borgolarici

The production values is impressive: costumes, locations, props... everything is super believable and screams expensive. The cast is also doom a great job for the most part.

That said, I can understand why it wasn't renewed for a final season and kinda flopped. Imho the problem was taking the Marco Polo legend and completely betray its premises: traditionally considered a symbol of human curiosity and desire for exploration, here he becomes an action hero with a naive storyline. A show based solely on the story of Khan, with some more accuracy, would have been the winning solution. As it is, it becomes boring and loses momentum.

Mildly amusing, easy to follow with some genuinely super funny moments. The first season are the best ones, it kind loses its charm after Bob and Abishola marry.

However it must be said that there is absolutely ZERO chemistry between the whole cast. The main couple isn't just believable at all and everyone seems to be overly aggressive even during light hearted banter scenes. I wonder if it's just due to poor direction of if the climate on set was actually meh.

The cultural conflict angle is mostly funny but sometimes, again, there's this tension that I'm not sure was intentional.

It works week as a background noise.