The Witcher Blood Origin has Netflix’s worst ever Rotten Tomatoes audience score

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The Witcher Blood Origin has Netflix’s worst ever Rotten Tomatoes audience score

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Viewers have been left divided over the low Rotten Tomatoes score for The Witcher: Blood Origin.

Prequel to Netflix's The Witcher - which has an average tomatometer score of 81 percent and audience score of 75 percent - the limited series The Witcher: Blood Origin hasn't quite followed in its anticipated footsteps. Check out the trailer here:

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The Witcher: Blood Origin's official synopsis reads: "More than a thousand years before the events of 'The Witcher,' seven outcasts in an Elven world join forces in a quest against an all-powerful empire."

Created by Declan de Barra and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, the miniseries premiered on Christmas Day but has already fallen flat with many fans of the original.

The Witcher - starring the likes of Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan and Henry Cavill and first released in 2019 - kicked up a storm, but with no sign of Cavill in sight in The Witcher: Blood Origin and being accused of being 'lackluster, unoriginal and carried through on the promise of better things' by one reviewer, The Witcher: Blood Origin has ended up with Netflix's worst ever Rotten Tomatoes audience score.

The Witcher: Blood Origin currently has a Rotten Tomatoes average audience score of just nine percent. Credit: Rotten Tomatoes
The Witcher: Blood Origin currently has a Rotten Tomatoes average audience score of just nine percent. Credit: Rotten Tomatoes

Despite this, according to Flix Patrol, the series still made the top 10 on Netflix in a significant amount of countries across the globe.

On 26 December, a day after its release, it came in at the top spot in the UK and US with an overall average worldwide ranking of 3.9.

The Witcher: Blood Origin still made Netflix's top ten the day after its release in many countries. Credit: Netflix
The Witcher: Blood Origin still made Netflix's top ten the day after its release in many countries. Credit: Netflix

Some viewers have leapt to the series' defence and questioned how it's received such a low score.

Taking to Twitter, one user said: "WHY does The Witcher: Blood Origin ONLY have 35% on rotten tomatoes?????????? This is a GOOD series."

"I am genuinely enjoying The Witcher Blood Origin on Netflix. Michelle Yeoh is so phenomenal. Of course I went on here to see what other people are saying and it’s just racist review bombing. I hate it here," another added.

A third claimed: "I read 30 one-star reviews of The Witcher: Blood Origin and skimmed more on IMDB. This screen below is of one of them. They're mostly copy-paste of the same. So basically, racists and misogynists didn't like it. More reasons to watch it. Was it perfect? No. Was it fun? F**k yeah!"

Some fans have stuck up for the series but many have agreed with the Rotten Tomatoes score. Credit: @learnFromHaman/ Twitter
Some fans have stuck up for the series but many have agreed with the Rotten Tomatoes score. Credit: @learnFromHaman/ Twitter

However, others had a more negative opinion.

One wrote: "The Witcher: Blood Origin episode 2 down. Holy f*ck.. HOW? How does a show like this get made?? It is LAUGHABLY DOG S**TE!!"

"The Witcher: Blood Origin is torture," a second commented.

Another said: "WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN is an empty, bloated prequel miniseries that fails to justify its existence. Legacy characters like Eredin & Avallac'h are butchered, while fresh characters aren't nearly interesting enough to carry the tale."

While a final resolved: "It’s fine to criticise The Witcher: Blood Origin because of the plot, CGI, quality of writing/acting/directing etc (or lack thereof), what’s not okay is homophobic, racist, ableist or other comments claiming the 'diversity' is the problem. No, the problem is just that it’s crap."

Topics: Film & TV, Netflix, Film and TV, Viral, Social Media, Entertainment

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