If you needed to show somebody the sheer range of tones The Witcher is capable of juggling at once, the season-four finale would be a great place to start. In the span of a single hour, we get a rousing soldiers-and-monsters fight with Geralt and company; an earnest, forward-thinking political maneuver by Yennefer and her sorceresses; and a genuinely, horrifyingly violent fate for Ciri and her Rats.

Let’s start with Geralt. Having spent the entire season trekking toward Nilfgaard, the group has one last obstacle in their way: a raging river to cross. At first, it seems like good fortune when they stumble upon a ferry. But when a Northern army regiment sees the boat on the river and mistakes them for Nilfgaardian spies, they end up desperately floating down the river — only to encounter,

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