It is indeed a shame that Netflix had to cancel probably the only the historical showpiece it had in its kitty. A showpiece, so much so that it is almost a masterpiece.
I am not sure why people here or elsewhere think that this show should not be classified as history genre. Specially when it is an agreed fact amongst historians that even the works of actual Marco Polo could have been closer to fiction than the actual truth. Mind you, this is an Empire(which was the world's largest land empire till the British empire in 1920) from history which has not been touched at all by movie or television. All this is while things like the Roman Empire, WW2 have been beaten up like a dead war horse.
With the sheer amount of work that simply went into researching, design, direction and then putting all that together in editing so it all fits beautifully together - it is indeed a shame that this had to end at Season 2.
I am not sure why people here or elsewhere think that this show should not be classified as history genre. Specially when it is an agreed fact amongst historians that even the works of actual Marco Polo could have been closer to fiction than the actual truth. Mind you, this is an Empire(which was the world's largest land empire till the British empire in 1920) from history which has not been touched at all by movie or television. All this is while things like the Roman Empire, WW2 have been beaten up like a dead war horse.
With the sheer amount of work that simply went into researching, design, direction and then putting all that together in editing so it all fits beautifully together - it is indeed a shame that this had to end at Season 2.