Why is Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the King Kong vs. Godzilla TV show, a thoughtful and at times painful meditation on how it feels to love two people at once? Beats me, man, I only work here. You’d need the combined resources of Monarch and its corporate frenemy Apex to figure out the exact brainwaves among co-creators Chris Black and Matt Fraction that caused them to smush Jules et Jim in the middle of Destroy All Monsters.
But I’ll tell you what: I’m sure glad they did! Written by Kari Drake and directed with bold colors and soft nighttime light by Hiromi Kamata, this episode makes explicit a connection I’d somehow missed until now: Both Dr. Keiko Randa, the long-lost co-founder of Monarch, and her son Dr. Hiroshi Randa, her maverick successor at the organization, have lived divided lives.
Kei loved both Bill Randa, her late husband and
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