Wondering Why We Haven’t Seen That ‘Y: The Last Man’ TV Show Yet? Blame The Election
By Ben Pearson/July 21, 2017 4:30 pm EST
But the show has been in the works at FX for a long time now, so what’s up with the delay? According to writer/showrunner Michael Green, you can blame the 2016 presidential election for the long wait.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Green explained how the election of America’s current president made the writing process far more difficult and nearly made him walk away from the project altogether:
Green also offered an update about his approach to the show, and how they’re looking to avoid a Lost-esque situation in which the showrunners are scrambling through the middle of a story without an end date in mind. Y: The Last Man will have an established length before it begins, “whether it’s 60, 70, or 80 episodes”:
“It would have been a very different show, and very different development process, had the election not been as horrifying as it was. I had to put the script down for a couple months and really reassess it tonally, because it became a different creature, it became violent protest. It couldn’t not be political, and I had to embrace it, and I had to find my way in, and I had to find a way to channel my own dismay, disappointment and rage into it, while still keeping it what it is. For a minute there I almost walked away.”
If you still haven’t read the comics, I can’t recommend them highly enough. I fell away from reading comics altogether a few years ago, but Y: The Last Man was the first comic series I read since I was a kid, and it was the perfect re-entry point that allowed me to see the possibilities of storytelling in this medium (I soon followed it up with Preacher, Fables, and a handful of others, but Y will always have a special place in my heart).
“I’m gonna pick a number, and I’m gonna stick to it. And I’m gonna write to it. There’s so many brilliant things in that comic, the two biggest are the premise, and the ending.”
If you’ve been coming to sites like this for years and still don’t know what this comic is about, A) I’d once again recommend that you check it out yourselves, because maybe reading it completely fresh would be the best way to go about it, but B) I’ll drop the synopsis below in case you’re interested:
