Surprise!! Y: The Last Man has been canceled by FX, before the first season is even completed. Actually, if you’ve watched any of the long-anticipated adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s seminal comic book, you probably aren’t surprised at all. It wasn’t very good.
To put a fine point on how little confidence FX has in Y: The Last Man, they canned the show smack in the middle of the first season. If this were a sitcom that wouldn’t mean much, but for a series that was setting up a huge, all-encompassing story about the world following the death of the male species, it’s basically telling viewers not to bother sticking around for the final few episodes. Why bother?
Series showrunner Eliza Clark revealed the news, and vowed to try and find the series a new network…
My statement on Y: THE LAST MAN and Season 2. pic.twitter.com/rFtb6pXu5i
— Eliza Clark (@TheElizaClark) October 17, 2021
Clark added, “I have never in my life been more committed to a story, and there’s so much more to tell. FX has been an amazing partner. But we know that someone else is going to be very lucky to have this team and this story. I have never experienced the remarkable solidarity of this many talented people. We are committed to finding ‘Y’ its next home.”
This is pretty incredible. Y: The Last Man made the Hollywood rounds for years as a feature film, but a series of false starts saw it land at FX as a series. Fans of Vaughan’s comic had been salivating for it, myself included. Then the first episode dropped and it was pretty bland.
