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What ‘The Witcher’ Gets Right That ‘Game of Thrones’ Got So Terribly Wrong

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The new 8-episode fantasy series, starring Henry Cavill as a monster-killing hero, boasts refreshingly complex female warriors and doesn’t trivialize the horrors of sexual assault.

I probably couldn’t tell you what, exactly, happens in Season 1 of The Witcher, the Netflix fantasy series starring Henry Cavill in an array of frizzy wigs and distracting colored contact lenses.

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