![]() ![]() Big-budget sci-fi series tend to go one of two ways, I find, and please don’t email in to correct me – the first episode is a load of coded MacGuffintalk (“Madame President, we have to get the Theigned One to the Obelisk.” “No!” “It’s the only way”) or becomes one of those strange abruptly-cancelled-after-two-series things that the few thousand people who watched it petition about every single day until they die. Y: The Last Man reminds me of those few good episodes of Heroes they did in 2006 before they started doing Irish accents, in that, yes, the central conceit is very much “comic-book fancy”, but telling good, human stories against a backdrop of unbelievable sci-fi architecture makes for something utterly gripping. This should be an absurd bolt of cartoonishness that derails the entire thing instead, it pulls it all together. In Ben Schnetzer’s Yorick, Y: The Last Man has an intriguing final cis male character – he’s goofy and earnest, without having had any single element of his life together when society was normal, but is suddenly thrown into a disaster scenario with only his years as an amateur escapologist and a cheeky monkey sidekick to save him. Diane Lane is in excellent regal-but-with-human-concerns form as the unexpected new crisis president Ashley Romans, as Agent 355, is delightfully impossible to suss out Olivia Thirlby’s Hero is really having a day. ![]() And it is shot and soundtracked beautifully. ![]()
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