{"id":980727,"date":"2025-10-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=980727"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:44:50","slug":"the-witcher-season-4-ending-dark-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/the-witcher-season-4-ending-dark-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher Season 4 Is Going to End In a Dark Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-spoiler-alert\"><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 23\"><path d=\"M15.713 6.511c-2.41 0-4.376 2.057-4.376 4.591 0 2.527 1.96 4.591 4.376 4.591 2.41 0 4.375-2.057 4.375-4.591 0-2.527-1.966-4.591-4.375-4.591z\"\/><path d=\"M15.713 18.358c-3.88 0-7.04-3.253-7.04-7.256s3.16-7.255 7.04-7.255c3.879 0 7.04 3.252 7.04 7.255s-3.161 7.256-7.04 7.256zm16.085-7.961C27.63 3.709 22.015.027 16 .027 9.985.026 4.369 3.708.202 10.396c-.267.43-.267.98 0 1.41C4.37 18.495 9.985 22.178 16 22.178c6.015 0 11.624-3.683 15.798-10.37.267-.432.267-.98 0-1.411z\"\/><\/svg><em>The following article contains major spoilers for Andrzej Sapkowski&#8217;s penultimate The Witcher Saga novel, The Tower of Swallows.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Netflix\u2019s high fantasy series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/the-witcher\/\">The Witcher<\/a><\/em> has plenty of dark elements: Terrifying monsters, deadly magic, and humans who are often more dangerous than any beast. (And that\u2019s not even counting Witchers themselves, who are essentially born via a horrifying series of alchemical mutations.) But despite the many dangers the series hero, Geralt of Rivia, and his various companions have faced over the course of three seasons to date, the show has tended to wrap up each outing on a fairly positive note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series\u2019s main trio of characters may be separated, and they might each have serious challenges ahead of them, but for the most part, there\u2019s a sense of hope that things are moving in the proper direction. Apparently, that\u2019s not going to be the case in season 4, and this penultimate batch of episodes may well end with one of the darkest moments in Andrzej Sapkowski&#8217;s novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Now that filming has officially wrapped on the show\u2019s fifth and final season, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich sat down for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-witchers-final-seasons-liam-hemsworth-and-showrunner-lauren-schmidt-hissrich-on-replacing-henry-cavill-and-crafting-a-really-good-payoff-to-the-series?utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lengthy chat with <em>IGN<\/em><\/a> to discuss what\u2019s ahead in <em>The Witcher&#8217;s<\/em> final two seasons. And apparently, there\u2019s going to be quite a bit of trouble ahead for our faves \u2014 of a sort that can\u2019t be entirely resolved in one season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wrote both seasons back to back, we filmed them both back to back,\u201d Hissrich said. \u201cThey&#8217;re coming out as two separate entities, but they really are one long story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Witcher\u2019s <\/em>third season concluded with the series\u2019 primary trio separated across the Continent. Badly wounded, Geralt (Henry Cavill, soon to be Liam Hemsworth) is on the hunt for the missing Princess Cirilla of Cintra (Freya Allan), his beloved Child of Surprise and a young witcher in training. Having done her best to heal Geralt, Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya Chalotra) is off to rally the sorceresses of Aretuza to face off against the dark sorcerer, Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu). And as for Ciri, she\u2019s once again on the run, hiding under the assumed name Falka among a group of young thieves known as The Rats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOrganically, this is where the stories were heading, no matter what,\u201d Hissrich said. \u201cWe knew that by the end of season three that Ciri, Yennefer, and Geralt were each going to be on their own paths. They had to separate. That is what happens in the books. It just felt like the natural step for our show, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But according to Hissrich, fans shouldn\u2019t expect a family reunion between the three this season. In fact, it sounds like we&#8217;d better start preparing ourselves for some significant emotional trauma.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat was interesting for us is that most seasons end on, seasons one, two three, they end on an up note. You finally have the family reunited. We made a choice at the end of season four to have it end on quite a downbeat, to put people in this position where things have almost never looked worse,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause for us, that was the only way to split this journey in half. And then in season five, start Geralt up again. Because really, once you start season four, it&#8217;s all about reuniting this family, and it takes 16 episodes to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in the world of <em>The Witcher,<\/em> the idea of our characters finding themselves in a position that\u2019s somehow worse than anything they\u2019ve ever faced leaves a <em>lot<\/em> of room for horrors of various stripes, considering this is a show that has included everything from simple torture to mass infanticide. But, if you\u2019re at all familiar with Andrzej Sapkowski&#8217;s <em>Witcher Saga<\/em>, you might have an idea where at least one of these plot threads is likely going. And, unfortunately, our Lion Cub of Cintra is probably about to go <em>through it <\/em>once again, in large part because of an evil bounty hunter named Leo Bonhart (Sharlto Copley).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mercenary who casually sports an assortment of medallions he claims he got from the witchers he\u2019s killed, Bonhart is a straight-up monster. In the penultimate <em>Witcher <\/em>novel, <em>The Tower of Swallows, <\/em>he takes Ciri prisoner and traumatizes her even further by forcing her to watch as he tortures and kills several people she cares about. It\u2019s a gruesome sequence and the lowest of low points for our heroine, which means it\u2019s also a perfectly bleak place to leave things ahead of her inevitable rise and triumph in the show\u2019s finale. But while it\u2019ll undoubtedly be great TV just\u2026 can this poor girl ever catch a break?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Witcher season 4 premieres October 30 on Netflix.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article contains major spoilers for Andrzej Sapkowski&#8217;s penultimate The Witcher Saga novel, The Tower of Swallows. Netflix\u2019s high fantasy series The Witcher has plenty of dark elements: Terrifying monsters, deadly magic, and humans who are often more dangerous than any beast. 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