The Reel Rejects - MONARCH Legacy Of Monsters 1x10 Breakdown & Review

Episode Date: January 12, 2024

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All right. Well, John just watched Monarch Legacy of Katie Cantaro. truly and um i thought that this was i don't think it's objectively the best episode i would say it's my i mean you can't really qualify anything as objective right uh and i i feel like there's parts of my brain that go no i think the last episode was the best one i was easily the most one i was easily the most emotion this is the first one that got me emotional about shit agree you know and it only took like 10 episodes to get there but i finally got emotional about it's like i found i really felt the emotions here this gave me some of my absolute favorite scenes this might be my favorite episode

i think if you're going to end the show they ended it strong and it might be my favorite episode of them all there's like more of like the sci-fi horror-esque qualities and mystery and stuff that look like other Apple TV shows I've heard good things about that feel a little like Westworldy of the last episode that I really love but yeah I was very pulled into this uh pretty much from beginning to end because I was actually really invested in the characters this time in everyone's uh interactions and Kay and Shaw like their scene work together was mesmerizing to me it was the it was the most dynamic and the sadness that had been overcome and the joy and shot's performance but also like the realization and pain of not realizing oh my god how much time i've lost and like the

about processing and having to survive like there was there's so much uh multiple layers occurring throughout each of their performances of like of course she's relieved to see him but she's also like so sad and he's just so happy to see her and he feels like he can finally die and like him dying and be willing to let go just keep her alive just to just to break out of her i'm like i believe that that he would let her go it's a bummer as an audience member but i was like man i was really bummed by that because i wanted him to give like a big f you to everyone yeah it really needed that godzilla showed up so you know it's the best one yeah well he's going to be back don't worry next season he's coming back they got to go back and find it

I love how Godzilla just showed up. I know. What is going on? Did you call my name? Over here. There's an opening happening here. I didn't authorize this portal here. Even there's a bunch of us.

I just like to show up at the nick of time. That's a good king right there. Always aware of what's happening in his kingdom. We're like, hey, let's fight. We do. We do Titans fight. Yeah, let them. Let them.

That's all they want to do. No, more civility to the Titans. No, there's big animals. Just fight. Yeah. It's a ready to rumble. Fight and eat and fight. It's a beautiful, ready to rumble world of fantasy.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. We should all be so lucky. Do you like it? Ciersie Clemens didn't make out with Kate. Yeah, so this show is homophobic, I think, because of that. No, I hated this episode. I would agree. I would agree with everything you just.

said, I think, yeah, the previous episode is probably, I would argue, like the best one in terms of being well-rounded and having the kind of tonal intrigue that you would hope for it, make you want to follow that rabbit hole. This episode, by comparison, does have beats that feel because it's the finale a bit brief or kind of rushed or short-lived, but I would certainly agree that this had the best most interesting emotional beats that required something that sort of like transcends most of what I associate with the show. And so yeah, to find ourselves in a couple of scenes having to process time dilation, having to process, you know, the slowing of age and the passing of time

and all this chaos and madness and monarch and legacy and family like all the different layers and shades and just the way that they're looking at each other and the way Kay is like studying his face during their scenes together because he is different now

but still spiritually the same guy like yeah there was just... I think that's why it was great to actually cast this was when I was like it was so smart to cast Wyatt and Kurt absolutely was because that makes that exceptionally more believable.

Yeah. It's like I wish this I wish this would have started in episode nine and like... Or gotten in there. Or sooner. Yeah.

Any... Yeah. In its current, most current iteration, I wish we started getting those kinds of moments that made this episode shine at least in the previous episode

because I can understand being like, well, you know, we'll save K till the end or something to finally reunite or whatever. whatever like it's cool to have her do the catnest thing at the end of the last episode but I feel like that could have happened at the end of the previous episode if we finagled a little bit and then really like I would have loved to have spent some time just down here with them for a whole episode and you could have had enough to do with feel that loss of like damn how much time had they lost and you're wondering yeah and never cut back to earth because then we don't know and and that would be pretty interesting and and I like the twist at the end of like oh man it's been another two years and and continuing that emotionality through to her reuniting briefly with Hiroshi and, you know, at least getting the whole, like, Kintaro's here too. He's your grandson. Yeah. Like all those things. Yeah. Like, she is just such a terrific, terrific actress, and she has been across this. And every moment of hers has typically brought with the kind of emotionality and the kind of impact. I think you hope a show like this could deliver across the port.

And, yeah, like, I think that once we start getting to the point where they're exiting and things are happening with Kurt Russell and you're drawing him into jeopardy, that's when I start to feel like the choice itself is appropriate, the execution is good in the moment, but feels rushed over all, which is a bummer because when you get these glimpses of things that are like truly, you just see through the veil and you see the moments where the show is working ideally. And then you're like, okay, I know you're capable of doing this. And now I wish that you had taken more of that nuance and flavor and, you know, noting the previous episode and some of that sci-fi horror strangeness. And really, yeah, peppered it through the entire season. Because once we're finally get to Hollow Earth, like it starts to feel appropriately kind of expanded.

And then you think back on the first few episodes and it just felt like we were spinning so many wheels by like running around the world, but saying a bunch of the same dialogue when we get there and then moving on again. Yeah. So yeah, this is like a maddening episode

because of the great qualities of it, almost. But yeah, you get your cool kaiju fight and we're home. And Bob's your uncle. Your requisite, Kaiju fight. You're very, very like.

You're very requisite. Didn't need it. But, you know, you kind of do because. Yeah. Because it's a monarchy, it's legacy of monsters with Godzilla tie in and just use, just have them show up. This is literally the shit that people complained about in like Star Wars shows and the other franchises, you know, Marvel, whatever. Sure.

It's just a cameo. It's like an unnecessary cameo. Yeah. It could have been any kaiju who did this. When it happens, you're like, what we need. it's weird on the other shows you're like

come on yes it's like cool but then you're like yeah come on but here on on this show in particular you're like well you know you need to see the monster it's not like I didn't want to see guys

it's not like I didn't want to be gone you know what wouldn't I want a shot yeah totally well wouldn't I but yeah I think those last two episodes were undoubtedly well the 10 one was pretty great but it's terms of the show that that i should sort of the show that i showed up for i would like this is uh i think the finale is my favorite one just on an emotional level and uh i even like stuff with eroshi and cantaro

and how complicated that is you know he i like that after the end of trying to find him just this i don't know what the culture is really like i can't speak to what society culture is like and it just feels like fractured family it's very relatable and in just that sense and the and the fractured part with the with the dad of him not being able to just let his son in and how how much of a struggle it is for him because they do pay attention I could still feel the writing and how they pay attention to the psychology of the characters like he has a lot of loss and abandonment issues at the end of the day he wasn't technically like they didn't like abandon him purposefully you know but that lead what he experienced leaves a child feeling abandoned and it would make sense to me why hiroshi is the way he is especially with his son of all people you know like seeing himself and his son his own way and how that also leads to like the divorce with the mom and how the mom creates a level of agency you know i love the the the attention to detail to on her

performance of like this level of politeness that is probably ingrained with her in her culture but also standing up for herself making the right choice for her own kid and this episode pointing out like hey you know the the legacy of everything there's a there's also generational trauma that occurs and it's about undoing that now moving forward more than anything else when kate said you know this curses broken and then everyone in the theater stood up and applauded and cried that that uh that's what this episode's about yeah really is is is watching the the shifts there even though the k being like i i i understand that was the part though like i really got it that's just a joke like what's wrong with his family it's like i get it you know like i would have liked a little bit of an acknowledgment of

yo you're like right here for your granddaughter you know like yeah around her a little bit beyond just asking about how's how's your dad well and yeah like if she's going back what's she just gonna say like oh we didn't find her yeah or is she gonna say she decided to stay to spare your feelings sorry she continued to abandon you yeah she chose it this time like yeah yeah she's not she's your granddaughter she's not some woman and if we had started the emotionality

it's like the last two episodes are the yin and gang of like the second or last episode has all the the cool all the action oriented stuff and the tone you want around that is there and then this episode has all the emotional stuff and the tone around that is there and if you just merge

the two because then you know if we had gotten to hear earlier we could have actually lived in that moment instead of having it be like a quick you know oh it kind of reminded me of like a dial of destiny. Because I think the writing is like in terms of like the actual sci-fi shit that goes on

in the plot of Monarch is more interesting in the last episode. Like here every scene with Tim is there's a signal. Yeah. We know what this is leading to. I'm going to go to Kitaro. There's a signal.

Gonna go to Yoroshi. There's a signal. That's how so much of the writing on the show has been. The signal worked. Hey, we got him. And they're chasing something that we've already really know the circumstances of yeah so i did get to a point of like just fucking just act on the signal just go do it just spend some time on something different yeah yeah i'll trade back

my precious tim time for some better drama that just watching him spin wheels but the thing is though is like this the scene work though be i i really feel like it's just because of the scene work with Kay and Shaw that alone I'm like I've never seen so much like I've never felt so much emotion generated from this show in terms of like I'm really getting in the fields here for what's happening and I am very much impressed and this neat in this scene only exists because of a sci-fi realm you know like it only works on the sci-fi realm of how like I think that makes it feel so much more lived in with the draw like they both seem so believable. in this and there's so much nuance happening here. Oh yeah. Just a wide pallet of emotions and and then even when you get to Hiroshi and her

at the end I'm like damn that is very emotional I don't even like this guy but I feel for both of them here now and I can see it's like closing the loop you know yeah it's like you can see all the things that led to all these you know all of his transgressions

laid bare in that moment and that you know is is yeah It bridges that gap, at least in the immediate moment of, you know, the stuff about Hiroshi's character that is frustrating. Yeah. Yeah. In that moment, it feels understandable. And you get, I feel like the show has done a relatively mid to poor-ish job of making you see from his perspective. Because, you know, just the way they handle the character for the sake of mystery, I don't know, it kind of bungles that.

but in that moment. And, like, I don't mind a character that we can get intimate with while watching them make, you know, difficult and or, you know, bad decisions. But, I don't know, yeah. It was nice to feel for that here and to have the emotionality to bolster the logic you know is true, but that isn't the drama of the show, you know. I surprisingly came around.

On a level of characters, I really disliked watching. Cantaro easily was number one. Undoubtedly, number one. And then I went, it was Cantaro. Behind Cantaro was Kate. Behind Kate was Kirstie Clements. It was May. So in 3-2-1 for me, like that.

That was like Kiercy Clemens was three. can'taro didn't just go from three to what cantaro like when like oh my god i really like cantaro yeah yeah and that and that through line stayed yeah in this episode i'm like i really i still really like it wasn't like a one-off episode yeah yeah scenes are good i love it like the dynamics are giving him are very interesting i really like him and and like that was probably the biggest shocker like one episode just slingshot it like oh my god i actually really i hate you were the of my least favorite people. And

Kate never really like she had better scenes here but Kate and May I'm like they can easily not return next season they didn't write for them yeah they didn't write

much of anything for those characters and I mean like in terms of like the female characters they did a great job with Kay like she's the probably one of easily the best she's probably the best

character yeah she might be the best in terms of both characters and performance and all of the stuff that goes into it Cantaro's mom is great who runs Monarch? She's enjoyable Verdugo. Yeah, she's enjoyable. I think she, for what that

role is, she does a quality job. I think she's enjoyable when you put her in a scene with Tim, which is all her scenes. Yes. Outside of a couple of scenes that are not with to. Yeah, and I like badass lady who hasn't been here for a minute. Yeah, yeah, she's fine. She's funny.

um but yeah the kate i did not really come around i i don't feel like they know how to i liked her scene when she when she said i'm your granddaughter or something like that like that was a good emotional moment yeah uh and like i said she had better scenes here overall but i never really came around her character and i kept trying in my in my mind and heart i kept trying and i just couldn't and May she had that one Apex Tim episode it was weird I thought the way how I was concerned about my association with Cantaro

that was like this is just one episode because that's how it was for May for me I was like Bay's great in this episode I was just the one well and that's that's so much of what has happened again it's a I think a flaw of the show where you will have these like moments of intense focus

that don't feel connect to everything else because I mean yeah we got a whole episode on Kate and I feel like the point of doing that was just to somehow justify this random romance that's now happening that also doesn't seem to be something

they really care that much about like I'll take details where you don't have to put them over no details where you don't have to put them but like this relationship that they have forming like one part of my brain is like in theory it's kind of cool that I guess this romance can just kind of happen and it's just like a little thing they keep peppering in with like body language or like little gestures but at the same time it also feels like it's just sort of like a happenstance that it made it in here like you're I don't know like life can feel like happenstance but when you're making art or cinema or show or whatever you got to put a lot of thought into that and I feel like there was little to no thought put into that so it's one of those it doesn't make me mad because again these are made

made up characters they can do whatever they want but at the same time it does feel like one of those things where it's like this is a cool choice to have made could you could you focus on or maybe pepper it with anything could you give me anything to care about with this because you know they've been brought together may was the character who was like I don't even want to be I don't want to be brought on this event she was kind of like just along for the ride at the beginning of the journey and like their experiences again I always just think back to that one moment where they're in the cave and Kate's having that PTSD moment in like episode three or whatever when they're exploring the radiation zone and like that is about the only moment I could think of

that like is intimate between them for any reason and now they have this whole like unspoken thing which again is like it's cool in isolation but it's not really it doesn't feel like it's been made part of those characters and it feels like the most significant thing that's happened to Kate recent aside from being a sidekick on the Lee Shaw adventure is this romance and it feels like this sort of weird just I don't know additional addendum they just like taped to the side yeah or something like that and her performances again it's like I don't even really feel I don't know what it is because I don't feel like it's the actor again but I can also feel like in those moments in this episode that we're more emotional and like even the way they're shooting her isn't that intimate though dialogue that

they give her the scenes that they give her aren't that prolonged or in depth or anything. So I just feel like the show treated her with such a pedestrian gaze and never really, except for that one episode again and except for the early moments of the PTSD

cutting in. Like even that trailed off and doesn't really feel like part of her she's just like peppy now. And that's fine but she doesn't really feel like an actual character. Nope. But overall I don't know what I'd give this show out of I'll give it a 70% for goodwill.

Give it like a 6.8. Sure, why not? I don't get a 6.3. I like the finale. It's great. Solid finale overall. What did you guys think of Monarch? Do you want a season two?

What would you want it to explore? I actually feel like there'd be more personality if Apex was here the whole time. Sure. Just because I love the silly-ass cheese it brings. Yes. Leave your thoughts down below. Subscribe, leave a like, and let's end this with a pecker.

Brian Perry, it's 2024. We've entered the dawn of shoutouts for Brian Perry. And now we've got to kick it off properly with figuring out what your New Year's resolution is going to be this year, my friend. And I feel like your New Year's resolution will be to make your bed every morning. Oh, it's a good one. It's a great one. I think making your bed every morning clears your mind. It helps you feel like you accomplish a task for the day.

And if I know you, Brian Perry, and I think I do, you probably sleep in the nude. Yes. And when you sleep in the nude, sometimes as a guy, I get it. You're probably really hairy. Might have a little bit of a mark. Uh-oh. A brown mark. A little hair.

Or that. Or a poop mark. Yeah, a poop mark. Yeah. I went first. You got a yes-and. So poop mark was there. Poop mark with hair on it.

A poop mark with hair on it. And when you make your bed, you can cover that shit up, literally. You can. And then no one will notice was there. I've been like, dude, maybe your resolution this. should be to buy some brown sheets, some black sheets. Maybe the crystalline white is not really cutting for you. And maybe not even a fabric, maybe some kind of vinyl.

Yeah. And then next year, 2025, you can buy some better toilet paper and a bidet. Three-ply. That might work as well. So you're the second patron. I have made a poop reference to, and I feel like it's going to be an ongoing theme now. It's the poop month for shout house. What creative way will you poop?

So, Brian, my friend, make your bed every morning. Seriously, it'll help free your mind of a lot of, of, you know, people say it does something for it. It's a placebo effect. It's a bunch of bullshit. It's like writing your name on the paper to get points. It's not really going to do anything. It's like when you add some bullshit on here to do,

it's to make you feel like, oh, wow, I'm ahead of the day. Some people say you shouldn't even make it. your bed because it's going to move all the particulates around and attract bedbugs and things like that. You should just leave it. That's why John has bedbugs.