My son is very into the Monsterverse that Legendary has put together these last few years, so we are happy to have the chance to sit down together, once a week, and watch this companion series - widening the mythology of this world.
Having survived Godzilla's San Francisco incident, traumatised Cate Randa (Anna Sawai) investigates her father's whereabouts, which leads her to discover he had an alternate family in Japan. She continues the investigation with her new half-brother Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and his friend May (Kiersey Clemons) and the uncover her fathers links to Monarch, a covert force investigating the Titans. They connect with Lee Shaw (Wyatt and Kurt Russell) a retired Monarch operative who was friends with both their father and grandparents, who were key figures in Monarch's establishment.
Each episode mixes a modern day (well... 2015) storyline alongside scenes from various years following the second World War explaining the origins of the Monarch organisation, it's establishment of the existence of Moto's and the loss of founder Keiko Miura. Both storylines are complementary to each other, though perhaps both underplay the role of Hiroshi Randa - who is the very physical link between both halves of the plot. I think the show gets the balance right between the human storyline and monstrous interference and the man himself, Godzilla regularly appears in the series.
Everything technically was really good with the series, performances were decent as were the expensive looking visual effects that the show needed. I have heard that aspects of the story were a bit complicated for people who weren't already on board with the wider storyline, the significance of Apex cybernetics for example, but that wasn't us, so I can't say we bounced off it. The storyline does perhaps hit the same beats a bit to often, with Tim having to prove his worth a few too many times. The score is really good, particularly the theme music, which we were humming all the time.
The only concern is whether enough people will have watched the show, on what is still quite a small potential audience on Apple TV, to justify what must be an expensive series. Nothing confirmed at the time of writing.