![]() ![]() The fact that we have a just-in-time economy - there's no storage, there's no preparation for the future. ![]() ![]() And so I learned a ton about the way that our economy works. That was true in 2002, and it's still true," she adds. "The problem is there's an intense amount of gender inequality in lots of professions right now. The show is about what takes place after, where a cisgender man named Yorick Brown, a capuchin monkey named Ampersand (completely computer-generated) and a government agent named Agent 355 (played notably by Ashley Romans) work to unravel the mystery.Ĭlark also had to reckon with other aspects of how the modern world is constructed. Y: The Last Man is about a worldwide event that kills everyone with a Y chromosome, "suddenly and instantaneously," Clark notes. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, needed an update.įor Clark, that meant rethinking how we talk and think about gender and diversity, including making the point that gender and chromosomes are separate, she says in an interview for CNET's I'm So Obsessed podcast series. But she also knew the 2002 story, by writer Brian K. When she was tapped as showrunner and executive producer for the FX on Hulu series Y: The Last Man, writer Eliza Clark knew fans of the popular comic book series the show is based on would have high expectations. This story is part of I'm So Obsessed (subscribe here), our podcast featuring interviews with actors, artists, celebrities and creative types about their work, career and current obsessions. ![]()
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