Netflix’s 10-episode first season of original series Marco Polo will premiere at 12:01 AM PT on December 12. Based on the famed explorer’s adventures in Kublai Khan’s court in 13th century China, Marco Polo stars Italian newcomer Lorenzo Richelmy Marco. Zhu Zhu (Cloud Atlas), Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) and Benedict Wong (Prometheus) also star along with Remy Hii, Olivia Cheng, Claudia Kim, Uli Latukefu, Chin Han and Tom Wu. Creator John Fusco and Harvey Weinstein are exec producers along with Dan Minahan (Game Of Thrones, True Blood) who directed two first season episodes. Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg helmed the season’s first two episodes and also serve as exec producers. Patrick MacManus serves as co-executive producer. Collin Creighton produced on behalf of The Weinstein Company.
Visuals/production values look great. Everything else.. who knows?
BTW, shot in Italy, Kazakhstan and Malaysia.. a glimpse into what Netflix will also attempt to do with Sense8.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
Creatively, it’s just a middling mess — something so average that a basic cable channel could have duplicated it without all the foreign travel for about $84 million less.
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When the writing lets Marco Polo down — which is pretty much at every turn — there’s a bevy of naked women on hand (of course, the men stay mostly clothed). One character, Mei Lin (Olivia Cheng), is naked so often it’s jarring to see her clothed. She even gets to do some murderous kung fu and master very sharp blades while fully naked, which is impressive.
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But the actors in Marco Polo suffer from the dialogue they're forced to utter. Like the wife who pleads, “Give me the nectar,” to her husband as they have sex. Or Chen’s lines about Khan’s brother needing to be “trampled by a thousand horses and left on the steps to rot.” He is, as she said earlier, a dog who would “eat his own afterbirth.”
In the local brothel — or some Hall of Five Desires nonsense — the concubines are told to “perform as though your life depends upon it; it also likely does.”
Marco himself is scolded once thusly: “Steer your eyes from her visage. She is beyond your reach.”
A favorite, however, comes when Marco is wrestling a beautiful woman (just go with it), who really kicks ass. According to local Chinese dictates, he who can best her in wrestling can have her, sexually. Seriously, her dad even said so. Says she: “And the women you’ve conquered — do they melt in your hands?” To which Marco says, without laughing: “Like snow in the desert.”
OK, then.
#ikant
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
Btw, check metacritics Spartacus critic reviews ratings. And then check viewers ratings
I loved Spartacus.
I tell you, men, it is probably a must see show..
That could be the case, but with such a strong consensus about the writing sucking balls, it's safe to say one should go in with the lowest expectations possible.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
yea writing was crappy in spartacus too, and the acting
but thanks to the excessive gore and sex it was a very entertaining, absolutely brainless show.
first season of spartacus was basically mortal kombat as a fun tv show
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) like that last feature suggests near the end.
I always expect the worst lol
