After countless starts, stops, delays, and reimaginings over the years, the TV adaptation of Vertigo s Y: The Last Man has finally been given a series premiere date, with the show set to debut on Monday, September 10th exclusively on FX on Hulu. One of the more popular comic series of the 00s [.]
The characters in
Chaos Walking live in a world without women, all of whom were supposedly killed by a disease that targeted them specifically. The truth is a little different.
The men of this world are impacted by “the Noise,” a disease that reveals their thoughts as perceivable sights and sounds. Women, for some reason, aren’t affected. Over time, the Noise drove the men of one town to madness, resulting in the mass murder of all the women who lived there.
Chaos Walking s disease might not have killed one sex, but it still only affected men. Is there any truth to this idea that a disease could only affect men while women are immune, or vice versa?
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It’s really happening. After years and years of false starts, the long-awaited TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s comic series is finally, truly getting made and we have proof a very,
very small amount of proof.
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At 24 seconds into this “FX on Hulu” promotional compilation ad, there is honest-to-God footage of the
Y: The Last Man TV series, about Yorick and his monkey trying to navigate a post-apocalyptic world filled entirely by women.
As you can see, it’s not much at all only a few seconds, where we can see the male doomsday: bombs dropping, a plane crash, people collapsing, Yorick’s mother and congresswoman Jennifer Brown (Diane Lane) running, and Yorick’s sister Hero Brown (Olivia Thirlby) looking concerned in an “oh no a plague is wiping out all the men” kind of way. If you spot more, please let us know in the comments.
Reservation Dogs. And of course,
Y: The Last Man, which we see a glimpse of around the 26-second mark. And it looks appropriately apocalyptic.
In
Y: The Last Man, a cataclysmic event wipes out all living mammals with a Y chromosome, save one – the only surviving man of the human race is Yorick Brown, the protagonist of the series. The new footage teased in the Hulu sizzle reel appears to be the incident, in which men around the world suddenly drop dead, with close-ups of a very troubled
Diane Lane and
Olivia Thirlby. It’s a
very, very short glimpse of new footage, which is kind of a bummer since the series has been shooting since October, and you would think FX would have more to show us. But it gives a good sense of the stakes and dark tone of the series.
Succession? We do, too.
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Has it been feeling like you just can’t find anything new to watch lately? Or, to put it more accurately: Do you find yourself not seeing as many new things that you want to check out? You’re not alone: It took awhile, but last year’s pandemic-based shutdown of much of the entertainment industry has started making its presence felt, mostly through the absence of new and returning television shows. TV became the de facto source of entertainment for everyone when we were forced indoors last March, and after bingeing our way through the COVID-19 lockdown, the era of Peak TV at long last took a hit.