NORA BRADY (Marin Ireland) Y:The Last Man
We get several versions of Nora, the first being a press aide promoting the ideas of a politician with with whom she entirely disagrees. The apocalypse makes her, first bewildered, then desperate, hopeless, and finally ferocious. At the end of the show’s first (and hopefully not last) season she realizes that the post-apocalyptic world in which she finds herself is where she was born to be and reverts to the name she was given at birth: Victoria. Showrunner Eliza Clark described Nora to SyFy Wire: “She’s stripped of the things that she thought her life was made of, and what her identity was made of. I think she feels oddly strange about being alone with her daughter. I don’t think that was ever in her plan. You see in the pilot that the kid wakes up from a nightmare and is calling for her dad. That scene, and Nora’s discomfort with motherhood continues in a way that I think is really exciting, and you don’t see a lot of that on television.”
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