Why Yorick (Ben Schnetzer), a slacker named after a court jester, was forsaken in the apocalypse is a mystery. It’s about her son Yorick, who, by the looks of it, is the world’s last surviving man. For instance, the presidential line of succession in the United States is decimated, leaving the inexperienced senator Jennifer Brown as the de facto commander-in-chief.īut the show isn’t about her, even though actor Diane Lane, who plays President Brown, is top-billed. The trouble is that women occupy such a small fraction of powerful positions that it sends planet Earth spiralling out of order.
Y: The Last Man is a show set in a post-apocalyptic world, but you’d be hard-pressed to pin-point exactly what sets it apart from the scores of other series of its kind.Īnd that shouldn’t have happened, because the premise is genuinely intriguing: Without any warning, every human being and most mammals with the Y chromosome drop dead after a mysterious cataclysmic event, essentially leaving women in charge of the world.
Even within certain genres, there is a division among audiences. Plagued by production difficulties - both the original creators and the original star were replaced - Y: The Last Man appears to have been so drastically watered down over the years that the final product lacks everything that made the comic book such a classic.
