Y: The Last Man

We the people are sick and tired of series first episodes that try to introduce every continuing character rather than deal with the plot and relevant protagonists. We do not care or want to know or care for the other characters yet. We want a sense of the challenges ahead. Will the story be action oriented or cerebral or emotional or a combination? If all that happens is that we meet a bunch of people, what is going to bring us back?

We the people are also sick and tired of episodes where the story is frozen, nothing plot wise happens.

We the people are also sick and tired of this show.

Who ever wrote the screen play should never be allowed to work in entertainment again. This book was phenomenal. This show was garbage. Stick to the book!!

I'm going to assume that nobody is going to swoop in and save "Y - The Last Man" from its cancellation and put my review here, rather than against the last episode of the season. Apologies to any future readers if I'm left looking foolish. Truth be told, it's covid and the expense as well as the lukewarm response that has done for the series, but I can't help but feel that it's refusal to stick with the one aspect of it's three pronged story I was most interested in, means I'm not too sad to not have to watch any more.

At one moment, every creature on earth with a Y chromosome dies, save for Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer) and his pet capuchin monkey. His mother, Jennifer (Diane Lane) was the highest-ranking Government official in the country so is elevated to President. On discovering her son is alive, and acknowledging the danger he's in, she assigns Agent 355 (Ashley Romans) to get Yorick to a geneticist and to begin working out how he's survived.

There ends up being three plot strands to the series, Yorick and Agent 355 try to get across the country as undetected as possible. The President tries to maintain some level of organisation with a distrustful and angry population and political enemies forming against her. Meanwhile her daughter and a former government employee, played by Olivia Thirlby and Marin Ireland respectively, fall in with militant group led by Roxanne, played by Missi Pyle. My problem was, all three of these plot strands play equally in terms of time, but I was only really interested in one of them - that being the Yorick one. I'm aware that is essentially me (a man) saying that in a show that is literally 95% actresses I only care about the one other male in it, but I don't think it's that I can't relate to the other two aspects, it's more than the intrigue of the show, why has everyone with a Y chromosome died, is most likely to be resolved in that one.

I also struggled to accept the level of devastation caused by around 50% of the population disappearing. I accept that there's big issues to deal with, such as the grief of the loss of loved ones and the engulfing realisation that life is essentially going to come to an end within the next generation but I don't understand why cars are just abandoned in the streets, why houses are left empty - why, essentially, it's a post-apocalyptic world just weeks after the event. I get that there would be supply struggles, but demand has just halved too... still.

I can't help but think that the decision to replace the original showrunners, led to a different and less interesting show, and if this is the only adaptation of "Y - The Last Man" we get, that is very disappointing.

I, like many of the viewers, am a huge fan of the graphic novel and have wanted a live-action series for years. And I have always thought that a TV series is a better format for this IP than a movie because the original series is a long and winding adventure that does not truly get going until roughly a quarter of the way through. What we've seen so far is good albeit a little slow, but I am going to be patient because this series really pays off the further you get.

It's starting off great, really amazing concept that's showing so much potential but some of the decision making done by the characters is so illogical. I get that some people can be selfish and childish but after an apocalyptic level event you should change right, a bit? Just a little? The show's doing everything right-ish by me so far, four episodes in, but yorick's character is doing enough to put you off of it. They just need to show us, just once at the least, that he's capable of comprehending the gravity of the situation he's in, sure they can keep his personality traits, being selfish, childish and all they just need to dial it down a bit.

I think it's okay for a show to have a character that'll make you wanna shout at or break the screen but don't center the entire thing around him if that's the case. The show reveals how much the world's dependent on one gender, that's a debate we can have elsewhere, but the problem is the one man left surviving is a blithering idiot with no useful skills whatsoever.

This could be great but it isn't so far, they need to fix a few minor flaws to make everything a little more believable for viewers. It has a good start and I hope they don't ruin such a great concept 'cause I'm such a big fan of dystopian future tv series/movies and they have a potential gem in their hands.

At episode 7 now: In the past two episodes, I see improvements from the previous couple which were aching to watch, however the show's still pretty far off the potential it had in the first episode. The characters still lack depth and the story is still clear as mud so it's hard to tell where they're taking the series or what exactly is going on. It just feels all over the place especially considering how few episodes there is left to change that. Unfortunately this is the last episode I watched but it really was getting better.