This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy Special Collector’s Issue, which is available for international pre-order online at SciFi2021.com and available nationwide on newsstands now. The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich previews Season 2 and discusses fans’ critiques. Andrzej Sapkowski’s stories swing from paranormal horror to dark comedy. How do you strike a balance onscreen? Lauren Schmidt Hissrich: In Season 1, especially with all of those short stories from Sapkowski’s The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny, we embraced different tones. Going into Season 2, it had been my intention to keep doing it that way, let it go with the flow, but the stories are a little bit more intense. We lean into those darker elements, and I think they perfectly suit the stories. The only thing we really tried to be consistent about was keeping [Geralt’s] sense of humor. In Season 2, we get to meet Geralt’s Witcher brothers.
- 10/2/2021
- TV Insider
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