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    How 'Monarch: Legacy of Monsters' honored Godzilla's Japanese roots

    "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" is a family affair. In the show's present day, Cate Randa, portrayed by Anna Sawai, is trying to learn the truth about her father's disappearance along with her newly discovered half-brother Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and May (Kiersey Clemons), an expat hacker running from her past. Over the course of the series, they've learned that the Randa family has long been in ...
    by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times Jan 08, 2024 6 minutes
    Anna Sawai, left, Ren Watabe and Kiersey Clemons attend the photo call for the Apple TV+ series "Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters" at the London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on Dec. 8, 2023, in West Hollywood, California.

    "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" is a family affair.

    In the show's present day, Cate Randa, portrayed by Anna Sawai, is trying to learn the truth about her father's disappearance along with her newly discovered half-brother Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and May (Kiersey Clemons), an expat hacker running from her past.

    Over the course of the series, they've learned that the Randa family has long been in the business of studying Godzilla.

    Episode 9 of "Monarch," which hit Apple TV+ last week, picks up after a cliffhanger that saw Cate, May and Lee Shaw (Kurt Russell) fall into a giant hole in the ground and, presumably, a deep underground portal to another world.

    A part of Legendary's interconnected Monsterverse, the 10-episode Apple TV+ series follows two different trios of characters more than 50 years apart: Cate, Kentaro and May in 2015 and Keiko Miura (Mari Yamamoto), Bill Randa (Anders Holm) and Lee Shaw (Wyatt Russell) in the 1950s. For one trio, Godzilla is the enigmatic and parlance — is more of a dangerous obstacle.

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