Monarch: Legacy of Monsters brings the Warner Bros. MonsterVerse film series, recently of Godzilla vs. Kong fame, to the small screen via Apple TV+, with a story divided between the aftermath of 2014’s Godzilla reboot and the initial investigation of giant monsters in the late 1950s. Humans have never been the strong suit of this franchise, but Monarch does its best to thread some ground-level stories into the occasional monster mashing.
Opening Shot: Grainy aerial footage (including shots of King Kong himself) taken during a 1973 journey to Skull Island – a trip more thoroughly chronicled in Kong: Skull Island but revisited for the first episode’s opening scene.
The Gist: Monarch is the secret organization that’s spent decades tracking the emergence of Titans, ancient monsters who (we learned in Godzilla vs. Kong) enter our world from the Hollow Earth hidden beneath us. The first episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters follows the company’s work related to two different events depicted in the 2014 Godzilla, featuring two different teams of three. In the late 1950s, a nascent Monarch team of Lee Shaw (Wyatt Russell), Bill Randa (Anders…
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