Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters (2023) Review

Episode 4, Parallels and Interiors

By Mark

We are on the mountain, the very cold mountain, with older Shaw, Kurt Russell, (“Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood”, “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2”), Cate, Anna Sawai (“Pachinko (TV)”, “Girl/Haji (TV)”), Kentaro, Ren Watabe (“461 Lunch Boxes”), and Kentaro’s on/off girlfriend/friend May, Kiersey Clemons (“Dope”, “The Flash”).

On getting lost they decide to split up, mainly because Kentaro is convinced he’s seen something and can’t convince the others that it’s true. So he goes one way, they go the other.

Alongside this we are flipping to 2015 when Kentaro and May first met and how their relationship, such as it is, came to be. To be honest, this feels an unnecessary distraction, but then the time on the mountain looks very fake so perhaps not such a bad thing.

May gets injured on the mountain, whilst Kentaro struggles to reach what he thinks he saw.

We are also watching Monarch as an obscure outpost registers readings that matched what they saw before the ‘big’ event in San Francisco, the big attack by the titans.

Together with what the quartet are seeing on the ice, it looks like something big is about to occur with the titans and it seems like only a handful of people want to know about it, or do anything about it.

Not the best episode of Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters, things looked very ‘studio’, the acting was a tad under-par and nothing really served to grab me and keep my interest.

We’ll see where things go after this, I’m sure some of you will guess what happens before it actually does. Despite the promise, and the decent episode last time out, I’m not enthralled by Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters. There’s just about enough to keep my interest but I’m not wowed by it that’s for sure.