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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAYOctober 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia in "The Witcher."
Is one "Witcher" as good as another? Good enough, I suppose.
When Henry Cavill announced in October 2022 that he would not return for the fourth season of Netflix's "The Witcher," in which he played the title character, fans were worried. Would Liam Hemsworth, best known as Chris' little brother, Miley Cyrus' ex-husband and the worst third of the love triangle from "The Hunger Games," live up to Cavill's grunting stoicism? Could the protagonist of a show as intense and popular as "The Witcher" simply be swapped with another Hollywood hunk?
The answer is, somewhat anticlimactically, yes. In the eight-episode Season 4 (all episodes streaming Oct. 30), Hemsworth makes his debut as Geralt of Rivia with the same brand of ripped biceps and monosyllabic answers that Cavill brought to the character for the first three seasons. His version of Geralt is fine, dandy even. He can grunt, fight and moon over his one true love Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) as well as Cavill.
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Freya Allan as Ciri in Season 4 of "The Witcher."
If anything, there is something of an uncanny valley watching the new episodes: Hemsworth goes through the motions closely enough to Cavill that it can be eerie and unsettling to see his face beneath the white-blond layered wig.
After a flashback-heavy opening that inserts Hemsworth into major moments from the show's past, Season 4 finds our fair witchy family split by the hands of fate, once again. Geralt is injured, traveling with his trusty musical sidekick Jaskier (Joey Batey) and warrior Milva (Meng'er Zhang) in search of Ciri (Freya Allan) and Yennefer, in that order.
Yennefer is back with the sisterhood formerly known as the brotherhood, but things aren't going super-well for the magical mavens, decimated in ranks by the evil Vilgefortz (Mahesh Jadu) and hated by the public for, well, reasons. Ciri, unbeknowest to her surrogate ma and pa, is free of her Nilfgaardian captors and on the run with a band of adolescent ruffians, and perhaps figuring out how to take care of herself.
The series continues its pattern of plot complications and head-spinning mythologizing, adding new faces (including Laurence Fishburne, rocking his medieval fantasy glow-up), new magical rules and new dirty, bloody fight scenes. Ciri gets a bit more agency and backbone, a welcome evolution for a character who has been jerked around by the plot, her allies and her enemies for too long. Chalotra still excels at giving Yennefer a desperate rage that makes her sorceress scenes visceral and exciting. The rest of the expansive cast can be hard to keep track of, but there is plenty of comic relief from all the darker drama.
Anya Chalotra as Yennefer (right) and Mecia Simson as Francesca in "The Witcher" Season 4.
"Witcher" does not fall apart without Cavill. It does not necessarily rise from the ashes of his departure into a new and better series, either. It remains the kind of high fantasy that will please fans and confuse newcomers, with enough violence per episode to engage the senses. It is the same as it always was, if only slightly different.
Since Season 2, the story has been far more focused on its female leads Yennefer and Ciri, anyway − a controversial creative decision that has served the storytelling well, even if it ruffled some fans who wish the show would adhere to the book and video game source material without fail. Geralt's new face can fade happily into the background as the two women take further precedence in the story.
We'll toss a coin to any witcher Netflix can throw at us, as long as the series keeps its soul.
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