Ready. Aim. Fire.
Episode 8 of Y: The Last Man begins with gunshots. As soon as Roxanne enters the room, she shoots Kate in the head. This makes it seem like they’re under attack, so naturally everyone starts shooting at each other. Hope impresses the ladies but Sam is definitely not impressed. However, Nora learns that she’s being kicked out of the facility within a few days - which is surprising to her. Roxanne is completely nonchalant about this news to Nora’s disbelief. ..
Roxanne’s arrival into the community has caused a stir. The women have rallied around her and she seems to be claiming that everyone is welcome. However, things have changed and it’s clear that this community has become sour and hierarchical. Roxanne’s arrival has caused a stir, but it seems that she is not telling the truth about the community.
These flashbacks continue through the episode, showing how the community came to be, including riveting scenes of Roxanne driving trucks around the PriceMax. Great stuff.
Nora feels she’s in trouble and tries to convince Sam to leave with her. However, Hero is just starting to buy into Roxanne’s toxicity. While the pair fight, the rest of the community overhear and inevitably end up eavesdropping, specifically with Sam pleading with Hero to leave this sanctuary together. Hero’s objections bring out bad tempers, as Sam points out Hero’s lack of conviction with keeping promises. As things grow heated, Roxanne interjects and forces Sam into an apology.
Hero is forced out of the facility during the night’s festivities and the reason is because she feels that men are not good at staying. She says this matter-of-factly as the guys continue to dance the night away.
Nora, a single person who’s not in the mood to party though, heads inside once everything has died down and checks on Roxanne, who’s drunkenly passed out on the sofa. Nora senses an opportunity and grabs a canister of gasoline and uses it to set the PriceMax ablaze. The place is seemingly unsalvageable and everyone ends up fleeing.
Nora finds out that Roxanne is a fraud and is actually a woman who has been manipulating the men in her life for years. She comes up with a plan to expose Roxanne and get her to take responsibility for her actions. Roxanne agrees to this plan, but takes on Nora and Mackenzie as part of their inner circle in order to keep them safe. They get to eat first too.
As the episode comes to a close, following a flashback that reveals sexist behaviour at the PriceMax and a patriarchal rule refusing to do anything about it, Roxanne brings the group together once more. Pleased that Roxanne has lived up to her side of the bargain, Nora puts Roxanne’s name tag in her pocket.
The Episode Review
Episode 8 of Y: The Last Man was a disappointment. This entire episode focused on the least interesting plot of the show, alongside the pointless Pentagon politics we’ve become accustomed to over the past few weeks. This series has been struggling for a while now, and it seems like it may be cancelled soon. ..
This show is so adamant on pushing politics as the reason people are watching, it’s hard to believe that it’s even on FX and Hulu. It seems like they were just waiting until it was done airing before pulling the plug.
It’s not that Yorick is a bad character or that the movie is a mess, it’s just that there’s no interesting thing going on here. The only thing that makes this movie worth watching is the fact that it has some really good comics based off of it. If you’re not interested in those, then you might as well just stay away.
With only a few episodes left, we’ll have to wait and see if this gets a conclusive finish or if it’s destined to conclude with an open ending that remains in perpetual limbo. ..
