WOMAN: There's been an event.
Everywhere, they're gone.
[PEOPLE EXCLAIMING]
WOMAN 2: How did he survive?
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Why him?
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
ELIZA CLARK: Y the Last Man is a world that looks like ours
and feels like ours until an event kills every living being
with a Y chromosome.
A plague of some sort of biblical proportions
basically decimates half the world's population.
So biodiversity, gone.
Half the human beings in the world, gone.
Except for one cisgender man and his pet capuchin monkey.
And the show follows the survivors
of this catastrophic event and their attempts
to salvage what was lost and rebuild.
Power plants will start to shut down.
We'll be in the dark ages.
No food.
No power.
Sorry, which cities are we talking about?
All of them.
The world of Y is darkly comedic
with themes of tragedy and grief and power dynamics
between its survivors.
It's also very irreverent and subversive
and can be absurd at times.
LOUISE FRIEDBERG: This show is everything that means to be
human, which is sometimes funny, sometimes horrible,
and a lot of times within the same scene.
Are there other survivors?
God, I hope so.
I think that the humor in the show is the lifeblood of it.
You are just a delightfully open book, Agent Bergen.
That's not my name.
Oh, [BLEEP] lady, are you serious?
Definitely don't call me lady.
Call me 355.
OK, cool.
Call me trapezoid.
ELIZA CLARK: It's part of what makes the book so exciting.
I think we've all seen post-apocalyptic stories that
are grim and are about the idea that people
are the real monsters.
But the show has, I think, an optimistic view
of what is possible when people pull together.
I know you miss them.
I miss my kids every single day.
But there are still a lot of people who
need what only you can give.
VOICE ON RADIO: OK, I'll do it.
BEN SCHNETZER: It's this emotionally grounded,
narratively grounded, character driven piece that
is set against the backdrop of a really
technically ambitious world.
So you have a hell of a lot of action, a lot of suspense,
but you're also totally on board with these characters.
They're really at the heart of it.
What I found exciting about the show is what I think
everybody is going to find exciting,
is wondering how in the world we can
go forward with so much loss.
But also, the fact that our story
is both inevitably made by and dealing with the subject
of women, and who are women when the majority of the world
is women.
You're doing everything you can for everyone you can.
But ma'am, without men, there is no future.
I hear you.
But we're just trying to survive the present.
The great thing that I love about this production
is that all the cinematographers have been women.
And all the directors have been women.
AMBER TAMBLYN: To work with veteran women
in television who have carved their way
and left their mark into TV in the most phenomenal ways,
these are women who are real trailblazers
in their own right.
You're going to be in store for a season of twists
and turns and big shocker moments where characters
reveal who they truly are and where
they become something else.
I think it's just going to be, more than anything,
a [BLEEP] blast.
[EXPLOSION]
You should get out of the city while there's still time.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
WOMAN 2: We will rebuild together.
Who are you?
Yuri.
[MUSIC PLAYING]