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Monarch Legacy of Monsters Season 1 (2023) TV Series Review
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The rumble of monstrous footsteps and the tremors of a changing world have echoed onto the small screen in Apple TV+’s “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” This new series serves as both expansion and exploration of Legendary’s Toho universe, the sprawling cinematic world where creatures that were once only myths — Godzilla, King Kong, and the Titans of Skull Island — now roam with stunning and destructive reality.
“Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” doesn’t just tread familiar ground. Instead, it carves its own path with a story centered around Monarch, the shadowy government organization dedicated to tracking and, sometimes, protecting these titans. The show’s narrative unfolds across two timelines — one in the wake of 2014’s Godzilla, with hints of the events to come in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong, and the others delving into the 1950s to reveal the secret origins of Monarch itself.
The series stars Anna Sawai as Cate, a young woman with a mysterious connection to Monarch following her harrowing survival of Godzilla’s attack on San Francisco. Haunted by this experience, she journeys to Japan to uncover her family’s legacy and their ties to the secretive organization. This investigation…
