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The series is about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal (barring the same man's pet monkey) on Earth. Created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra published by Vertigo comics.
New York is where Jennifer sends Sarah to look for her daughter, hoping to find her alive, while at the White House, Kim, the dead President's daughter, is still struggling with the loss of her husband and sons but has to take care of her mother, who doesn't seem to be dealing with the situation well.
- Giulia Del Buono
Y: The Last Man takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious cataclysmic event simultaneously killed every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one man – Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer) – and his male pet monkey Ampersand.
- Y One of the Few Remaining Men. Y The Last Man has been glibly described to me as a show about what happens when all the men in the world mysteriously die, but “Would the World Be Kind” corrects this misinterpretation.
- Jumping Through Time. While episode one focused entirely on one day, episode two jumps ahead a couple of times. First to day eight, when there is a riot at the White House (more on that later), and then very quickly to day sixty-three, before we can see how the riot is resolved.
- The Apocalypse Bears an Unnerving Resemblance to the Present. According to Y The Last Man, signs of the apocalypse include floods in the New York City subway, and riots on government buildings in Washington DC.
- Images of Isolation. Another way in which the show’s world closely mirrors our own is in the profound sense of isolation many of the characters feel.
Y: The Last Man shows us a form of pioneering pandemonium. The other grand ingredient here is that the "last man on Earth" is kind if a loser, not just in cliched career ways, but...
Based on DC Comics' acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, the drama "Y: The Last Man" traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y...
After a mass casualty event wipes out every creature with a Y chromosome, President Jennifer Brown responds to the crisis; Yorick fears he may be the only survivor; Hero attempts to right a wrong.
