Yesterday’s tease was true: Netflix has dropped the first official trailer for The Witcher season 3, and even better, announced the release dates. And yes, it’s dates, because the new season is coming in two parts.
Season 3 volume 1 will debut on June 29, according to the trailer, while volume 2 will land a month later, on July 27. Netflix clarified that the first volume will include five episodes while the second will have the last three, which is kind of a weird split—why not four and four?—but as someone who blazed through the first two seasons at maximum speed, I appreciate being given a mandatory break in the middle.
The new season of The Witcher on Netflix will follow Geralt, Yennfer, and Ciri as they attempt to escape “monarchs, mages, and beasts …