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‘Y: The Last Man’ Team on Exploring Gender and Identity in FX on Hulu Adaptation
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFX on Hulu’s adaptation of “Y: The Last Man” is setting out to ask questions about gender and identity and, perhaps even more deeply, what parts of a person’s identity has been imposed by society?The show, based on the graphic novels of the same title, is set in a world where an extinction-level event wiped out all of the individuals with Y chromosomes — except for two: the titular man, Yorick (played by Ben Schnetzer), and his monkey.“Yorick’s maleness is not what sets him apart in this world — it’s his Y chromosome that sets him apart,” showrunner Eliza Clark pointed out during the show’s Television Critics Assn. press tour panel on Aug.
