The Witcher producer hints at the second season plot: telling the story of the demon hunter's demise

The second season of Netflix's The Witcher TV series will premiere in 2021, so fans of this dark fantasy series will have to wait a while. The ending of The Witcher Season 1 clearly indicated the main plot of Season 2, but producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich revealed that they will explore another story in The Witcher Season 2.

In response to a fan on Reddit, The Witcher producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich revealed that the second season will deal with the story of monsters and demon hunters going to extinction. This is a theme of The Witcher series of novels, but it is not the story told in the first season of the TV series. In the same Reddit post, The Witcher producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich also revealed why they decided to cut this plot from the first season of the TV series.

"In the book and at the beginning of our TV series, there's a lot of talk about how humans hate demon hunters, but humans still need demon hunters, and that's the problem," explained Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, producer of The Witcher. "A lot of times you need something you hate. We need this hatred in the TV series to make the audience understand why our hero is an outsider. So we decided to make these monsters appear more in front of us in these thirty years of stories."

So the idea of ​​making monsters extinct did not really appear in the first season of The Witcher. If there were no monsters, then what reason would humans have to ask Geralt for help?

Netflix's The Witcher season 1 received mixed reviews, but it was a huge ratings success. If The Witcher season 2 can address the issues that viewers complained about, it could reach new heights when it returns in 2021.

Netflix's The Witcher Season 2 will begin filming on February 17, 2020.