The first season of The Witcher was everything one could hope for in a television dramatization, but it confused some viewers by splitting the story into multiple time periods. Gerard, Jenefer, and Siri begin the season at very different points in the continent's history, and the show only hints at where the episodes are taking place in the time line.

In "The Witcher" Season 2, that is changing. At the conclusion of Season 1, all of the trio's paths converged, setting up a simpler, more unified timeline. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich confirmed earlier this year that it will follow a more traditional structure, and recently provided more details on its form.

"What you'll see in season two is that all the characters are on the same timeline," Hissrich told The Wrap. 'But what that allows us to do story-wise is play with time in a slightly different way. We can do flashbacks, we can do flash forwards, we can integrate time in a completely different way that we couldn't do in season one. Because if you are in three different timelines and you do flash forwards and flashbacks, then you have four or five or six timelines.

At the start of the first season, Gerard is already around 100 years old, but we can see moments from his past, such as when he was given to the wizard and when he first met his mentor, Vesemir. We only hear Vesemir's voice, but he appears in Season 2 along with Geralt's colleagues. We will meet characters who have known Geralt for a long time, and this time we will delve more deeply into Geralt's past.

Indeed, Hissrich hints at it. Season 2, she says, will "take Geralt back to his roots and learn where he came from. In order for Geralt, Sheli, and Jenefer to find each other and understand their relationship, they need to understand the family he grew up with, the Witcher.

A date for the new season has not yet been set. Filming had begun but had to be postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak in the sixth week. Christopher Hivju, who plays Nivellen but is best known for his role as Tormund in "Game of Thrones," contracted COVID-19, but according to Hisrich, no one else was infected. Since then, the cast has been re-baked and the writers have apparently gone back to the script and made some major changes.

However, "The Witcher" could resume production soon, and the studio began resumption proceedings earlier this month; on June 2, Arborfield Studios, where "The Witcher" is being filmed, announced that it would be ready to resume shooting in the next few weeks.

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