Jul 09 2023 150 mins
We're back in the continent for our Witcher Season 2 Podcast as we discuss the first four episodes in full spoiler filled detail.
Spoilers for The Witcher Season 2 Episodes 1 - 4. In this Podcast we discuss the first four episodes of The Witcher Season 2.
Based on the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski and the game series "The Witcher" from CD Projekt Red
Showrunner and Lead Writer: Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich
Episode 1 - A Grain of Truth
Written by Declan De Barra With Staff Writer: Matthew D'Ambrosio and directed by Stephen Surjik
Synopsis: Following the battle of Sodden Hill, Geralt and Cirilla are unable to find Yennefer. When her former mentor Tissaia informs them she believes the powerful mage died when she defeated the attacking Nilfgaardians, they travel across the continent to find a safe place for Ciri. On the path they take refuge with an old friend of Geralt the aristocratic Nivellen. Since the last time they met Nivellen has been punished by a mage and transformed into a dangerous beast. He is a welcoming presence but Geralt can’t help but think he’s hiding something. When Ciri discovers a vampire-like creature called a bruxa, Nivellen tries to stop The Witcher from killing her. But Geralt discovers that Nivellen has been feeding the bruxa as she is the only one who has kept him company since his transformation. Furthermore Nivellen’s punishment was dealt out because he raped the leader of the spider temple. Geralt and Ciri dispatch the demonic bruxa. With his love dead Nivellen returns to his human form as Geralt and Ciri leave him to wallow in his grief and solitude.
Episode 2 - Kaer Morhen
Written by Beau DeMayo With Staff Writer: Matthew D'Ambrosio and directed by Stephen Surjik
Geralt takes Ciri to the safest place he knows on the Continent, the home of the Witchers, Kaer Morhen. Geralt happily reunites with his brotherhood as they settle in for the winter. A young Witcher Eskel returns late after a difficult battle with a forest creature called a Leshy. But despite his claims Eskel didn’t defeat the leshy. He’s been infected by it and has been transformed into a leshy hybrid. The Witchers try to capture the new beast and save Eskel but when it attacks Vesemir, Geralt is forced to kill it and the young Witcher inside. He agrees to train Ciri in the ways of the witcher as even his homeland is unsafe. Meanwhile Yennefer and her captor Fringilla are in turn captured by a large group of elves led by another sorceress Francesca Findabair. She takes Yennefer and Fringilla with her to meet the Deathless Mother who convinces Fringilla and Francesca to form an Elven/Nilfgaardian alliance to take back what was theirs. Yennefer attempts to leave through a portal but discovers her magic is gone.
Episode 3 - What Is Lost
Story by: Clare Higgins
Teleplay by: Clare Higgins and Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich With Staff Writer: Matthew D'Ambrosio
Directed by Sarah O'Gorman
Geralt takes on another Witcher's unfinished business in a kingdom stalked by a ferocious beast. At a brutal cost, Yennefer forges a magical new future.
Episode 4 - Redanian Intelligence
Written by Lauren Schmidt-Hissrich With Staff Writer: Matthew D'Ambrosio and directed by Sarah O'Gorman
Needing help with Ciri’s potential magical abilities, Geralt invites the sorcerer Triss to Kaer Morhen. The mage is unimpressed by the Witchers' ignorance of Ciri’s other needs and takes the young princess under her wing.
Triss also uses her abilities to discover a connection between the new beasts Geralt fought. Both have traces of a mysterious monolith in their bodies. Ciri reveals that in her escape from Cahir after the attack on Cintra her powers knocked over a monolith. She’s afraid she might be the cause of the new mutations. But Vesemir discovers a unique plant at Kaer Morhen growing from the blood Ciri spilled in training. This plant was thought to be extinct, only growing in elder blood, and it could be the key to creation of new Witchers.
Meanwhile, as Yennefer and Cahir try to make their way to safety with the Nilfgaardians of Cintra, Elves are being persecuted across the country. In a small village Yenn runs into an old travelling companion. Still singing songs for the Witcher, bard Jaskir is also running a side job getting elves to freedom.
Dandelion helps Yenn, Cahir and many other elves including Ciri’s former companion Dara aboard a ship bound for Cintra, but as they leave port they hear a great commotion outside but all that’s left in its wake is the bard's broken lute.
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Thank you for joining us for the first part of our Witcher Podcast. We hope you'll come back next week when we discuss the second half of season 1. Derek, Chris and John TV Podcast Industries
Date Recorded: 22/01/2022
Date Published: 25/01/2022
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