A world reshaped almost overnight by a single catastrophic loss forms the premise of Y: The Last Man, a 2021 science-fiction drama series about what gets rebuilt once nearly everyone with a Y chromosome is gone.
What is Y: The Last Man about?
The event at the center of the show wipes out nearly every person carrying a Y chromosome, leaving one man and his pet monkey among the rare exceptions in a suddenly reordered society. The series follows the people left behind as they try to hold together what remains of government, community, and daily life, while also weighing what a rebuilt world could look like if it isn't simply a copy of the old one. Rather than treating the disaster as a single dramatic event, the show spends its episodes on the slower work of survival: negotiation, leadership, and the friction between people who don't agree on what comes next. Diane Lane, Ben Schnetzer, and Ashley Romans anchor an ensemble spread across different factions of this new order.
About the cast
Diane Lane plays a central figure navigating the new political landscape, with Ben Schnetzer as the rare survivor around whom much of the plot turns. Ashley Romans, Diana Bang, Juliana Canfield, Amber Tamblyn, Olivia Thirlby, and Elliot Fletcher fill out an ensemble spanning government officials, scientists, and other survivors, each pulled into the larger question of how the remaining society organizes itself.
Context & significance
Y: The Last Man was developed by Eliza Clark and runs about 51 minutes per episode, placing it in the prestige science-fiction drama space alongside other post-catastrophe series that use a speculative premise to examine power, gender, and social structure rather than pure spectacle. Its 2021 debut arrived amid a broader wave of adaptations mining literary and comic sources for serialized television.
Watching Y: The Last Man on Ktime
Y: The Last Man is available on K-Time with a free account login, and both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are included, giving viewers the choice of how to watch. The series page can be browsed before signing in, part of K-Time's effort to bring English-language genre television to Persian-speaking audiences with a Farsi-first experience.