Review of Monster

• 5 TOTAL HOURS OF FLASHBACKS • meandering episodic side-quests that add nothing to the story • characters who do nothing but have panic attacks right before an important piece of information is about to be revealed • a villain who's adept at mind-control and getting people to kill themselves...because he has a way with words? • all attempts to kill villain thwarted by characters that possess an inability to make actual plans and/or a (infuriatingly cliche) psychological or physical inability to kill someone • sulking protagonist whose ultimate fate remains a point of indifference due to a lack of emotional investment...after a painstaking 74 episodes • ladyboy anna leibert • "let'spostpone this highly anticipated character arc...forever."
• plot armor galore
• "They were listening to our conversation..."
"Who was?"
"They just kept listening to it..."
"Who was listening?"
"They...they wouldn't stop listening..."
"Tell me who!"
"The—the—the..."
• everyone conveniently gathering in the same place, at the same time, all the time, so if you should ever think, "this might end badly", fret not, x and y are on the way, to save the day
• didja know...there's a monster in all of us?
• could've been packed into 40 less episodes

all this to say: when it was good, it was great.