Netflix Trying To COME THROUGH With A Live Action ‘The Witcher’ Series

Let’s be clear about a few things. First, Netflix’s commitment to original programming is akin to the dude in the Comments section that is willing to die on the hill of The Watchmen movie “not being that bad.” Like there’s plenty of wins, but Netflix has had some flubs recently too. But they a volume shooter, fam. We talkin’ James Harden before he found the pass button on his PS4. They toss up enough shots and enough are going to fall. Second, there are only 13 episodes of Game of Thrones left (a number that seems to shrink every few months. I’m starting to think they gonna hit us with three 90-minute episodes in August and call it a day at this rate). GOT has become possibly the biggest social TV phenomenon ever (qualified by shows that didn’t have the full utility of Twitter and other social platforms), and there’s going to be a huge void left for the mature, brutal, fantasy genre when the Boys of Summer finally closes up shop. (Though, I hear these prequel talks are getting more serious, but if I roll my eyes any harder about that, I’ll make myself blackout and I got shit to do today.) So, with those two components, enter the announcement of Netflix producing a Witcher series, based upon the fantasy novels written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, which also spawned the very popular video game. So here’s the rub, we know, WE KNOW that there’s a 90% chance that any movie or TV show based on a video game is fuckin terrible. Like, it is known, Khaleesi. Prince of Persia, Do…