There are grand epic events and scenes throughout the first season. The show is just filled with really entertaining moments like that. I’ve watched the first season twice and I became giddy the second time just waiting for it to happen. How this is accomplished in the show in the finale made me very excited. The plot is centered around Kublai Khan fighting some dissent/internal schemes against him while also trying to take a Walled City that Genghis could not take. What else is going on in the show asides from a ton of great characters? He is an inspirational leader one would want to follow.Īnyway, enough of my undying reverence for Kublai Khan. He is so complex and I understand completely why all the other characters pledge loyalty to him, for better or for worse. His struggles, choices, wisdom, and beliefs are beautiful to watch unfold on the screen. Benedict Wong gives a definitive performance of this leader who is striving to live up to the lofty ideals of his grandfather, the great Genghis Khan. It is hard for me to describe him objectively because he is one of my favorite characters of all time. I didn’t mention in detail the true star, Kublai Khan. They all felt like people to me, which is very important.īut that is just the side cast, the semi-main, semi-supporting characters. I understood them, I may not have agreed with them, but I wanted to see where they ended up. There wasn’t a character that I felt strong hatred for. The other characters include a wry blind monk, a prince struggling to deal with his Chinese upbringing and Mongol identity, a Chinese concubine who is trying to escape the clutches of her scheming brother, a warmongering Chinese Chancellor, a princess with a past that haunts her, and many more characters with backstories and personalities fleshed out. The star is Kublai Khan and all the other characters. Likable, to be sure, and the actor, who is actually Italian, does a good enough job and feels right in his role, but Marco Polo is not the star of Marco Polo. Yes, the show is titled after him, but the character is neither interesting nor the main focus.
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Typically in movies and TV shows the white male protagonist is the lead and most noticeable. However, the main character is still white, yet this isn’t handled as it normally would. It is basically 90% Asian and 10% of other races. The casting is, of course, diverse in the sense it is not 90% white and 10% minority. Although the history is iffy, there is some surprising authenticity in the culture of the places shown and the casting of the characters. The general events still happen, but in broad strokes. It is a dramatization of a fiction/tall tale, so prepare for things to go off the rails and for history to be ignored and not to care one bit. Marco Polo is, well, the fictionalized account of Marco Polo’s potentially fictional adventures in Kublai Khan’s court. I recommend it completely.Īnd why do I like it so much? Well, here comes my totally-not-biased review of the first season of this Netflix Original Series. Okay, I have to start off this by saying that I’m a big fan of Netflix’s Marco Polo.
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