The premiere of ‘The Witcher: The Origin of Blood’ this past Sunday in Netflix it seemed like the perfect opportunity to reinvigorate the franchise. The harsh blow received by the announcement of the march from henry cavill After season 3 of ‘The Witcher’ it created certain doubts about its future, which have now increased due to the feeling that everyone is hating this prequel to the adventures of Geralt de Rivia.
You only need to take a look at the reception it has had on Rotten Tomatoes to make it clear that ‘The Witcher: The Origin of Blood’ has made critics and the public agree on how bad it is: only 38% of the evaluations in the specialized press are positive, a percentage that drops even more in the case of the public, where it barely reaches 8%.
That supposes a stark contrast to ‘The Witcher’, which marks 81% positive ratings from critics and 75% good opinions from the public. Obviously, this only reflects the opinion of part of the public, but things don’t change much if we go to other specialized websites either.
For example, ‘The Origin of Blood’ has an average score of 4.3 from Filmaffinity users and a very poor 0.6 out of 10 from Metacritic -there the criticism is somewhat kinder, but there is also suspense with a 47 about 100-. not to mention the 4 out of 10 on IMDb. The consensus is clear, and it is negative.
A different thing is that ‘The Witcher: The Origin of Blood’ ends up being a success or not. There it plays against him that there are only 4 episodes by the metric that Netflix uses, although for now it has debuted at number 1 in several countries, including the United States. Of course, in others he has not been so lucky and we are not talking about a precisely cheap series…
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