, would you then say it's the best thing ever?
are we expecting this to be fairly mindless or get into the lore quite a bit?
No. It would help me decide on whether to watch something.
They gave Cats 1 star so I'm not going to watch that, for example.
I get that, but you said 3* = enjoyable fluff, what if they are wrong? What if it's not enjoyable?
I don't think basing a conclusion on a review is a good thing.
I wasn't basing a conclusion on it, maybe it was just worded wrong. I'll obviously watch it and see for myself. If the reviews were all 1* though then I wouldn't watch it. If they were all 5* I'd be much more inclined to watch it.
EDIT: Also worth noting that The Verge gave it a much better review and GameSpot gave it a much worse review so it does seem like the sort of show you need to watch for yourself before forming too many opinions.
They reckon the reviews are all over the place, 5 stars from those who have read the books, 1 star from massive GoT fanboys, and 3 stars from everyone else.
Ugh, something in ep 2 looks worse than ET did. That's ridiculous with the budget.
I'm sorry I was just noting that the statement is a bit hasty to me, I just hope this will be enjoyable once I get the chance to watch it.
The sword play is fecking amazing.
People can't wait to hate this.
It's kind of worrying, I don't want to get too into it for it not to get a sequel because of bad critical reception ie.
Season 2 has already got the go ahead.
After watching 2 episodes, it has some good bits and some bad bits, some amazing bits and some terrible bits. It's a first season though so can't complain too much.
I imagine it'll be a mix of people who love the books and hate it for not following them to a tee and people who've never read the books and enjoy it.
GoT was basically scene for scene from the books early on which is why everyone was loving it but supposedly that's much more difficult to do on screen with The Witcher novels.
Netflix only greenlight the second season in advance to generate hype and if the show isn't successful they'll do massive delays between season's to try kill it off.
First episode done, I'm so hyped that I'd enjoy anything, but I love it!