Daniel Chin

everybody this is daniel chin and for this month i'm recommending season two of monarch legacy of monsters this apple tv plus show is returning after more than a two-year hiatus and during that time anna sawai had her emmy award-winning breakout in fx's shogun and she's back to lead this cast which also includes kurt and wyatt russell who play the same character across multiple timelines which is always fun if you haven't seen this show before it's

Set in the Monsterverse, which I know is a pretty bad name for a cinematic universe, but it is Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures monster movies that often center on either Godzilla or King Kong or sometimes Godzilla and King Kong.

Luckily, if you haven't seen those movies, you'll be fine for this show.

And if you have, it fills in a lot of fun details because it does center on Monarch, which is the organization that follows the Titans and that's central to a lot of these movies.

And it gets into the founding members as well as their descendants across the multiple timelines.

But really, this show is just exactly what you expect it to be, and that's what I like about it.

It gives you everything you could want out of a series like this.

All the fun of having all the CGI monsters on the big screen, it's still a lot of the same level of quality that you'll get from that, even though it's just a TV show.

It's certainly not prestige television.

It has a lot of flaws.

There's so many frustrating...

plot points or character developments that happen.

But it's just a lot of fun and it's an easy escape at the end of the day.

And with season two, it's a lot more of the same.

There's more monsters.

There's even some King Kong appearances here and there.

So, I mean, if you haven't seen season one, it's a perfect binge watch.

And if you are all caught up for season two, definitely tap back in if you want to see more of the same.

Check it out.

I thought it was a pretty good episode overall.