My Mother Saw A Monkey
Y: The Last Man begins with tensions high between Yorick and Agent 355. After the lies about communicating with Brown, she’s struggling. Because we haven’t had any drama for a hot minute, 355 falls asleep at the wheel and crashes into a tree.
Three survivors of a plane crash are held at gunpoint by military personnel after being discovered on the ground. ..
At the same time, the assassin from the last episode, Peggy, tells Jennifer that she’s found a man (Yorick). As she spills the details about the monkey and his appearance, Regina listens with interest. Jennifer though, decides Peggy needs to be reassigned, speaking in private to her associates. ..
Hero’s house is located outside the gates of the city, but Beth shows up to ask where she is. Beth made it back to her house, but couldn’t pluck up the courage to actually go inside. The story is a little hazy, and there’s lots of inconsistencies here, but Brown doesn’t pry. Instead, she’s only too happy to show her around.
When Yorick wakes up, he finds himself naked and in a house with a whole group of people. Amp is in a cage, and as Yorick gets acquainted with these women, he marvels at a slice of toast. Hey, remember when Yorick ate noodles and walked through the pentagon with working TVs and radios several episodes back? Yeah, me too. ..
Agent 355 wakes up first, and sees that they have electricity off a generator. Mann then wakes up, and sees that they are in a cell. Yorick then learns that they have electricity off a generator.
The Welcoming Committee show up to see Yorick, and he feeds back what he knows. It seems like they may be debating about whether they’re going to be killed or not. Yorick is optimistic and believes they’ll be okay, but Mann and 355 are not so sure. ..
Eventually Janis, their leader, returns and decides they can stay until Agent 355 has recovered. They’re allowed to leave at any time too, although Agent 355 is understandably cautious.
Meanwhile, Kim and Regina discuss the possibility of Yorick still being alive. Of course, given Marla actually saw him while sleepwalking, the idea isn’t much of a hallucination to her anymore. Anyway, Kim decides they need to bring Yorick back to the pentagon, believing this is God’s will and that he’s been chosen.
After hearing enough, Marla confronts Jennifer in public, bitterly retorting that her son doesn’t deserve to live over Ted. This leads to Marla deciding to leave. And by leave, she throws herself off the roof of the building, much to Kimberly’s shock. ..
Beth decides to leave after all this drama. She’s apparently been staying with friends, and given how dumb we know Yorick to be, it’s no surprise that he never bothered to actually check there when trying to find his girlfriend.
Agent 355 warns Yorick to be careful as the last male heads off into town to meet the others and eat some of their food. Even Mann isn’t with him. Through some small talk, he learns that the vote to keep the trio in town was actually pretty close. ..
As the team of women enter the Pentagon, they quickly realize that Beth is actually working for a secret team of women. The team’s trust in Beth may have gotten them killed.
The Episode Review
The Last Man continues its slow-paced journey as the road to San Francisco hits another road bump in the wake of the car crash and strange community.
Beth just showed up at the Pentagon, and it’s probably the most anticlimactic moment of the show. She’s not really a character, and her purpose in this story is still unknown. How did she join this group? How did Yorick not notice her outside then if she’s been with friends and in the general area? But again, given the inconsistency with the worldbuilding in this show it’s probably best not to dwell too deeply on this.
The main problem with Yorick is that he is a weak character. If this is the best humanity has left for the male species, maybe it’s best if everything just collapses. We’ve seen this sort of scenario before in something like Children of Men (switching males for babies), and the execution there is far superior to what we’ve been given. ..
This post-apocalyptic story has been dragging on for far too long. ..
