The Witcher season 4
Netflix
I simply completed The Witcher season 4, which was…truly not horrible, a lot to my shock. However it’s fairly clear from Netflix’s US High 10 listing that the present is failing to seize all that many viewers with its return.
Why? Nicely, regardless that we don’t have precise figures, we are able to see that issues will not be nice. The Witcher season 4 has been caught at #2 for days, which may be okay, however the present it’s behind is No person Desires This season 2, a romantic comedy that has been #1 for ten straight days, and The Witcher, regardless of being a high-budgeted blockbuster sequence, can not unseat it.
Moreover, we’ve got numbers from the week of 10/20 to 10/26, the place No person Desires This launched on October 23. There, it solely had 8.6 million views for half the week, not that far above The Diplomat season 3. Now, nearly two weeks after launch, it’s unlikely these numbers jumped all that considerably by way of each day viewing, and The Witcher season 4 is under even that. Not good.
The Witcher season 4
Netflix prime 10
Not good, however…it doesn’t truly matter for renewal of The Witcher season 5. Even when viewership isn’t nice, which appears to be the case, season 5 has not solely been greenlit already, it’s actually already finishing filming, as seasons 4 and 5 filmed again to again after the Hemsworth-Cavill change.
Just like how Amazon appears pot-committed to a five-season run of Rings of Energy, regardless of flagging viewership, The Witcher goes to complete its storyline hell or excessive water. It’s, nevertheless, seemingly not going to supply any extra spin-offs. It’s had two good anime initiatives, one horrible live-action venture and now a “Rats” spin-off film that launched similtaneously season 4 and has didn’t chart on Netflix’s prime 10 film listing in any respect.
All of this went sideways fairly shortly, even earlier than Henry Cavill left, and the writing declined in high quality after the stellar season 1. It additionally didn’t assist that there was a greater than two-year wait between seasons 3 and 4, after season 3 was closely criticized in order that followers misplaced curiosity. One silver lining right here is that season 5 must be out in a yr or so because of the back-to-back filming. Once more, I don’t truly suppose season 4 was terrible (the final two episodes are very strong), and I do need to see it by way of. However this whole venture has been a miss, and we are able to see that by way of viewership of season 4 proper now, or the dearth thereof.
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