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Critic Reviews
The TelegraphSep 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Diane Lane as the de facto President is as good as ever, noble and kind but never West Wing preachy in her rectitude. ... Ultimately though, this is TV machine-tooled for the times we live in. It is trying to build a “world” populated with multiple characters whose interlocking stories can run and run. It looks like a Marvel movie and it shares those films’ amalgam of astonishing narrative efficacy and yet total fatuousness.
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RogerEbert.comSep 10, 2021
IndieWireSep 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Y: The Last Man” works in pieces and with the establishment of its first season it’s easy to see where things could be stronger as it goes on. Episode 3 is a great piece of television. Lane, Tamblyn, and Romans are stellar and worthy of anchoring this show on their own. If only there could be a stronger balance between the authenticity and the action, then we’d really be cooking.
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The PlaylistSep 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Y the Last Man” purposefully does not provide easy answers, knowing that explaining the situation away would defeat the impetus of proposing such a scenario in the first place. ... It’s not the comic, but that’s probably a smart decision in 2021, the adaptation opting to mine from the bones of its societal concerns to shape a story better suited for our present.
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Sep 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The premiere is an inspired weaving together of creeping dread and disaster movie spectacle, laced with a quirky sense of humor. The subsequent episodes don’t quite live up to that promise, though. ... There’s a really good show somewhere in here, but it keeps getting bogged down by the weight of its own ambitions.
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Sep 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The show has so far proven to be a complex, engaging, and even thrilling work of adaptation. But if the writers and artists bringing it to life can’t properly grapple with the questions they seek to illuminate or push its visual dimensions further, the series won’t touch the hem of greatness within its reach.
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Sep 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s only at this point, five or six episodes in, that Y begins to counterbalance all the necessary, if needlessly plodding, exposition and world-building with more stimulating explorations of character and themes both gender-related and not. ... Y: The Last Man improves so much over the course of its first six episodes that its potential feels limitless. If audiences can weather its apocalypse, the show might well become something special by the time rebuilding commences.
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Sep 8, 2021TV Guide MagazineSep 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
A mystery fueling what becomes a dystopian survival tale, a chase thriller, a quest and, most fruitfully, a political allegory. If only Yorick seemed the effort. Most often, he acts like a self-involved idiot. [27 Sep - 10 Oct 2021, p.7]
The GuardianSep 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It is, simply as an apocalypse drama, good enough. And there are, as the series progresses, signs of hope that Yorick will be relegated further into the background, the female characters will come further to the fore, and that it will start to exploit some of the gyno-opportunities offered by the premise. It could just do with getting there a bit faster, that’s all.
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Sep 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The series is often provocative, generally compelling and almost never quite as entertaining as it should be. ... Clark’s serious-minded approach to Y: The Last Man gives it grounding and thematic richness and sets up several terrific monologues to underline its speculative choices. It also makes the show talky and murky, and although the storytelling doesn’t exactly lag, it never finds the right balance with action-fueled adventure.
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Sep 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s apocalypse-by-numbers, with a good cast — see also Olivia Thirlby as Yorick’s paramedic sister Hero, and Amber Tamblyn as Kimberly, the conservative pundit daughter of the newly-deceased president — and the occasional interesting set piece, but most of it is generic at best.
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Sep 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Add Y: The Last Man to the long list of comics-turned-series since "The Walking Dead" became a smash hit that have yearned to emulate its post-apocalyptic appeal. Like most of the others, this beyond-grim drama falls short, at least initially, despite a strong cast headed by Diane Lane as the US' new leader.
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Sep 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It takes itself too seriously to allow for many other emotions beyond “desperate” and “grieving.” ... Even while furiously grieving, human beings are able to laugh, flirt, and dream bigger than our circumstances might allow. “Y: The Last Man” acknowledging as much wouldn’t betray the genre, but enrich its own reality to become more recognizably poignant — and, yes, harrowing — than the monochromatic pain to which it otherwise defaults.
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Sep 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There’s just not enough here to distinguish it from any number of post-apocalyptic entertainments we’ve had in previous years, other than the gratingly single-minded protagonist. A world with almost no men has so much potential, but this one is squandered on its mostly lifeless characters.
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