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- 2023
- TV-14
- Apple TV+
- 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
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6.8
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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38% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
68
62% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
38% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 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 44 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
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14% Mixed
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18% Negative
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8 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 44 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
14% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
18% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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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.
When the series clicks, as it frequently does in the eight of ten episodes provided for review, it feels like a mid-century choose-your-own-adventure novel, the kind of pulp that immersed us in a world that felt like our own, right up until it didn’t.
Not quite the MonsterVerse’s high point, but far from its low point either, with some satisfying longform worldbuilding — and a hugely enjoyable dual performance from Kurt and Wyatt Russell.
Let’s hope the remaining episodes of the season cut to the chase but quick — as is, it feels like a leg of the MonsterVerse that chooses to place its focus too heavily on the human half of the equation. There’s still little sense of what Monarch is or does even five episodes in, and whether they’re meant to be a threat or boon to humanity.
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.
Amazing show the characters are very fun and im very hooked on the show. I hope it continues
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The poor acting and production value make this show completely unwatchable.
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Poor acting by horrible actors (WOKE CULTURE QUOTA), something has to be wrong with you to believe that the characters have any sort of chemistry, Boring plot, slow pace & atrocious writing (zero logic) makes this show unwatchable. In a movie about monsters, in 4 episodes I watched 1 maybe 2 minute of monsters/kaijus on screen. It is a shame that Apple wasted 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 horrible writing. It's insane that writers have the courage to protest for better pay when they produce such garbage.
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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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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
