Netflix’s The Witcher adaptation launched its second season earlier this month, and it’s proven as wildly successful as the first. A large part of the appeal for both new and returning fans is the introduction of several important characters absent from the first series, including Vesemir, the leader of the witcher guild. He’s played by Danish Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve).
“I always love to see these worlds where magic and nature is so integrated into the storytelling,” Bodnia explains in a new mini-featurette published by Netflix today which introduces Vesemir’s role in the story of season 2.
Check out the full sequence below.
As noted by TheWrap, the 142.4 million hours viewed was nearly three times the next most-viewed TV show, “Money Heist,” which logged 55 million hours viewed in Netflix’s weekly viewership rankings.
Still, Twinfinite wasn’t necessarily pleased with some of the decision-making behind the show’s storytelling; features editor Andrew McMahon recently wrote about his frustration with the handling of Eskel, which you can read here.
For more on Vesemir, Netflix also produced an animated prologue called Nightmare of the Wolf earlier this year, which offers some context as to what caused the destruction of Kaer Morhen.
