Culture ‘Y: The Last Man’ Showrunner Admits Defeat In Getting New Platform For Canceled TV Show

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For fans of Y: The Last Man, it’s truly the end of their world. Showrunner/EP Eliza Clark has posted that the dystopian drama hasn’t been able to find new distribution.

“For those of you who have been asking me: we tried really hard to get another platform to pick up season 2 of Y,” Clark wrote on Twitter. “But sadly, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. It is always incredibly difficult to move a show, and in recent years, it has only gotten harder.”

Y: The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic drama developed by Clark based on the comic book series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. In the series, a cataclysmic event decimates everyone but one cisgender male, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer), and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better.

The show was canceled in October by FX on Hulu a few weeks before its Season 1 finale. At that time, Clark wrote, “I have never in my life been more committed to a story, and there is so much left to tell… We don’t want it to end.”

Amber Tamblyn, Diane Lane (House of Cards), Juliana Canfield (Succession), Elliot Fletcher (The Fosters), Olivia Thirlby (Juno), Ashley Romans (NOS4A2) and Marin Ireland (The Umbrella Academy) round out the cast.

The series was produced by Clark, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force, along with Nellie Reed. Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, Vaughan and Melina Matsoukas were executive producers.

 

[The Valeyard]

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[Josterman]

 

[Chilson]

Shocked, truly shocked. Next you will tell me the sky is blue and the ocean is wet.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

 

[Ruin]

Imagine fucking up so much Netflix doesn't want you. Netflix will give virtually anything at least two seasons. 75% of Netflix is literal garbage no other network would green light.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Dude (or whatever) you got cancelled mid-season on a streaming service. That's Showgirls levels of failure right there, just cut bait and stop humiliating everyone involved.

 

[Red Hood]

 

[Ruin]

In the series, a cataclysmic event decimates everyone but one cisgender male, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer), and his pet monkey.

Wow what a winner of a plot. Yep can't imagine why it failed to find an audience.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Wow what a winner of a plot. Yep can't imagine why it failed to find an audience.

The original comic book it was based on at least made some kind of logical sense, in that it was all biological males except one who were wiped out. Of course, insinuating that trans women aren't women is unacceptable in the current year. So they had to make a change to the plot that, although minor at first glance, actually fundamentally changed the dynamics of how the world and scenario worked, rendering it pointless.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Imagine fucking up so much Netflix doesn't want you. Netflix will give virtually anything at least two seasons. 75% of Netflix is literal garbage no other network would green light.

They famously didn't want Sherlock and Holmes.

 

[Ruin]

They famously didn't want Sherlock and Holmes.

One of my friends was actually stupid enough to see that in theatres.

He was subsequently mocked by me.

 

[Dysnomia]

The original comic book it was based on at least made some kind of logical sense, in that it was all biological males except one who were wiped out. Of course, insinuating that trans women aren't women is unacceptable in the current year. So they had to make a change to the plot that, although minor at first glance, actually fundamentally changed the dynamics of how the world and scenario worked, rendering it pointless.

It's so retarded. But tranny feels matter so there you go.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

They famously didn't want Sherlock and Holmes.

I mean, you gotta have some standards. Not particularly high standards. Just... some.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

They famously didn't want Sherlock and Holmes.

Didn't they also turn down No Time to Die (at least at MGM's asking price?)

Wow what a winner of a plot. Yep can't imagine why it failed to find an audience.

The comic at least completed it's run. I remember reading it when it first came out, then dropping it because the place was slow and the overarching story had 0 momentum.

 

[Ser Prize]

The comic ended up being retarded. That said at least it was consistent that all biologically male mammals died save two, which royally fucked the world. Adding the weird tranny exception makes shit even dumber.

 

[Ecto-1A]

Barely anyone has even heard or read the comic. It would been a dream for man haters to enjoy. Alas, even the radical feminists were turned away.

 

[Stoneheart]

Hey Journo scum. you forgot to tell me if i should feel sad or not over this news.
Im very confused----

 

[Foxxo]

The comic ended up being retarded. That said at least it was consistent that all biologically male mammals died save two, which royally fucked the world. Adding the weird tranny exception makes shit even dumber.

The transgender surviving just confirms that they're not men in the universe, which is... well... something.

 

[Haramburger]

It's so retarded. But tranny feels matter so there you go.

It's not an uncommon sci-fi starting point. Night of the Comet (1984) is something similar, a comet not unlike Haley's Comet is expected to come close to Earth and lots of people party for it. It has some sort of radiation that melts everybody not in a lead or iron structure into dust, and the protag(a girl who works in a movie theater and spends the night in the back room, a refurbished nuke bunker) explored a deserted urban landscape and finds her sister who spent the night in a pickup truck fucking. They find a few survivors, fight zombies who were partially irradiated, etc.