I had such high hopes because I love Susan Sarandon's work. But they decided to kill her character off immediately and then have her be in flashback scenes as a guest star. Gigi walks in and immediately knows Nicky "killed" their mom and storms out of the house instead of finding their dad, with no emotion other than annoyance. I think they auditioned people who could sing country and then picked the ones who had the look that they were going for that could half way deliver a line. This massively famous family just goes to bars and they break out into song like nothing. LOL ok. I did love the scene between Trace Adkins and the actor who plays Ace, when neither wanted to go on stage to sing. That was sweet. But I have to admit I am intrigued to find out who was murdered. My husband makes fun of me for watching the show but at this point, it is entertaining when you accept that it is going to be bad, like a campy film. I do like Gigi's rendition of Born this Way and one of Lizzo's songs. One thing I cannot understand (and maybe this will be explained in later episodes) is Catt being Albie's daughter. Albie was having an affair 40 something years ago, Dotti burns the barn with Catt's mother in it. What I don't get is that if Catt was born before the fire, why does she have burn scars on her back? And if she was born after the fire, meaning she sustained burn injuries in the womb as her mother burned to death, how was there a birth certificate with Rosa and Albie's name on it, especially if the whole point was that no one was supposed to know about the affair or pregnancy (Albie didn't know Rosa was pregnant and didn't know Rosa died) I need to know, I am in too deep LOL.
Review of Monarch
