The Witcher boss says Season 2 will move away from the multiple timelines that confused viewers

TheWrap

Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich told The Wrap the Season 2 change isn't being made in response to the Season 1 complaints. “Obviously, it was one of the most controversial parts of Season 1 and I didn’t expect it to be as controversial as it was," she said. "But it’s something I still stand behind, in terms of storytelling." Hissrich added that the "goal was to get to know each of these characters individually, and the only want to do that was to separate their timelines. What’s great though is they have intersected now. So what we’ll see in Season 2 is that all of our characters are existing on the same timeline. What that allows us to do storywise though is to play with time in slightly different ways. We get to do flashbacks, we get to do flash-forwards, we get to actually integrate time in a completely different way that we weren’t able to do in Season 1."