The Witcher

Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

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Why it matters

Netflix ends The Witcher with a fifth season, the second since Liam Hemsworth took the role Henry Cavill walked away from.

About The Witcher

Netflix's The Witcher adapts Andrzej Sapkowski's novels and short stories about Geralt of Rivia, a mutant who hunts monsters for money across a continent where the human politics are usually worse than anything with claws. Henry Cavill played him for three seasons and left. Liam Hemsworth took the role for the fourth, which arrived in 2025. The show has never been a close adaptation so much as a loose one, and the recasting sharpened an argument that was already running.

A fifth season ends the series. It was ordered alongside the fourth and shot back to back with it, finishing filming in September 2025, and it runs eight episodes. Netflix first indicated 2026, then let that slip, and 2027 is the current expectation, so the date is still to be confirmed. For anyone who stopped partway, the fifth season is where this version of the story finally closes out.

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