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.

 

[Julie Newmar]

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Goddammit they had to ruin the comic and be all surprised pikachu when nobody wants it. Too many of those names are troon adjacent for it not to be a complete shitshow and I’m just disappointed that more good stories have been made untouchable.

 

[thx1138]

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.

Imagine a show where a virus nearly instantaneously propagates itself around the world killing every male in every species. Now imagine they have to add an element where when you see this death wave coming you can just yell I IDENTIFY AS A WOMAN! and it passes you by like the fucking plague and you've put lamb's blood on your door.

You might as well include time travel, elves, cryptids, alternate universes, and faster than light spaceships if you're going to do that.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

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

That's what happens when no-one instructs them to feel anything.
Refreshing isn't it?

Unsurprising this happened, the thing cratered so hard it didn't bounce and instead began to seek the Hollow Earth. Probably a costly lesson for all involved. As people have said the comic wasn't great but it could have been made as a decent bit of brainless watching maybe 10 years ago. Not so much at the moment.

 

[pwnest injun]

Even if they somehow made the show good, no one wants to watch a show about a post-apocalyptic viral outbreak thing right now. We have too much of that bullshit in real life.

 

[Atatata]

Honestly, a part of me was hoping to see this one and the Japanese trash anime equivalent, World's End Harem, duke it out but this one got canned immediately while the latter was delayed.

 

[OttoWest]

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.

What was the change?

 

[Wintersun]

What was the change?

The change is trans women not being included in the biological male killing virus.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Fucking seriously? Mtf survive in the show? Lol that's so fucking dumb on a already lame comic.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

Fucking seriously? Mtf survive in the show? Lol that's so fucking dumb on a already lame comic.

To be fair, it's only as retarded as the reason behind it all in the comic, which might as well have been "a wizard did it".

 

[Iron Hamster]

Didn't they already try this premise with that unfunny dude?

 

[Standardized Profile]

To be fair, it's only as retarded as the reason behind it all in the comic, which might as well have been "a wizard did it".

It was so nonsensical Dr. Mann said so, then they all kind of stopped worrying about it because OMG Beth.

It's not a bad series. It's all right. It's got adventure, drama, monkeys. If they had made the show ten years ago, before gender ideology took over entertainment, it might have been more successful.

 

[Getting tard comed]

Just curious.. but if trannys survive.. what's the problem for the show?

 

[Plumber's Kokoro Wish]

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.

The virus merely asked folks what they identified as before ravaging them.

 

[Der weiße Teufel]

The change is trans women not being included in the biological male killing virus.

Really? Didn't watch it but I thought they just made a huge deal about how the guy is in fact NOT the "last man" because there are still trans men, and how the virus did NOT kill just the men but also "women" (aka troons) and enbys. Basically just adding more convoluted woke speak that sound retarded to anyone who understands reality.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

Fucking seriously? Mtf survive in the show? Lol that's so fucking dumb on a already lame comic.

I haven't watched a second of this shit but the first article I saw about it (a @CatParty one posted here because where else) was a hilarious cope piece about how it wasn't just men that died, 'women' who just happened to have Y chromosomes died too so chromosomes are totally arbitrary and you can't say all the men died when there are plenty of FTM troons surviving as 'men'. From what I can tell the original premise is intact, it's just dressed up by a ton of troon copium.

 

[Midge Shelby1919]

For fans of Y: The Last Man, it’s truly the end of their world

I don’t think I’ve ever read a lie in the first sentence of an article. I do not believe for a moment this show has fans, let alone ones who would be so distraught at it ending.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

What was worse? This show or Cowboy Bebop?

 

[Ser Prize]

To be fair, it's only as retarded as the reason behind it all in the comic, which might as well have been "a wizard did it".

It was so nonsensical Dr. Mann said so, then they all kind of stopped worrying about it because OMG Beth.

It's not a bad series. It's all right. It's got adventure, drama, monkeys. If they had made the show ten years ago, before gender ideology took over entertainment, it might have been more successful.

Did they even say what the cause was in the comic?

 

[FarCentrist]

one cisgender male

cisgender

How to remove interest in a show in one word

It would be surprisingly based if the troons died along with the bio men but obviously we can't hurt their feelings so we end up with this retarded premise that MtF troons survive.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Did they even say what the cause was in the comic?

They identify several candidates but spend the most time on Dr. Mann's father, Dr. Matsumori. He invented human cloning, which set off a morphogenetic wave that killed all the males because they were unnecessary. Ampersand survived because he carried a serum that was supposed to kill Mann's unborn clone baby so her father could get credit for human cloning, and he passed that immunity on to Yorick.

Mann says that's all crazy bullshit. So it depends on whether you believe Matsumori or Mann.