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Rollin Bishop

The Witcher really should just embrace being a soap opera

An image from The Witcher season 3

It is fairly common knowledge at this point that Henry Cavill will be hanging up his silver sword and white wig to pass the torch to Liam Hemsworth in Netflix's The Witcher following the show's current season. How, exactly, that happens is unclear, but it increasingly looks like the show is going to lean on the most boring narrative crutch possible instead of simply accepting it's a soap opera.

Basically, while it is not yet definitive, all signs point to Season 4 of Netflix's The Witcher pulling some kind of multiversal shenanigans in order to narratively justify the swap of its leading actor. That's not just me speculating; folks involved with the show have essentially said as much.

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