Even the ever-stoic Geralt of Rivia is likely to crack a smile with the news that The Witcher Season 2 has become one of Netflix's most-watched series of all time.

The Witcher joined Netflix's esteemed list of most-watched TV shows after Season 2 amassed 462.5 million hours of view-time in the first 28 days. Notably, Season 1 was already on the list with 541 million hours, and other entries include Stranger Things Seasons 2 and 3, You Seasons 2 and 3, 13 Reasons Why Seasons 1 and 2, and Bridgerton Season 1 in the #1 spot.

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The Witcher, based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski, debuted on Netflix in 2019, with Season 1 adapting the two short-story collections The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. Due to the storytelling method used to bridge those tales together, Season 1 employed a non-linear approach that jumped back and forth over the span of a number of years before everything culminated with Geralt and Ciri meeting one another.

Season 2 was based largely on the first core Witcher saga novel, Blood of Elves, and while a number of fan complaints from Season 1 were addressed, there's still quite a discrepancy in the reception of both seasons overall. On Rotten Tomatoes, The Witcher Season 1 earned a 68% critics score and a 91% audience score, while Season 2 earned a 94% Certified Fresh critics score and a 61% audience score. As for the reasoning, fans seem to have taken issue with the creative liberties Season 2 took with the source material, and some felt Geralt took the back seat to other characters in his own story.

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Regardless of scores and complaints, The Witcher is clearly a massive success for Netflix, and the franchise will continue to move forward with not only Season 3 but the prequel series Blood Origin, an anime to accompany Nightmare of the Wolf and a show about the Continent aimed at younger viewers.

"We approximately do a book a season, but we also make sure that the stories from that book are best in that season of our television show," showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich recently explained while discussing The Witcher Season 3. "So sometimes we move those chess pieces around a little bit. There's a big story from Blood of Elves that we're gonna do in Season 3 for instance. Or there was a short story that we couldn't fit in Season 1, so we put it in Season 2. We try to be pretty flexible with that."

Seasons 1 and 2 of The Witcher are streaming on Netflix.

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Source: Netflix, via Variety