Y: The Last Man review – a stale, male manbaby mess

Disney+'s new drama imagines what the world would look like if there was just one man left on Earth ... by sidelining the women who would be in control. What a waste of time

There is much to say about the protagonist of Y: The Last Man (Disney+ in the UK), had we but time and space. For the sake of practicality, let us confine commentary to this: having a whining slacker manbaby as the sole surviving male after a mysterious plague wipes out the rest of XY humanity and upon whom the future of everything depends feels ... yeah, about right. Why not get this last undeserved heap of attention, resources and every other goddamned thing shovelled at your emblematically incompetent ass?

I should possibly have recused myself from watching the series until I was in a better mood. On the other hand, there's something inescapably irritating about switching between looking at the television screen and a phoneful of real-life headlines and not being able to pick out much difference between the fictional dystopia and reality.