The Witcher Season 2 Will Focus on Family and Drop Time Skips
Showrunner of The Witcher, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, gave an interview, in which she talks a little more about the second season of the series. The story is to focus primarily on the topic of family.
- Lauren Schmidt Hissrich revealed in an interview that the main theme of the second season of The Witcher will be the family in its broadest sense;
- The series will feature another witchers led by Vesemir, and Geralt will return to Kaer Morhen;
- The showrunner is also planning to give up time skips, which irritated a large part of the audience.
There are some facts one cannot deny. The Netflix's Witcher has conquered the whole world, becoming the most popular TV series in the history of the platform. However, there is also no denying that the first season was a kind of introduction to a larger universe known from Sapkowski's prose. Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich decided to reveal some cards in an interview for The Wrap.
The creator does not hide that she intends to focus on strengthening family ties betwen the characters. She also announced a return to Kaer Morhen:
“Probably my favorite additions for Season 2 are the new witchers. Really, in Season 1, we got to know Geralt and he’s our prime example of a witcher. [...] So it was, for us really, about getting Geralt back to his roots and sort of learning where he came from and what his story is and what his sense of family is. [...] When I talk about The Witcher, I always talk about how these three characters coming together — Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer — they come together as a family. It’s the most important part of the series for me.”
Hissrich does not want to bring this phenomenon down to blood ties alone. She wants to capture the theme of family more symbolically:
“And when you start to imagine someone’s family, you also need to understand their family of origin. Sometimes that’s a mother and father, sometimes that’s blood relatives. For Geralt, it’s his brothers, it’s the brotherhood of the witchers. So I’m really excited to get back in and meet Vesemir, his father figure, for the first time and all of these men that he was raised with since he was seven years old."
Geralt's direct relation with Ciri will also receive its 5 minutes:
“What I think is really fun about Geralt and Ciri is they are the most unexpected family you can imagine. You have a witcher whose sole job is to kill things for money and you have a little girl who is trying to escape her past and it’s like, how do they come together? And to me, one of the most fun things we get to explore in Season 2 now is how they get to change and shift each other.”
During the interview, Hissrich also shared a very important piece of information, thanks to which most of the fans of the series can relax. One of the most serious problems of season 1 was his unpleasant jumping on timelines. The showrunner officially announced that she is done with this kind of narrative:
"What we’ll see in Season 2 is that all of our characters are existing on the same timeline. What that allows us to do storywise though is to play with time in slightly different ways. We get to do flashbacks, we get to do flash-forwards, we get to actually integrate time in a completely different way that we weren’t able to do in Season 1."
The Witcher will return in Season 2, but its release date is unknown to anyone. We can only be sure that familiar faces, headed by Henry Cavill and Joey Batey, will appear on the screen. Apart from Hissrich herself, Tomasz Baginski is still involved in the project.
