Huh? Doesn’t look cheap to me at all. Looked fine.
I only watched one episode.
The cheapness definitely shines through in how sparse and limited outdoors shots and landscapes are shown.
Sets feel tiny and essential, probably what gave people that "Hercules/Xena" vibe, especially compared to Game of Thrones later seasons, where they could just be obscene about that shit, because they had money out the ass.
Even the battle scene against Nilfgard looks kind of cute, compared to the various skirmishes in GoT.
That said, the tone worked well for me, and i'm sort of hooked already, besides, the final butchery of Blaviken (finally got to see where that line from the game was from) was quite cool and gore-y.
I thought it was going to be utter shit, but i'm positively surprised.
Seems like schlock of the entertaining kind.