The show wasn’t a hit with critics but fans generally enjoyed the story of Marco Polo during his time spent with Mongolian ruler Kublai Khan, but the two-season series wasn’t enough of a hit for Netflix and the Weinstein Company, who together, according to The Hollywood Reporter, lost an astounding $200 million on the series.
There was a time in which Netflix didn’t cancel too many of its shows before they finished telling their individual stories, and then came along the epic period drama that was likened to Game Of Thrones, the ill-fated and expensive Marco Polo, which according to the New York Times, cost a staggering $90 million per 10-episode season back in 2015.