Production on the second season of the Monsterverse series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has finished. Apple TV+ made the announcement with a photo of some of its cast among the devastated set. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters spans three generations and explores the buried secrets behind the mysterious Monarch organisation and their encounters with Godzilla and various other […]
Apple TV+ renews Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, with multiple MonsterVerse spin-off series planned
Coming on the heels of the success of the first season, as well as the recent big screen feature Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Apple TV+ has announced that it has renewed Legendary Entertainment’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for a second season, while plans are also afoot for multiple addition series set within the […]
Monach: Legacy of Monsters Episode 10 Review – ‘Beyond Logic’
Chris Connor reviews the season finale of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters… Monarch’s first season has been a patchy affair, although far more human driven than any of the MonsterVerse films, it has felt like a slight lack in Kaiju action with more brief interludes or bookends than full on action. Perhaps a limitation of the […]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 9 Review – ‘Axis Mundi’
Chris Connor reviews the penultimate episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 1… Monarch’s penultimate episode opens with a 10 minute plus sequence set with the younger Lee Shaw and Bill Randa, having lost Bill’s wife Keiko into the Hollow Earth. The sequence is meant to be reminiscent of the Apollo missions goes awry with […]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 8 Review – ‘Birthright’
Chris Connor reviews the eighth episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters… As we head towards the endpoint of Monarch’s first season we get some answers to questions that have been permeating throughout. We get more of a focus on younger Lee Shaw, Keiko and Bill Randa in the 1950s. We find out that Bill is […]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 7 Review – ‘Will the Real May Please Stand Up?’
Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters… After a double dose of Godzilla in the previous episode, episode seven of Monarch’s first season takes a more sedate pace with a more character-driven narrative. Initially seemingly unconnected to the larger series arc, it becomes clear it is all connected and it will […]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 6 Review – ‘Terrifying Miracles’
Chris Connor reviews the sixth episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters… After a couple of episodes entirely centred around the 2015 timeline of the show, episode sixgives us a sizable chunk of the mid 1950s and our younger versions of Lee Shaw, Bill Randa and Keiko Miura. The trio continue to investigate the Titans and […]
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 5 Review – ‘The Way Out’
Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters… After barely surviving Alaska’s conditions, not to mention a Titan in the previous episode, things take a more sedate pace for our protagonists as Monarch reaches its midpoint. We can see the continued seeds of mistrust between the organisation itself and Cate and Kentaro. […]
Godzilla unleashed in new Monarch: Legacy of Monsters trailer
With Monarch: Legacy of Monsters now as its midway point, Apple TV+ has released a trailer for the remaining six episodes of the MonsterVerse series, which arrives hot on the heels of yesterday’s first trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Between these and Godzilla Minus One, the King of the Monsters is everywhere […]
Exclusive Interview – Monarch: Legacy of Monsters composer Leopold Ross
To celebrate the release of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters we sat down with composer Leopold Ross to discuss his involvement in the series and the challenges of balancing the Kaiju action with more introspective human moments and the differences posed by a 10-episode series compared to a feature film. How did you kind of get […]
