The Witcher season 4 with Hemsworth as Geralt sets up final season

Netflix’s The Witcher returned on Oct. 30 with its fourth season, marking a major cast change and setting up a final chapter for the fantasy saga. Liam Hemsworth debuts as Geralt of Rivia after Henry Cavill’s departure, the season scatters the three leads across a war-torn Continent, and it closes on multiple cliffhangers that propel the story into a fifth and final season already filmed back to back with this run.

The eight-episode season follows Geralt as he travels with a ragtag band called the Hansa, is knighted by Queen Meve, and continues his search for Ciri. Ciri, played by Freya Allan, adopts the alias Falka and joins the outlaws known as the Rats, only to be captured after the gang is brutally slain by bounty hunter Leo Bonhart. Yennefer, played by Anya Chalotra, assembles surviving sorceresses into a new Lodge and wounds the antagonist Vilgefortz, but she ends the season stranded after pursuing him through a portal. Political maneuvers by Emperor Emhyr and a mysterious monster dispatched to hunt Geralt also set stakes high for the concluding season. Several prominent characters die over the course of the season, underscoring the showrunner’s intent to push characters...