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In “Creamerie,”currently playing on Hulu, 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. You can find a lot of humor in [characters] trying to get back to normal,...

It’s a hell of time for the Y chromosome set in the New Zealand apocalyptic disaster comedy, Creamerie. Season one of this wickedly fun series presented a clever premise: A virus has decimated all the men on Earth — except one, the secretly discovered and hunky Bobby, played by Jay Ryan of TV’s Beauty and the Beast. Three New Zealand female dairy farmers, Alex (Ally Zue), Jamie (JJ Fong), and Phillipa/Pip (Perlina Lau) find Bobby, and together, this motley crew soon discover that everything they’ve believed to be true may not be entirely true at all.

Apparently, Bobby isn’t the only man left on the planet. This effects the estrogen parade, of course, as the women must evade Lane (Tandi Wright), the ominous matriarch of Wellness, the group that has been monitoring a tricky repopulation plan with its semen lottery — hey, it pays to have kept those sperm banks around.

The hit New Zealand apocalypse comedy Creamerie is coming back, and we have an exclusive season two clip! “Scheduled to land on commissioning broadcaster Tvnz’s Tvnz+ today and on Hulu this Saturday, July 15 in the US, Creamerie drops audiences into a world where men have been supposedly wiped out by a mysterious plague, and follows three friends who now run a dairy farm under the watchful eye of Wellness, the local governing body. You can check out our exclusive clip from Creamerie season two above.

Creamerie picks up after a virus plague that decimated men around the globe, and follows three female dairy farmers from New Zealand, Alex, Jamie, and Pip, who accidentally run into the last surviving male on the planet... or is he? An organization called Wellness now runs their community and controls repopulation via lottery, using semen saved from old sperm banks. The friends' lives are...

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Where to Watch ‘Creamerie’: Hulu (the show originally aired in New Zealand on Tvnz)

Sociologists will look back at this point in pop culture history and see 2021 as a year that a certain corner of TV immersed itself in fictional pandemics. “Sweet Tooth,” “Y: The Last Man,” and the upcoming “Station Eleven” all kick off their stories with a world in rapid decline. There may be a bit of a placid intro to kick things off, but it isn’t long before things take a drastic, doomed turn.

To that subgenre, add “Creamerie,” which will probably end up being the funniest of this growing group of on-screen overnight societal transformations. The show leads off with its own share of blood, splattered against a locker room wall. A tracking shot time lapse shows how one building goes from the epicenter of an outbreak to...

In 2013, a group of New Zealanders got together to make a series called Flat3, about a trio of Kiwi-Chinese women who live together. After receiving plenty of praise for their work as well as a number of accolades at web festivals, the girls of Flat3 have returned to show viewers what they get up to during the weekend. Jj Fong, Perlina Lau, and Ally Xue are the stars of Friday Night Bites, a series written and directed by Roseanne Liang and produced by Kerry Warkia.

Each episode of Friday Night Bites features a different Friday night activity undertaken by the Flat3 gang and their friends. The comedy here is distinctly Kiwi, and viewers who have enjoyed shows like Flight of the Concords will smile at the dry wit on display here. At the same time, Friday Night Bites goes far beyond its national borders. In comments posted on videos within the series,...