News The Witcher HowThe Witcher Season 4’s First Episode Tries to Explain Henry Cavill’s Replacement Geralt is in the eye of the beholder. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on October 30, 2025 Credit: Susie Allnut/Netflix Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Susie Allnut/Netflix The fourth season of The Witcher just dropped on Netflix, and viewers are seeing how the Geralt handoff from Henry Cavill to Liam Hemsworth turns out. Before we get into it, a heads up: This post gets into extremely mild spoilers for the first episode. Good? Good. In the season’s first episode, we see a young girl tell an older man that he’s not been accurately explaining Geralt’s story. The girl says the “true” story comes from one of Jaskier’s books, which she has in her possession. This quasi-meta nod to the casting change was thought through in the writers’ room. “We wanted to play with the idea, which is a huge theme in The Witcher, of how stories change depending on who is telling them,” showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich told TVLine. “So obviously that opening sequence is played and there’s a device, and you sense that, oh, maybe everything that we’ve seen over the last three seasons has been through someone’s POV. Maybe that’s not actually how it happened. We constantly love to be playing with the idea of narrative with our audience.” To make this point super-duper clear to viewers, the episode then flashes back to pivotal moments from the first three seasons, but with Hemsworth as Geralt rather than Cavill. Our perspective, the show is telling us, can change! “We wanted to not dance around the fact that this is a new human being,” Hissrich added. “Yes, there’s still the yellow eyes and the silver wig, but at the same time, it’s played by Liam now. For us, it was about revisiting these really important moments in Geralt’s life, now seeing them embraced by a new human. Moving on, it’s our hope that what you really start to see in episode one is Geralt, not the actor that plays Geralt. That was Liam’s commitment to the role, and it worked out beautifully. He really sunk into the character, so then we didn’t feel the need to continue to address it.” Your mileage may vary on how the transition plays out: Judge for yourself by watching the fourth season, which is now streaming on Netflix. [end-mark] The post How<i>The Witcher</i> Season 4’s First Episode Tries to Explain Henry Cavill’s Replacement appeared first on Reactor.