The first few minutes of Marco Polo , Netflix’s new $90 million medieval drama , are bloody. Battered by a long journey, our titular hero and his band have just come upon a village full of slaughtered peasants. Moments later, riders on horseback emerge from a sandstorm like ghosts, and, save for Marco and his merchant father and uncle, slay the entire group in a flurry of arrows. The scene is brutal, almost otherworldly, and there’s a palpable sense of terror as the surviving trio is taken as... Continue reading…
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