![]() Given how cultural understandings of gender have changed over the past two decades, and the greater visibility of transgender and nonbinary people in the media, "Y" had no choice but to address what happens to this part of the population (transgender people are rarely mentioned in the comics, and even then, often with offensive terms). "Y" is a deeply ambitious, engrossing epic that doesn't quite achieve the mastery and impact of its source material but is certainly a worthy adaptation. The series, created by Eliza Clark ("Animal Kingdom"), captures the tone and imagery of the comic books, but wisely is updated for the changed culture of 2021. The FX on Hulu "Y: The Last Man" series (streaming Mondays, ★★★ out of four) arrives on TV nearly 20 years after the comics' debut, and after a fraught production process, but manages to avoid collapsing under the weight of expectations. ![]() The violent, searing, philosophical books are beloved and cherished by comic book fans, and thus a Hollywood adaptation was both inevitable and difficult to pull off. ![]() Vaughan and Pia Guerra's seminal 2002 comic book series "Y: The Last Man" imagines that reality in a post-apocalyptic tale about what happens when every mammal with a Y chromosome dies at once, except for one man and his pet monkey. ![]() ![]() What would a world without men look like?īrian K. ![]()
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