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- 2023
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- 2023
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- 2023
- TV-14
- Apple TV+
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 17, 2023
69
7.3
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
69
64% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
36% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
69
64% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
36% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The people are actually fun to follow in Apple TV+’s MonsterVerse spin-off Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, which premieres November 17. And Godzilla is in the show! You get to see Godzilla every few episodes! And other monsters!
Where the big-screen American films can be a noisy, dark slog, the dramatic equivalent of a giant lumbering dinosaur, “Monarch” stays fleet, and fun.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
7.3
72% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
13% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
16% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 User Ratings
7.3
72% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
13% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
16% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Amazing show the characters are very fun and im very hooked on the show. I hope it continues
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Monarch’s story does get a little dense at times with lots of scientific lingo being thrown around, leaving us lost in the weeds. Plus, I have to admit my eyes glazed over with all the talk about the shadowy corporation called Monarch that secretly monitors the beasts. But Russell’s natural charm and sly sense of humor go a long way towards cutting through all that and making the whole thing work.
Through most of “Monarch,” those contradictions are not balanced in a way that makes consistently satisfying narrative and emotional sense, perhaps because of the demands of maintaining suspense across 10 episodes. You can put the gnawing questions aside, however, when Yamamoto, Holm and Wyatt Russell are making classic movie-matinee moves in the flashbacks, and whenever the truly impressive monsters rear their scaly heads in any time frame.
Even with Apple’s sizable investment, it too often feels like a gigantic donut with a Godzilla-shaped hole in the middle.
Across 10 hours of a story this convoluted, filled with characters who never fully connect, it’s easy to feel our own insignificance — but it would still be nice to see a great big Godzilla-sized spectacle to distract us.
Light on destructive colossuses and heavy on dull dual-timeline drama, it’s a footnote affair that fills in trivial narrative gaps and focuses on its least compelling participants—and, in doing the latter, manages to largely squander both Wyatt Russell and his father Kurt.
Apple+. Nobody uses this. The production value and budget of this series shows. It has more talking and human drama nonsense than a soap opera. Toho should be in charge of this mfranchise, not repeat failed Legendary. For proper series production, watch Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Fargo, etc. not this low quality junk.
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The poor acting and production value make this show completely unwatchable.
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Horrible, boring, slow pace & writing , every conversation is atrocious and inhumane soundlike. Srsly it's written by chatGPT or a 3rd grader. It has all The Message possible everywhere possible and diverse bad bit** characters possible.
Most of the acting is eye gouging.I could not get myself to watch the third **** first episodes have the same annoying back and forth into time , back before and then into present again that The Witcher first season had. It's frustrating and tiresome and most it uninteresting.
It is a shame and a travesty that Apple wastes so much money on such poorly and shallow quality product. The Sound and Special effects are good, i feel kind of bad that artists and tech engineers have their work spoiled by such braindead writing.I do not recommend this, better watch any other anime or manga out there about Japan or Godzilla, you'll feel better.
Hollywood is dead and now we're seeing it's corpse puppeteered around.
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The first episode is really boring. It feels like some family sentimental drama. There are way too many flash backs which do not add anything to the plot. The characters are mostly dull and predictable. The story is confused and marginal as the audience already know what the characters are finding on the show
And there are no epic kaijus
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Production Company:
- Legendary Television
- Safehouse Pictures
- Toho Company
- Warner Bros. Discovery
Initial Release Date: Nov 17, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
