It looks like we’ve definitely seen the last of Y: The Last Man, as the show’s executive producer has confirmed that efforts to find a new home for the series have failed.
The FX show on Hulu premiered in September 2021, but before it could even complete its first 10-episode run, it was confirmed that it would not be returning for season two. However, at the time, the creative team was optimistic that the show could find a new home, urging fans to speak up if they wanted to see more episodes.
Unfortunately, the “#YLivesOn” campaign never had much success, likely because the show had a pretty small audience to appeal to in the first place, and producer/showrunner Eliza Clark has now confirmed that Y The Last Man will not return to our screens.
For those of you who asked me: we really tried to get another platform to pick up Y season 2. But unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be happening. It’s always incredibly difficult to move a show, and in recent years it’s only gotten harder. (thread)January 14, 2022
Clark took to Twitter to update fans of the show, posting, “We really tried to get another platform to pick up Y season 2. But unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be happening. It’s always incredibly difficult to move a show, and in recent years it’s only gotten harder.
She also thanked viewers for supporting the show when it first aired and throughout its quest to find a new home. She ended her post by encouraging people to rewatch the first season and tell “friends to watch it.” However, given the lukewarm response the show has generated from both critics and viewers, we’re not sure that’s advice we’d echo.
Y: The Last Man was an adaptation of a post-apocalyptic comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. The series takes place after a mysterious cataclysmic event simultaneously kills every mammal with a Y chromosome except for a human, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer), and his pet monkey Ampers. The cast included Diane Lane, Amber Tamblyn, Ashley Romans, Olivia Thirlby and Marin Ireland.
It’s kind of ironic that the show’s lifespan was so short, considering it took so long to hit the small screen. The series had been in development for over a decade, with the project taking various forms over the years (a film starring Shia LeBeouf was a possibility at one point). In 2015, FX started working on it as a TV project and eventually moved it to become an FX exclusive on Hulu.
It should be noted that Y: The Last Man’s failure to find a new home was hardly unexpected. While it’s not uncommon for canceled network shows to be revived on streaming platforms – see Netflix backing up NBC’s Manifesto as a recent example – a canceled streaming show recorded by another streamer/network is almost unheard of. . Once FX pulled the plug, it always seemed like the show’s fate was sealed.
The list of canceled TV shows or series ending in 2022 is already growing just a few weeks into the year. I Know What You Did Last Summer has been canceled on Amazon Prime Video while Netflix has confirmed that the fourth season of Ozark will be its swansong. On the plus side, we know there are plenty of renewed TV shows or series returning in 2022, including Emily In Paris and The Boys.
