Netflix’s Skull Island buries its giant monsters under too many quips
by Andrew Webster from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CCFN)
Image: Netflix It goes without saying that when people show up to watch King Kong, or Godzilla, or King Kong vs. Godzilla, they're there to see big monsters wreak havoc. Sometimes there are interesting human stories, but they mostly serve to frame those giant monsters we love so much. And that's the first mistake that Skull Island, an animated spinoff on Netflix, makes: for most of the first season, the story is focused almost entirely on people. The second? Those people are almost uniformly annoying and chatty. The show turns things around by the end, but to get there, you'll have to withstand a nonstop barrage of quips and one-liners.
As the name implies, Skull Island takes place on... Skull Island, home of King Kong. There are a few different groups...