Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

The MonsterVerse goes prestige — Godzilla and Kong meet the Randa family, episode by episode

Apple TV+ 2023 10 episodes reviewed
EPISODE 01

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1E1 Review: Aftermath Opens the MonsterVerse's Human Wing

A 1950s Geiger-counter expedition and a post-G-Day Tokyo apartment share a hard drive, a dead father, and a chamber under the Kazakh steppe.

EPISODE 02

Monarch S1E2 Review: A Hunt for Dragons Finds a Ghost Ship

A 1950s radiation chase in the Philippines and a present-day kidnapping in Tokyo lock the show's dual timelines together around the wreck of the USS Lawton.

EPISODE 03

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1E3 Review: Castle Bravo and the Family Curse

Shaw breaks the Randa kids out of Monarch and toward Alaska while a 1950s flashback shows Keiko, Billy, and young Lee watching the Army weaponize their discover

EPISODE 04

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1E4 Review: A Titan Hunts Heat in Alaska

The fourth hour strands the survivors in Alaskan tundra, threads a tender Tokyo flashback through the freeze, and finally lets the show name what its Titan actu

EPISODE 05

Monarch S1E5 Review: The Way Out Is Always Through

A return to the wreckage of San Francisco forces Cate to walk through the city Godzilla ate, and the Randa siblings find the map their father was drawing all al

EPISODE 06

Monarch S1E6 Review: Suzuki Calls Godzilla, And The Bomb Fails

A 1950s ballroom, a Saharan rendezvous, and a gamma-radiation lure converge on the episode that finally puts Monarch's founding sin in the same frame as its pre

EPISODE 07

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1E7 Review: May Becomes Corah and the Curtain Comes Down

The hunt for a missing friend cracks open a stolen name, a corporate blackmail, and Monarch's first deliberate step into the daylight.

EPISODE 08

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S1E08 Review: Kazakhstan, the Portal, and the Bigger-on-the-Inside Theory

The penultimate hour finally lets Billy and Keiko name what they've been seeing for two decades while the present-day team walks straight into a reactor full of

EPISODE 09

Monarch S1E9 Review: Operation Hourglass and the Cost of Going Under

A 1962 mission swallows three lives, returns one twenty years late, and lets the season's grief finally find a voice.

EPISODE 10

Monarch S1E10 Review: The Way Out Costs One More Shaw

Keiko walks back into 2015 because her granddaughter found her. Lee Shaw walks off the hopper because somebody has to lure the Titan, and the season ends with a

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