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Well now I’m sorry I quit after one episode...Anya Chalotra in "The Witcher" (Season 1, Episode 3 / 2019) - IMDB
Yennefer (Chalotra) goes to see the magic beauty doctor. She is in a hurry, so she refuses any form of anesthesia. A bad mistake, since the procedure is not enjoyable at all.
As a fan of both the games (played all three of them) and the books (just finished "The Tower of the Swallow" the other day and now looking forward to complete the saga with "The Lady of the Lake"), I found the first season of the Netflix show to be really good in general. But as spectacular as this scene was, it was also the point where Yennefer's plot line jumped the shark for me.
I know that the books and the games are not really in canon either, but the Netflix Yennefer seemed like a completely different person. The problem the producers probably faced is that two out of three main characters (Yennefer and Ciri) only have very small roles in the first two books "The Last Wish" and "Sword of Destiny" that were adapted into the first season. And so they had to make something up for them, which did not really work for Yennefer in my opinion.