Polo lacks the wit and teeth of Thrones' words while often falling back on predictable tropes of the trade.
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Some have, due to the scale and cost of production, called this series "Netflix's Game of Thrones" - though the similarities stop with the era and the globe-trotting. So trouble in various forms find Polo without him actively looking for conflict. And how does does he become the target of both jealously and love? By simply existing as a handsome outsider who doesn't directly want to bother anyone. Play Polo, played by Italian actor Lorenzo Richelmy, is abandoned by his father in a foreign land where he makes an enemy of a sneering prince while also catching the eye of a fair maiden. A shameful amount when you consider the effort put into this extravagant project. Coupled with the fact that his "fish out of water" story follows way too many familiar beats. And a large part of that has to do with Polo himself being the least engaging character. But I did indeed find myself enjoying the series much more at the end than at the beginning. Marco Polo Star's Assassin's Creed DreamsI also readily admit that saying a show gets good if you can get past the first half of the season is faint praise. 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. 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. I fear a lot of preliminary reviews were correct in saying that the show is a drag, because it is for a while. Marco Polo, about the famed explorer's early years as part of Kublai Khan's court, gets better as it goes along.
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