Now that The Witcher Season 1 is out in the world for everyone to binge, we're eager to learn what's next for Geralt and his comrades, and more importantly, why Season 2 isn't dropping on Netflix until 2021. To learn everything we need to know about The Witcher Season 2, we went straight to the source - Witcher showrunner and executive producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who recently arrived in London to continue her work on the second season.
Hissrich admitted that she and her team had considered a late 2020 release date for Witcher Season 2, but eventually decided not to rush production. "The truth is, [The Witcher] is an enormous show and it takes a long time and we realized that in Season 1 we were smashing down a lot of the post-production process," Hissrich told IGN. "And we want to make sure that everyone on our team gets the time to do their job and do it to the best of their ability. So we’re making sure we have a lot of built-in cushion time for Season 2 so we don’t cram anything in at the last minute."
Hissrich revealed that all the scripts for The Witcher Season 2 have been written, though she told us that the pages are "living breathing things," which might go through some changes during pre-production. "Now is really the time that we do the fine-tuning," Hissrich said, "and we make sure that we’re telling the story the right way. And that will continue happening through July. It’s an ongoing, organic process.”
Hissrich also shared a few details about how Season 2's narrative structure will differ from its predecessor. For those of you who found the multiple Witcher timelines of Ciri, Geralt, and Yennefer difficult to follow, you can rest assured that The Witcher Season 2 will have a more linear timeline.
“The timelines were done mostly so we could follow Geralt’s story at the same time we were following Yennefer’s and Ciri’s story," Hissrich told IGN. "What we’ve done by the end of Season 1 is bring everyone onto the same timeline, and their stories will start to intersect a lot more. I personally was sad that the timelines weren’t received as well as I hoped they would’ve been. I think they’re fun. But I think the audience lucked out a lot because, in Season 2, those were already gone anyway. So I do think that it’s going to be an easier season to follow. But I think more than that, the storytelling is a lot more focused."
