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 ...

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 ...

A stately pleasure dome decree. These words, from English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem Kubla Khan, paint a romantic picture of the medieval Chinese emperor Kublai Khan, grandson of the ...

If “Marco Polo” has a protagonist at this point — and I’m not saying it does — then it’s probably Kublai Khan. (Don’t bother reminding me what the name of the show is. I’ll just tell you it’s called ...

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 ...