Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 – Review | Apple TV

MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season 2 is starting on Apple TV, and the series picks up where it left off. With the ten new episodes, we continue to find out if the world can be safe with Kaiju creatures always lurking. I enjoy this character-driven plot so much, and continue to be a fan of this series. Read our full Monarch Season 2 review here!

MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS Season 2 begins on Apple TV, and you have plenty to look forward to. It’s still a struggle to figure out exactly who to trust – and for what, as that also seems to change. Season 2 picks up where the first season left off, so we continue with all the same characters. Fortunately, because I really wouldn’t want to be without any of them.

Also, the story continues to unfold in both the present and via flashbacks in the past. We will get to know much more about the connection between Keiko and Lee, as well as the friendship between Keiko, Lee, and Bill in the past. In the present, we have Cate, Kentaro, and May to keep up with.

Continue reading our Monarch Season 2 review below. Start watching on Apple TV on February 27, 2026.

Season 2 of Monarch introduces a new Kaiju

With Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2, we pick up with everything still being very much on the line. Everyone lives in fear of when the next G-Day (when Godzilla “happened” upon San Francisco) will come. Also, to better understand the events of the present, we continue to have flashbacks of what happened in the 1950s when Keiko, Bill, and Lee (in the form of Wyatt Russell) traveled the world.

As already stated, Season 2 picks up where the first season ended. This means we have many people back from a world where time acts very differently. Two years have passed in our world, though they were only gone for days in their minds. In an effort to also get Lee (played in the older version by Kurt Russell) back, a new Kaiju will be introduced.

Well, actually, Keiko and Lee will already be familiar with it from their earlier adventures, but now the rest of the world is about to see it as well. And this Kaiju is on a whole new level. Of course, the Kaijus are called Titans more than Kaijus, so this new Titan is called Titan X. An enigmatic creature, to say the least.

Titan X is aptly described as “a living cataclysm”, and while this can be said for most Kaijus, Titan X is still a whole new deal. It has a massive bioluminescent form, not unlike a squid, but with shark-like teeth on its arms, and smaller creatures seemingly working separately, yet as a part of it.

New characters joining in the second season

Not only will Titan X be joining the “fun” in Monarch Season 2, but we will also be getting a few new characters. The second season of this breathtakingly gorgeous Apple TV genre production has amazing guest stars in store for you. They include Amber Midthunder (Prey), Curtiss Cook, Cliff Curtis, Dominique Tipper, and Camilo Jiménez Varón.

Of course, at the heart of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, we still have Cate Randa (Anna Sawai), May Olowe-Hewitt (Kiersey Clemons), Kentaro Randa (Ren Watabe), Dr. Keiko Randa (played by Mari Yamamoto across all time periods), and Bill Randa (Anders Holm). To name just a few of the characters, we came to know in season 1.

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Of course, as already mentioned, we also still have Lee Shaw (portrayed by Wyatt Russell as young and Kurt Russell in the senior version). I love to see how all these characters continue to interact. Not always in the healthiest ways, but they continue to try to do better.

Not least the Randa family, who are all struggling with various mommy and daddy issues. To put it mildly, and for very good reasons.

Admittedly, things are a little tense after Kentaro got closer with dad, Hiroshi (Takehiro Hira), in the two years Cate was gone. For her, it was a few days; for them, it was two years of fighting to get her back, but now she feels like she’s on the outside. For Cate, this means a reaction that is built in for her: She runs away.

Also, Hiroshi is still getting used to having his mom, Keiko, around… younger than himself. Yeah, it’s all pretty wild and feels like something out of Back to the Future, but it’s just the craziness of having been in the world of Titans and returning to our world again.

Start watching Season 2 of Monarch on Apple TV

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters comes from Legendary Television and is executive produced by Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell from Safehouse Pictures, alongside Chris Black (showrunner on season 2), Jen Roskind, Matt Shakman, and Lawrence Trilling. The latter also directs four episodes. Also, we have Andrew Colville, who writes two episodes and serves as executive producer.

It’s going to be very interesting to see what Apple TV does next with its multiseries deal with Legendary Entertainment. Not only does it include this second season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, it also teases multiple spinoff series based on the franchise.

Personally, I like that Monarch: Legacy of Monsters continues to be released with just one weekly episode. As much as I enjoy binge-watching something, I also really like having something to unfold slowly. Of course, that’s easy to say when I got to watch this much faster via screeners for this review, but I almost wish I could have made it last longer. So, please, enjoy it as it comes… for me, as well.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2 premieres on Apple TV on February 27, 2026. The final episode of the season will be out on May 1, 2026.