it has been since the end of season 1, when it was revealed that they were re writing the script because the mediocre writers thought they were better than Sapkowsky.

Getting four seasons is not a flop. I agree the first season was terrible, I never end bothered with any more but it clearly got the numbers.

Bad special effects cost more than good special effects because the lack of talent makes them inefficient.

Idk why Netflix continues to fuck up in this exact way over and over again. Did they not learn from Marco Polo, which they produced over a decade ago to be their version of Game of Thrones? At the time, it was one of the most expensive TV shows ever made, but nobody watched it and nobody remembers it because it was all spectacle and no substance. Nobody I know who liked the Netflix Witcher is planning on watching Season 4, and no amount of budget is going to fix that.

Just another way to launder money I guess, since the 27M an episode budget sounds just way over the top for such a shit show.

Without context that actually isn't as crazy as it sounds, considering some of the absurd budgets of TV shows nowadays. But for a show with seemingly so little cultural impact and from Netflix it really is suprising.

I mean Amazon spend way more on the terrible LOTR series and Citadel cost like 300m for a single season without having any cultural impact. But that is just typical Amazon throwing money in the fire hoping for their own GoT, whereas Netflix usually seems to be much more about numbers and cancelling shows if no one watches them (so apparently the viewership numbers are still solid?).

And recently Andor came in at over $600m for two seasons, but especially the second season was basically like 4 high quality movies (each 3 episode block being roughly one). Which puts the whole budget into perspective and i feel like the repairs it did to the damaged star wars franchise brand were huge.