The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich spoke with CinemaBlend and shared how releasing on Netflix shaped the storytelling in Season 1 differently than if it had aired on a weekly basis, a la Game of Thrones.
The series is a fantasy of unprecedented scale for the streamer, and there’s a reason why early comparisons were to Game of Thrones rather than to Stranger Things or Daredevil.
Netflix got into the fantasy saga game with the premiere of The Witcher, based on a series of novels and short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski and starring characters already popular with gamers (and also Henry Cavill).