Their creative development ultimately hinged on distinguishing the before and after with excess and necessity. Kelly strategized with the director of the pilot episode, Louise Friedberg, on how to depict the details of an event that hacks the population in half. Director of photography Kira Kelly, ASC captures the fallout of a world without men, which is a drastic departure from business as usual. It’s a shocking and abrupt event that leaves a mystery behind when Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer) realizes he is the only one left of his kind. Based on the DC Comics series, the show chronicles families in mourning, supply chains upended, and a democracy dominated by men dismantled when every person born with a Y chromosome suddenly dies.
Y: The Last Man kicked off the fall TV season with a dramatic debut.