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Mayfair Witches Read More Walking Dead Are you excited that The Walking Dead is back? New episode, "The Suicide King", is airing tonight on AMC. This is just an announcement that you can start your pre-order for The Walking Dead AMC …

Mayfair Witches
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With the final 11th season of Walking Dead just aired in 2022, AMC is shopping around for a new IP to bring in new viewers. To me, it looks like AMC decide to put their chips in Anne Rice. Their first effort was Interview with the Vampire, based on Rice’s 1976 novel.

I only know about this Interview with the Vampire story through the 1994 movie adaptation, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Between this movie and its sequel, Queen of the Damned, I can’t say that I was that interested in gothic vampires. I do eventually intend to watch the AMC TV show of Vampire… but, at the moment, I’m in no hurry.

However, I am very interested in the upcoming Mayfair Witches show, mostly because I’m in love with leading star Alexandra Daddario. She was amazing in The White Lotus and was the best thing in Baywatch (2017).

While Mayfair Witches is the second series in the Anne Rice universe, titled “The Immortal Universe”, you do not need to watch Interview with the Vampire to understand Mayfair Witches.

I have not read the novel, but I have some comic book adaption of The Witching Hour (with some great John Bolton cover art), so I’m somewhat familiar with the first novel.

It would seem that the new television series made some drastic changes to the story. First of all, they future jump the story, so everything takes place in the modern age (people talking about Uber driver and Minecraft just makes me cringe).

Another thing is they removed an important character in the novel: Michael Curry. Instead, AMC decides to create a new character called Ciprien Grieve, which combines Michael and Aaron Lightner.

I can’t say that after watching the pilot, that I’m that excited to see the rest of the series. The pilot doesn’t really clue you in where the story is going, why we should care about anyone, and what are the rules of these supernatural witches. The only thing it does is set up some of the main characters, primarily centered around Dr Rowan Fielding. Maybe it’ll get better with the second episode.

Mayfair Witches will air on AMC on January 8, 2023.

The Witcher: Blood Origin Read More The Witcher The second The Witcher season is upon us! Man, it’s been so long (the first season aired in 2019!), I have forgotten much of the first season. I do recall that I loved it… however the critics hated it because they just couldn’t follow the three different …

The Witcher: Blood Origin
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Netflix’s The Witcher spinoff series, The Witcher: Blood Origin is universally hated by fans and critics.

There are several reasons why no one likes the new television series… from my perspective, it just comes down to a poorly written story… and completely unnecessary. It has nothing to do with the Witcher… and, in fact, if they remove that name in the title, you can just treat it as a dumb fantasy about some elves.

When Witcher star Henry Cavill announced that he is stepping down as the Witcher, I read it was because the writers of the series was not respecting the source material. Based on watching The Witcher: Blood Origin, I’m going to agree.

You see, the regular Witcher series are based on novels by author Andrzej Sapkowski. His story and characters are from Polish myths and legends, combined with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth fantasy creatures of Elves, Gnomes, and Dwarves.

Instead of adapting one of Sapkowski’s novels, the Blood Origin creators decides to make up their own story to explain the origin of The Witcher. That does sound pretty cool, but when you watch it, it’s pretty awful. It starts with two characters meeting randomly after a failed assassin attempt. Their journey takes them to find Michelle Yeoh, the last of the Ghost Clan, and then they randomly meet other characters who bumped into them walking in the road. The seven outcasts join forces to fight an evil empire… and accidentally created the very first Witcher.

While I don’t hate myself for watching Blood Origin, I think I could have just skipped this. I have enjoyed the regular The Witcher television show, and I love the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt… I just felt Blood Origin was a waste of everyone’s time, and not worthy of the Witcher name.

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Gamer TV: Witcher and Arcane

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Read More The Witcher Critics absolutely hates Netflix’s The Witcher. The reason is that they don’t generally love the source material (a series of fantasy books) and they don’t play the video games. Since they don’t know the books or games, there’s a disconnect …

THE WITCHER
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The second The Witcher season is upon us! Man, it’s been so long (the first season aired in 2019!), I have forgotten much of the first season. I do recall that I loved it… however the critics hated it because they just couldn’t follow the three different time lines. Those same “critics” didn’t really watch the entire season, and they’ve even admitted it so.

There’s even a jab/joke at the critics in Season 2, where a guard said that he didn’t like Dandelion’s song, citing it was too complicated, that he didn’t realized there was three different timeline until the third verse. I laughed so hard at that joke. Sure, it was out of place, but I thought it was funny.

For Season 2, there are no multi-timeline, it’s all one (or actually two) storyline and played out pretty straight forward. I would have to complain that the first episode felt like “Monster of the week” and didn’t seem to fit with the rest of Season 2.

In typical Netflix fashion, we get all the episodes to binge at once, and I really appreciate that. I just don’t have to patience to wait for the full story – I want to see how it ends.

Since I played the excellent video games from CD Projekt Red, I had an idea of where the show was heading… but it was still really fun to see how it unfolds. For example, when they introduced all the other Witchers (including Geralt’s father figure), at the Witcher Keep, you knew many of them weren’t going to make it to the end of the season. This was fairly obvious, at least to me.

The second and third episodes, we find that Geralt had decided to train Ciri to defend herself when he’s gone.

We also finally meet Triss Merigold, to help find out about these monsters that Ciri had unleashed. I have to say that I’m so used to seeing Triss in the video game, that her appearance is … a little different in the TV show. I suppose I have to get used to it. Her hair is curly, but at least they dyed it red. I think the internet would be entirely upset if her hair was not red.

In the game, you romanced with her (or at least you have the option), so it’s implied that she’s a former ex, but in the show, they played it like they’ve never gone in that way, even though Triss wants a relationship.

Personally speaking, between Yennifer and Triss, I’ve always been partial to Triss, as she’s often friendlier and relatable.

There’s also this other plot about the war between the Elves and Humans, which was somewhat confusing… but if you pay attention, there is an evil force that is pulling the string. Since Yennifer lost her magic powers, I felt the show didn’t know what to do with her. Her motivation is to sacrifice Ciri so she can get her powers back, which is spelled out to the viewers – but I’m not sure how everyone else figured out the plot.

There is an amazing human vs Witcher fight sequence that is beyond unbelievable. It was great and gritting, and honestly was so much better than that CGI-dragons/lizard fight that the Witchers had in the end.

Anyway, I love the ending, even though it’s setting up The Wild Hunt for next season, and I’m all on board! Unlike Season 1, the critics loved it at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes (that’s because there’s only one timeline).

Read More League of Legends League of Legends is also offering a free full album download at on their official website for a limited time. Unlike my complaint about the Tavern Songs, this Music of League Vol 1 comes with album artwork.…

ARCANE
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I don’t play the League of Legends video game, that Arcane is based on, so I actually had no interest in watching this new animated series… however, after seeing so many glowing reviews of the Netflix show, I had to give it a chance.

So, yeah, it’s pretty good… but, to me, it’s not that amazing. I think the animation is really cool, it has that Blizzard style… and if you can get past the animation, you might like the show.

Sometime, I just wish they kill off Jinx (Powder), as she’s clearly crazy… but the show gave her bulletproof plot armor. Same goes for her crazy father-figure Silco... there are so many moments where I just wish they get rid of these characters.

The problem is that everyone loves the show, and after watching it, I just think it’s alright. I’ve seen this type of story before, and I wasn’t all-in in all the characters. I didn’t really like anyone, except for perhaps, Caitlyn, a sniper that was introduced late in the series. I like her because she motive is pure, and in service of justice. I can see where the show is going, perhaps a romance between Vi and Caitlyn, but we may not see that blossom until season two.

Speaking of which, the response to Season One was so good that the second season is already in production – but it won’t arrive until after 2022.

Again, I think the show is fine, I’m not sure why there’s all this hype for it. I guess since I don’t play the video game by Riot Games, I am just not invested in it. Even the cliffhanger ending, I’m like “meh” and I can take it or leave it for Season 2.

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Cyberpunk 2077

Read More Games When The Witcher television show came out last year on Netflix, there was a massive uptick on newfound fans playing the game again. That’s because, like the game, the show was very well done and had a compelling story. …

For some odd reason, Best Buy, allowed me to pick up my pre-order for Cyberpunk 2077 video game for the PC. The game is not officially out until December 10, 2020, on a variety of platforms: Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and even on Google’s Stadia. The best part is that if you have an Xbox Series S/X or PS5, Cyberpunk 2077 will run on the new console.

To understand why this game is one of the most overhyped game since their announcement in May 2012, you have to understand that it is mostly based on the game developer, CD Projekt Red. They made the Witcher game series, and, by far, their finest hour with Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Even though I personally own Witcher 3 on the PC, I have gone back and re-purchased them on the PS4 or Xbox, simply because I love the game and wanted to help support the developer.

When the hit Netflix show, based on the books (and video game) of The Witcher came out in December 2019, it introduced a whole new generation of fresh gamers to CD Projekt (they boast that Witcher 3 had a 554% sale increase that month!) It is that new fanbase, combined with the old school fanbase that drove the massive interest in CD Projekt’s next game, Cyberpunk 2077.

Based on hearing that they’ve hired Keanu Reeves to play Johnny Silverhand, and seeing early game footage using REDengine last year, Cyberpunk 2077 became one of the highest anticipated games of all time.

Unfortunately, Cyberpunk missed a few release dates. Originally set for April 2020, it was delayed to September. Naturally, everyone understood because of the COVID-19 situation. However, when September rolled around, CD Projekt delayed the game to November (just in time for the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles launch). Of course, they missed the November launch, and ultimately, they locked in December 10, 2020.

That’s where we come in… I picked up the game a few days early, and already downloading the massive game as I write this. I’m very excited to finally play this game… however, I already know that there are a ton of bugs, according to various game reviewers with early access to the game. I’m sure with ongoing patches, the game will be nothing less than amazing, but at launch, there’s bound to be some game-breaking bugs. Still, I don’t care. This is CD Projekt’s new game, after Witcher 3, and I am just very excited to try out something new from this game developer.

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