For every Squid Game or Stranger Things, there’s plenty of Netflix originals that should’ve never seen the light of day. Here’s five of them.
Marco Polo
Remember when Netflix tried to compete with Game of Thrones? The streaming service dropped an eye-watering $200 million on this historical drama full of sex, violence and intrigue based on Marco Polo’s years in the court of Kublai Khan. Viewers opted to simply avoid a copycat of the HBO hit, and critics concluded it was “less entertaining than a round of the game that shares its name,” leading to its later cancellation. Ouch. Maybe the creators should’ve added some dragons?
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This sci-fi drama starred Jennette McCurdy (of iCarly fame) as a pregnant teen who lives in a town where one day, everyone older than 21 starts dying. The town is quarantined by the government as the teens
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