Creators of Hulu’s ‘Creamerie’ Whip Up Post-Pandemic Comedy in a World Where Semen Has Become ‘White Gold’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief In Hulu’s “Creamerie,” the future is female — and it’s also dark, dystopian and funny. Season 2 of the New Zealand-made comedy drama, now airing on the streamer as well as TVNZ, is set some years after a plague has wiped out 99.9% of humans with the Y chromosome, i.e.
men. And, rather than obsessing about the mandemic’s lost males, “Creamerie” focuses instead on the women who have survived and the different ways they heal and rebuild.
The key characters are a group of female dairy farmers and the lone surviving man they have stashed away. “Kiwis have a very particular sense of humor.
We find humor in really mundane things, the day to day. But in a dystopian world, after a pandemic, where everything is stripped back, the basics become quite a big deal.
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