Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Even though I really liked the show, the good parts of the show was really good and deserved to be part of a much better show. Kurt and Wyatt Russel playing past and future versions of a character was really charming. But it was Mari Yamamoto who stole the show every time she appeared on screen, so much so that her appearance was what I was looking forward more like the occasional appearance of the monsters. But for all those good parts and the monster mayhem, there's so much things that are handled very badly. The human drama might not have been that bad when it was conceived but a lot of the situations were very forced and a lot of the dialogues were utter trash. The first three episodes were consistently of great quality and it was after that the quality dropped suddenly. Even though in totality, I thought it was good, it's a show that had great potential that ruined itself.

The series is generally OK and worth watching.

It doesn't blow you away, but it can entertain you and as someone who follows the Warner Bros. MonsterVerse there was no way around it.

I would rate the series 7 out of 10 stars.

It is solid and can entertain.

It also answers one or two questions and, as with big franchises, it also raises many new ones.

The story is OK and the characters are run-of-the-mill to "OK".

What I consider to be a big problem is that this series is absolutely irrelevant in the canon and basically they didn't even need to create it in the first place.

You can tell that the series only exists to further develop the franchise and, even worse, that it basically has no impact on the story as a whole.

But at least it has Kurt Russell. ^^

This is a great series to watch if you're stuck on a plane with nothing else to do. It filmed better than most of the generic blockbusters but it has the writing of a CW show.

On the acting side, I am a diehard Kurt Russell fan, however, Wyatt steals every scene he's in and was the sole standout of the show. Joe Tippett, Anders Holm, Anna Sawai, and Mari Yamamoto are able to lift their thinly written characters, and Kiersey Clemons is serviceable in a role where her character sucks. However, Ren Watabe is a standout for all the wrong reasons. His wooden delivery behind a nonsense annoying character really took me out of any scene.

With all that said, it's worth watching if you like spinoff streamers that have more dialogue and less action than their movie counterparts, and it's worth watching Kurt and Wyatt Russell play the same character.

It's supposed to be a show about monsters! If for some unfathomable reason it gets renewed for the second season, please remove all the boring stuff and add more monsters! Nobody watches a show about Kaijus for the personal drama. Unnecessary flashbacks into the unnecessary drama aspect. Monarch backstory might be interesting if not for the romantic line, please drop it.

Keep Kurt Russel, he's a cool grandpa.

I'm giving it 6 only for some glimpses of monsters here and there.

I like to hope the show continues, but improves over this boring and dragging piece it is now. The makers of the show can do much better, they made the trailer, way to go, folks!

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is every bit as good as I was hoping for. It takes place after the Godzilla movie that became out a few years ago. Monarch is the agency that researches and tracks other titan monsters such as Godzilla. The series follows several of those Monarch agents. It covers when monarch was originally formed in the 1950's and also after the last Godzilla movie in the 2010's. A-list actor Kurt Russell plays a monarch agent in tr my oday's world and his real life son Wyatt Russell plays a younger version of his character in the 1950's. Both Russell's are terrific. In fact, the entire cast is great. This series does exactly what it set out to do and that is expand this monster universe and make people excited for what comes next. I hope they do several seasons of this.