| "The Day Before" | |
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| Air date | September 13th, 2021 |
| Writers | Eliza Clark |
| Director | Louise Friedberg |
| Producers | Brian K. Vaughan; Pia Guerra; Eliza Clark; Aida Mashaka Croal; Louise Friedberg; Michael Green; Coleman Herbert; Nina Jacobson; Melina Matsoukas; Kristy Reed; Nellie Reed; Brad Simpson; Matt Thompson; Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda |
| Starring | Diane Lane; Ashley Romans; Ben Schnetzer; Olivia Thirlby; Juliana Canfield; Elliot Fletcher; Marin Ireland; Amber Tamblyn |
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"The Day Before" is the first episode of season one of the Y: The Last Man live-action television series, which is based on the Y: The Last Man comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. The episode was directed by Louise Friedberg with a teleplay written by Eliza Clark. It premiered on FX on Hulu on Monday, September 13th, 2021.
Plot[]
Yorick Brown is an out-of-work stage magician and escape artist, who tries to make extra money on the side by teaching stage magic to others. His closest companion is a Capuchin monkey named Ampersand. His sister is Hero Brown, who is a paramedic from Brooklyn, who attends substance abuse recovery meetings. Yorick and Hero are the children of Congresswoman Jennifer Brown.
Congresswoman Brown has an ongoing professional relationship with the President of the United States, though there is some measure of friction between the two, owing largely to accusations of misogyny.
Elsewhere, a woman known only as Agent 355 completes a mission, which involves setting off a bomb at a house of some known criminals. Following this, she is recruited by her respective agency, to take on a bigger mission, which involves the President of the United States.
Yorick wants to make a fancy dinner for his girlfriend, Beth, but he is short on money. He manages to convince his sister to lend him a hundred bucks, which he requires in order to make a romantic meal of wine and grilled cheese. During his date, he asks Beth to marry him, which puts Beth into a very awkward position. Beth is set to move to Australia for her career, which would require Yorick to uproot his entire life. Yorick is willing to do so, until Beth implies that part of her journey may involve meeting other people.
Meanwhile, Hero is having a sexual tryst with her paramedic partner. After having sex in the back of the ambulance, they end up getting into a fight, and Hero begins throwing stuff at him. The man angrily defends himself, and becomes too physically aggressive with Hero. Taking the defense herself, she accidentally kills her lover when a thrown obstacle punctures his throat.
Moments later, the entire world erupts into chaos as all of the male members of the human population begin spitting up blood and falling over dead. Everyone that is, except for Yorick and his trusted monkey.
Cast[]
Starring[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Diane Lane | Congresswoman Jennifer Brown |
| Ashley Romans | Agent 355 |
| Ben Schnetzer | Yorick Brown |
| Olivia Thirlby | Hero Brown |
| Juliana Canfield | Beth Deville |
| Elliot Fletcher | Sam Jordan |
| Marin Ireland | Nora Brady |
| Amber Tamblyn | Kimberly Campbell Cunningham |
Guest Starring[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Sam Prideaux Robards | Dean Brown |
| Jess Salgueiro | Christine |
| Laura de Carteret | Lisa Murray |
| Yanna McIntosh | General Peggy Reed |
| Daniel di Tomasso | Mike |
| Paul Gross | President Ted Campbell |
Co-Starring[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Paris Jefferson | Marla Campbell |
| Quincy Kirkwood | Mackenzie Brady |
| Milton Barnes | Agent 1033 |
| Jacob Mazeral | Freddy |
| Perry Mucci | Chad |
| Maxwell MacCabe-Lokos | Rafe |
| Benjamin Sutherland | Nick |
| Tim Campbell | Robbie Brady |
| Chris Hoffman | James Randall |
| Ali Badshah | Vijay Singh |
| Fraser Elsdon | Ben Walker |
| Shadia Ali | Emily Jenkins |
| Leslie Adlam | Shonda Bryan |
| Bobby Brown | Top brass senior male military |
| Paul Beer | John Cunningham |
| Cru Levey | Nicholas Cunningham |
| Taj Levey | Peter Cunningham |
| Emmett Antal | Jack Cunningham |
| Devante Goulbourne | Officer Patrick Johnson |
| Mark Weatherley | Senator Ken Sterling |
| Adam Chan | Upscale party waiter |
| Alyssa Goodridge | Female Secret Service agent |
| Jillian Lau | Young girl crying in car |
| Michael Harkins | Waiter |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Y: The Last Man was created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra. It began as an ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint, and ran from September, 2002 to March, 2008, spanning a total of sixty issues. The comic was adapted into a live-action television series on FX on Hulu in 2021.
- Actor Sam Robards is credited as Sam Prideaux Robards in this episode.
- Actor Emmet Antal is credited as Emmett Antal in this episode.
- Actor Mark Weatherly is credited as Mark Weatherley in this episode.
- Louise Friedberg's next episode as director is "Would the World Be Kind".
- Eliza Clark's next episode as writer is "Would the World Be Kind".
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Aircraft | Ambulance | Birds | Brooklyn | Crash landings | Dead animals | Deer | Dogs | Exploding buildings | Handgun | Monkeys | New York | New York City | President of the United States | Rats | Throat injury | Washington, D.C. | White House