Y: The Last Man? Just because! It’s a hugely popular post-apocalyptic graphic novel, from creators Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, with the kind of zingy high-concept story that’s had us waiting around for an inevitable screen adaptation for ages.
With the trailer below, it looks like that wait is over. Y: The Last Man is now streaming on BINGE as of September 14, depicting a world where everyone with a Y chromosome simultaneously carks it, leaving our world to its women. Save for one lucky/unlucky guy.
The weirdly-named Yorick (Ben Schnetzer) and his male pet monkey Ampersand are mysteriously spared from the global androcide. Y: The Last Man follows their search across the broken US landscape to get back in touch with Yorick’s girlfriend (Beth Deville), his radicalised sister (Olivia Thirlby) and his mum-turned-new-US-President (Diane Lane).
Of course the trailer is morally obligated to use an echoey cover version of It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World, as highways rot and all men except Yorick dissolve into blood. One of the comic’s best (and most disrespected!) characters is the badarse Agent 355 (Ashley Romans), who closes out the trailer by knocking down some of Yorick’s many pursuers and yelling at him to run.
One interesting focus of the TV adaptation is in its depiction of trans men, an apocalyptic loophole that was only briefly mentioned in the graphic novel series. Trans actor Elliot Fletcher appears as Sam, a male spared from the global devastation due to being assigned female at birth.
If you can’t wait to meet all the survivors of Y: The Last Man, or if you’ve never heard of the comic books and the trailer above just appealed to you, BINGE is the place to be, with the first three episodes arriving on September 14 and new episodes being released weekly after that until November 2.
