Reporting from JOHOR, Malaysia — At its peak more than 800 years ago, the realm of the Mongols stretched from central Europe to China, from Siberia to the Indian subcontinent, encompassing nearly ...

OK, so we're all watching Marco Polo solely because of the Chinese characters, right, because the only thing that the show really nails is turning the Yuan Dynasty's medieval Chinese empire into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahmad, the chief antagonist of “Marco Polo” season 2 on Netflix, is a great, layered character. At the end of season 1, it was ...

In the midsection of the second season of “Marco Polo,” during the episode “Let God’s Work Begin,” viewers are thrown quite a wild card when Gabriel Byrne makes an appearance as Pope Gregory X in Acre ...

In December Netflix released an entire season of its original series Marco Polo, perhaps hoping to entice winter’s binge viewers. The show’s big budget reflects big aspirations: Net­flix is reaching ...

Season 1 of Marco Polo brought the famous Italian explorer into the court of emperor Kublai Khan, and wound up earning his respect over the course of the 10 episodes. But according to the Season 2 ...

Basically Kublai Khan: The Show as told by the only non-Asian in the cast, Netflix’s dreadful Marco Polo is another in a long line of shows/films about an ‘ethnically different’ culture seen through ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Marco Polo's instructions are clear enough: "Watch and remember what you see," commands the gouty but still formidable Kublai Khan (Benedict Wong), whose Mongol warrior hordes control most of ...

This is a full, non-spoiler review for all 10 episodes of Marco Polo: Season 2, now available on Netflix. For those who've already binged the entire season and want to read my thoughts about the way ...