Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is an Apple TV+ series set in the Monsterverse universe (i.e. Godzilla and King Kong).

After their father disappears Cate Randa (Anna Sawai) finds her half-brother Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and together with Kentaro's ex-gf May (Kiersey Clemons) they go in search of him and run into an elder Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) who is willing to help them but has plans of his own.

Meanwhile a secondary storyline set in the 1950's involves Keiko (Mari Yamamoto), a younger Lee Shaw (Wyatt) — who was a major character in Kong: Skull Island — and a younger Lee Shaw (Wyatt) as they form the nucleus of Monarch, which is the government entity tasked with researching and battling giant monsters — called Titans or MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms).

I've watched Skull Island and maybe Godzilla (2014) so not that familiar with the universe. The series is still fairly interesting with a globe-trotting find the McGuffin story and the occasional monster is pretty cool. The characters are interesting and they have their secrets. There are also a couple of plot twists I didn't see so that was nice.

There will be a second season which is good since the first ends in a bit of a cliffhanger.