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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Theme (feat. Godzilla's Theme)
// Ani Sandwalker (2024)
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I put on the first couple of episodes of MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS, Chris Black and Matt Fraction's cumbersomely titled Godzilla spinoff show (which I guess is a follow-on to the 2014 American GODZILLA movie, which I haven't seen). I thought it would be fun, but so far it mostly feels pretty hackish: It appears heavily inspired by the Warren Ellis/John Cassady Wildstorm comic PLANETARY, but everything about the narrative structure is unnecessarily convoluted and cryptic, presumably in an effort to seem interesting; none of the present-day characters' motivations make any sense; the flashback sequences are tiresome; and three episodes in, the main story has yet to develop any actual direction or urgency, so it's mostly just flailing about. Also, for a Toho-licensed spinoff of a quintessential Japanese monster franchise, it's awfully dismissive of and condescending towards its Japanese characters, especially the ones who aren't Japanese-American.
I dunno — I've liked the (brief) parts where Godzilla shows up, but the gaijin-to-Gojira ratio is disproportionately high, and the script and acting are only slightly above the SHARKNADO level.
#teevee#hateration holleration#matt fraction#chris black#monarch legacy of monsters#godzilla#planetary#toho monsters#wildstorm#i'd heard there were going to be lesbians#but i'm still waiting#not having watched the 2014 american film is of course on me#but i think it's reasonable to expect this kind of spinoff#to at least give you a brief recap#to let know know what the hell you're looking at
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Apple 🍎 TV 📺 Presents The World 🌎
With The Next Chapter Of The MONSTER 👹 VERSE 🐉🦍
THE SECRET ORGANIZATION THAT HAS BEEN TRACKING , & KEEPING RECORDS OF THE MASSIVE CREATURES WHO RULED OUR EARTH 🌎 LONG AGO
THE TITANS
FOR MANY YEARS THE ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN MONITORING THE GODLIKE CREATURES
WITHOUT THEIR WHEREABOUTS BEING SEEN OR HEARD OF FROM THE VIEWING PUBLIC OF THE WORLD 🌎
UNTIL IN 2014
AFTER THE ATTACK ON SAN FRANCISCO 🌉 🌁
GODZILLA 🐲 THE KING OF THE MONSTERS 👹
SAVED THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD & SAN FRANCISCO
BUT MORE MONSTROUS THREATS ARE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
A YOUNG WOMAN WHO SURVIVED GODZILLA'S ATTACK
WILL EMBRAK ON A GLOBETROTTING ADVENTURE TO LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT HER FAMILY 👪 & THE MYSTERIOUS ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS
MONARCH 🦋
SOME SECRETS CANNOT BE CONTAINED
APPLE 🍎 TV PRESENTS
MONARCH : LEGACY OF MONSTERS 👹 #MonarchLegacyOfMonsters #Godzilla #Kaiju #MonsterVerse
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// Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Season 1 (2023-2024)
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Part of the reason the title MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS keeps throwing me is that just last year, there was a short-lived Fox nighttime soap called MONARCH, about the travails of a powerful country music family, the Romans. It was presumably an attempt to recapture the success of the 2015–2020 Fox series EMPIRE (about a powerful hip-hop family, the Lyons) with a different soundtrack and a much whiter cast.
The main reason I bothered with MONARCH, which lasted only 11 episodes, is that it allegedly starred Susan Sarandon as domineering matriarch Dottie Roman. Unfortunately, her character dies after the first episode, shifting the focus to her prickly, laconic husband Albie (Trace Adkins, not nearly charismatic enough for his underwritten part); their ambitious but perennially overreaching business manager son Luke (Joshua Sasse, blandly handsome); and their adult daughters, Nicky (Anna Friel), a neurotic mess the family label is reluctant to promote because they think she's too brittle, and Gigi (Beth Ditto), who has talent and charisma to burn, but only cares about performing if it'll get a rise out a rise out of her sister, preferring to be a stay-at-home mom while her wife Kayla (Meagan Holder) works as a Monarch PR exec — and secretly pursues an affair with Luke that Gigi knows nothing about. There's also a fairly icky subplot about Nicky's adoptive son Ace (Iñigo Pascual) falling for an ambitious young country singer (Emma Milani) who turns out to be Albie's granddaughter, which seems like entirely too much incest for a show that barely lasted one season.
If Sarandon had been a regular, MONARCH might still have worked, but without Dottie's ongoing presence to drive the character conflicts (many of which are ultimately about her!), what's left is a clunky throwback to DALLAS or DYNASTY whose splashy musical numbers aren't exciting enough to compensate for one-note characterization and a distinct shortage of the fireworks that made EMPIRE a hit. Also, there's something disingenuous about the way the show tries to assert that while everyone in Nashville seems to regard Gigi being fat as a grave PR crisis, nobody in the notoriously conservative country music business has any problem with her being a lesbian married to a Black woman. Sure, Jan.
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