There’s a huge buzz building up to the impending release of The Witcher 5 – the final season of this much-loved fantasy series on Netflix – but before we get that all-important release date, we can get a glimpse of the storyline in store for us.
Netflix dropped the new season synopsis today, which goes like this: “The end is nigh… Dark forces are gathering across the Continent with evil plans all converging on Ciri, and if Geralt and Yennefer are going to save their daughter & get their dream family back together, they’ll have to overcome some seriously daunting obstacles & enemies. The kind we’ve never seen before.”
As well as Liam Hemsworth in the lead role as Geralt, we can confirm that the rest of the main cast for the final season will include Anya Chalotra (who’s sticking with Yennefer of Vengerberg), Freya Allan (back as Princess Cirilla of Cintra), Joey Batey (who’s sticking with Jaskier) and Laurence Fishburne (reprising Regis). As yet, we still don’t have a release date locked in place, but the next-to-last season of The Witcher is due out with Netflix in 2026, probably around the same time of year as the fourth season – and we know that one premiered in October 2025
The fourth season of The Witcher got a pretty lukewarm reception from fans, and that was probably helped or hindered by Liam Hemsworth’s first outing as Geralt. It’s been a while since we heard that the fourth season premiered to just 7.4 million viewers in November last year – a 51% drop from the third season and a 60% drop from the second. That’s a pretty big slide in public interest and everywhere you looked, you could see people saying that they just didn’t want to see Liam in the Geralt role at all – after all, who can forget Henry Cavill?
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is back in the driving seat as showrunner for the final season, and the exec producers are Steve Gaub, Mike Ostrowski, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Platige Films (Tomek Baginski & Jarek Sawko), and Hivemind Content (Jason Brown & Sean Daniel). Will they manage to turn things around and give us a final season that feels right – both in terms of viewership and general popularity? We’ll just have to wait and see…
Source: Comicbook
