Apple’s new Godzilla series crushes its biggest challenge

TV Show ReviewsApple TV Plus’ Monarch: Legacy of Monsters series kicks off with a surprisingly compelling set of new perspectives that make a familiar story feel fresh.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Anna Sawai as Cate in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Image: Apple TV Plus

Though some of Legendary Pictures’ recent Godzilla-focused projects have been gorgeous sights, they’ve also been so narratively wobbly that it was hard to imagine Apple getting in on the MonsterVerse action with a new live-action series, Monarch: Legacy of

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