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Dec 15, 2014 · Lorenzo Richelmy plays Marco Polo in the series of the same name. Sadly, he never turns his name into a call-and-response game. Netflix. Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox ...
33% Tomatometer 45 Reviews 92% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings As a youth of 15 or 16, Marco Polo first met his father and uncle and embarked on an epic adventure, crossing thousands of miles of ...
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- December 12, 2014
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A Netflix Original series about the Venetian explorer in the court of Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan. The show has sumptuous costumes, multitudinous extras and spectacular backdrops, but suffers from small screen viewing.
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By Matt Fowler
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 1:25 am
Note: This is a review for the entire first season of Marco Polo, which consists of 10 episodes. There are mild spoilers but it's intended to be safe for those who have yet to watch the series.
Netflix's new original series Marco Polo is good, not great. And while good is certainly welcome in most any form, this has been a year of great TV. And so in this instance, while also considering Polo's hefty $90 million dollar price tag, good may not cut it.
Firstly though, I offer this. Marco Polo, about the famed explorer's early years as part of Kublai Khan's court, gets better as it goes along. I fear a lot of preliminary reviews were correct in saying that the show is a drag, because it is for a while. It takes about four or five episodes for the characters surrounding Polo to rise above just being assorted scowling faces and gruff voices in the Khan's service and develop into more rounded characters, and for Polo to slink into the background a bit allowing others to become the focus. So while advance reviews, which would have been based on the six episodes released to the press, may have been correct about the show being a bit of a weighty snoozer, the back half of the season is the best part.
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So did Netflix fumble here by merely making an okay-to-good series? Where Polo stumbles the hardest is in its storytelling, which modern TV viewers, particularly Netflix watchers, have perhaps come to value over expansive scenery and giant production. And for me, the story was weakest during the first four episodes. The Polo-heavy ones. I'm giving ...
IGN's Matt Fowler gives a mixed review of Netflix's historical drama series Marco Polo, praising its production values and action scenes, but criticizing its slow pace and predictable plot. He finds the show gets better as it goes along, but still lacks the wit and depth of Game of Thrones.
Our review: Parents say ( 5 ): Kids say ( 1 ): Launched in the wake of critically acclaimed Netflix series such as House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, Marco Polo seeks to capitalize on the streaming service's forward momentum as a maker of popular original content. But, although the sweeping period drama boasts stunning vistas ...
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Dec 11, 2014 · Filmed in Kazakhstan, Malaysia and Venice, Marco Polo looks like it took the riches of east and west to make. (Reports put the season’s price tag at $90 million.) The vistas are stupendous, the ...
