Young Americans are just too stupid

The Witcher is sinking into the morass. At least that’s how it seems when Henry Cavill, one of the biggest Netflix magnets, first leaves the series and then one of the producers railed against the young, partly American audience.
“The Americans didn’t get it”: Does The Witcher fail because of stupid fans?

The Witcher producer Tomek Baginski was asked about the controversial deviations from Andrzej Sapkowski’s books in an interview with Polish news site Wyborcza (translated by Redanian Intelligence). He explained that these were necessary in order not to overwhelm the audience:

[Die Serie] is produced for a large crowd of viewers, with different experiences, from different parts of the world, and many of them are Americans.

Baginski explains that during the production of a film about the Warsaw Ghetto he had already encountered the incomprehension of the American public not understand the complicated constellations in the film could.

Americans didn’t get it because they grew up in a very different, arranged context: America is always among the good guys, the rest are the bad guys. No complications.

To what extent cultural differences or traditions are responsible for the ups and downs of The Witcher series is difficult to understand. A large part of the audience to be labeled as simple minds with no capacity for abstraction, will hardly give the Netflix hit a boost.

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