‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ New Trailer and First Impressions
Coinciding with the New York Comic-Con panel on the series on Friday, Apple TV Plus revealed a brand-new trailer for their new series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
The series is structured in two different timelines, one of them back in the 1950s as they start to untangle some of the mysteries of this planet and the ancient beasts that inhabit it, and another in 2015, shortly after the Godzilla attack on San Francisco. I’ve now had the chance to see the first two episodes of the series (five are available for press at this time, but due to time constraints I’ve only knocked out two so far) and so far, I’m intrigued.
The series is kept alive by the mystery box elements surrounding the Monarch organization, which our 2015 characters are trying to uncover. This half of the series is by far the more interesting, as it fully exploits the series format and the concept behind it: How would one live in a world where monsters are real and they could attack at any point? Anna Sawai plays the lead of this subplot, and hers is by far the most interesting character, as she juggles her past traumatic experience with Godzilla in San Francisco with new revelations about her family.
But things become a little more conventional and by-the-numbers when we go back to the 1950s to meet Wyatt Russell, Anders Holm, and Mari Yamamoto as three of the people who first discovered the secrets lying beneath our feet and beyond our shores. The former plays a soldier in charge of protecting and overseeing the latter two, and the script is hardly imagintive here, giving them the stereotypical conversations between an officer and a scientist in a territory where they each thing they have ownership.
Regardless, this is only the beginning and things could change from here. Stay tuned as I’ll have a full season review ready right before the show comes out on November 17. In the meantime, you can check out the new trailer for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters here:
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
