The Witcher has always been a series that has worked hard to recapture the magic of the first season. Season 2 received lackluster reviews, and the hope of capturing lightning in a bottle again seemed all but hopeless when star Henry Cavill was replaced with Liam Hemsworth. But hope may have come in the strangest form: an animated spinoff movie that takes The Witcher back to its roots.
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, now streaming on Netflix, takes a short story from the Witcher books and adapts it into a luscious, standalone adventure that rewrites the ending of its source material — and a classic fairytale.
