![]() “Wow, that was a great cover,” I thought to myself. In Monarch’s second episode, Dottie and Nicky cover Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” together onstage. The century started strong with major hits like The O.C., Veronica Mars, Ugly Betty, and Desperate Housewives, but the rise of streaming shifted the entire paradigm. ![]() Since the turn of the millennium, network dramas have been on a slow, steady decline. Let me explain that statement, because I know it’s a dramatic one. After the six episodes provided for press, I was left with a pit in my stomach, a lump in my throat, and one resounding thought: Monarch is proof that the network drama is dead. That’s how bad the show’s thinly written plot structures and rote, soapy twists are. The problem is that when Sarandon isn’t on screen, the other characters do little more than wander around with their hands in their pockets waiting for Mama to return. It’s a confounding choice for a series that’s banking on reeling in viewers by hitching itself to her fame, but one that will ultimately make more sense for viewers once they tune in. Well, except for one glaring deceit: Susan Sarandon is largely and vexingly absent from the show she’s being billed as the runaway star of. Turns out, the series is exactly what I just described. Or so I thought when I first heard about Monarch, the network’s new drama series premiering Sunday. Whoever cast Susan Sarandon-the politically-outspoken, Bernie-supporting progressive Hollywood icon (or Hollywood elite, depending on which side of the political divide you ask)-as the matriarch of a family of country music artists in a show that would air on Fox of all places is a mad genius. ![]()
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