Thread by @LHissrich

It starts in the writers room. 20 weeks of book-reading, story-spinning, imagination-bending, head-bashing, vodka-slurping and cake-eating. S2 of @witchernetflix is all thanks to the passion of Mike, Sneha, Declan, Beau, Haily, Matt, Clare, Rae, Michael, and ever-brilliant Tera.

But the creative process is just beginning. Enter the mad directing team of Stephen, Sarah, Ed, and Louise, who embraced every conversation and confession, every fight and "fuck," with enthusiasm and aplomb, crafting a visual and cinematic scope beyond anything we had imagined.

Their extravagant visions were brought to life by cinematographers Romain, JP, and Terry -- and colored by Jet -- who pushed boundaries of light and magic to capture the wonder and warmth of this world, alongside DIT Mardon and fantastic camera ops James, Pete, Adam, and Eric.

Speaking of, none of this world would exist without the brilliance of our production and creature concept designer Andrew, who is not only an inexhaustible genius, but the deeply sensitive fount of inspiration behind myriapods, medallion trees, witcher keeps, and the Wild Hunt.

Truly, we're just beginning. Our stages and sets rest on the inimitable shoulders of Dom and Nicky construction, set decorator Rob, propmaster Roy, propmaker Craig, gaffers Wayne and Jason, key grip Paolo, greensperson Jon, sound recordist James, and SFX supervisor Stefano.

And who runs those sets? Not me. The care and love for this crew -- not to mention the schedule that keeps trains on time -- stems from hearts of assistant directors Sean, Tom, and Stewart, and script supervisor Karen. They are the most tireless and dedicated people I know.

Costume designer Lucinda and hair/make up designer Deb bring not only the beauty, but the grit, the glamor, the earthiness, the very essence of the show to life -- not to mention the monstrous work (and thousands of elf ears) of prosthetics designers Barrie and Sarah.

Of course, the Witcher would be nothing without our epic fights, courtesy of stunt coordinator Adam, encyclopedic armourer Nick and horsemaster Charlotte, and our even more insanely epic monsters and magic, thanks to VFX heroes, supervisor Dadi, producer Gavin, and editor Keith.

Which brings us to post-production! The final layer of storytelling, which only exists thanks to editing masterminds Nick, Mike, JD, and Oral (and shout-out to permanent fixture, James!), in an office run seamlessly by Jess, Ami, and Priya. Did I mention Friday night cocktails?

And then the icing on the cake with sound design and mixing by Danny, Matt, Rob, and Tom, gorgeous new musical compositions by Joe, aided by his editor Arabella. Matias, Caitlin, Rebecca, Mark, Patryk, Dan, Ben, all the teams at Goldcrest... so many people gave their all.

The cast. Henry, Anya, Freya, Joey, Eamon, MyAnna, Lars, Royce, Mimi, Therica, Wilson, Tom, Anna, Bart, Terence, Mahesh, Jeremy, Kris, Kim, Paul, Yas, Mecia, Chris, Graham, Ed, Aisha, Simon, Liz, Adjoa, Cassie, Jodhi, Adam, Gaia, Shaun, Agnes, Basil, Kaine, Ania... my gratitude.

And HEAPS of gratitude to the team that brought them together: the very soul of this show, casting director Sophie, as well as Finnian, Faye, and Frankie. Not enough words can be said about the boldness and strength of this group, the passion, the dedication. They blow me away.

And the behind-the-scenes brilliance of the office team: unflappable producer and all-around-miracle-worker Matt, line producer Mark, UPM Ella, and Sam and Jason who ran the whole damn thing, as well as Kate who kept it in order and Dave who made sure we could pay for it all!

Which brings me to the core of the family. The creative geniuses/smart cookies/smart asses who covered set, rewrote lines, managed debates and averted debacles, who helped every single step and held me up all the way: producers Steve, Tomek, Haily, and Tera. I love you all.

And finally to Kelly, my brilliant partner in crime, the show's biggest cheerleader and proponent, with an eye to perfection and also critique, the person always at the top of my WhatsApp list, without whom I would not be here, and this show would not exist. You are everything.

I'm signing off from here for a little bit, so I can rest, be with my family, and enjoy the holidays. But before I do: the biggest thank you goes to the fans, whose excitement brought us here, the eve of Season Two. I hope you love and enjoy @witchernetflix as much as we do.