Command Z

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Command Z

2023

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Funny thing about the future.

A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.

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Kevflix And Chill
Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★★½ 4

When Christopher Nolan is like “Let’s shoot the whole thing in IMAX 70mm and develop a brand new black and white film for the picture”, Stephen Soderberg is more like, “Does anyone have an iPhone 5 they’re not using at the moment? I had an idea for a project.”
Enter his new low budget, sci-fi comedy “series” Command Z (not about zombies). An 8 episode of varying length (around 96 minutes total), about 3 individuals in the  year 2053 hired by an AI to go back in time to 2023 to attempt to curb climate change. Michael Cera is the stand out, his dry delivery of the AI dialogue made up most of my favorite moments from the show. The overarching theme…

Grégoire Canvel
Review by Grégoire Canvel Liked

did a few days on this last summer and crossed off my number 1 production bucket list item, which was to be on a sodie set. Anyone that knows me knows the love I have for this man and his work. Having my name in these credits is cool as hell man! Dude is out here making self financed student-scale projects with the professionalism of a veteran and the hunger of a newbie. nothing but respect for my king.

Paul
Review by Paul Liked

It’s a neat experiment and necessarily bad per say. It’s just slight by design because the whole point is for it to push you to like. Actually do stuff in the world to combat climate change and all that but nevertheless it’s still like. Eh in the end. It’s still pretty fun to watch though and my money went to charity so I don’t feel negatively about seeing it. One 2023 Soderbergh show? down and one to go

Daniel Garber
Review by Daniel Garber

Somehow tech bro CEO Michael Cera feels like a direct extension of George Michael Bluth wearing a muscle suit

Stephen Gillespie
Review by Stephen Gillespie ★★★ 2

The Twin Geeks Review 

Just a few days ago, you could find articles aplenty saying that there was a new Steven Soderbergh series that you should check out. Full Circle (2023) debuted on the is-it-or-is-it-not-a-real-streaming-service-and-will-it-survive-the-summer, Max, and you can read about how it is apparently an interesting take on a Kurosawa classic — from the looks of it, High and Low (1963). I wouldn’t know, I don’t have Max (or whatever it’s called by the time this article publishes (if it even still exists)). And then, just a few days later, on his own website, he drops another web series.

Pointing out how a Soderbergh project is going under the radar on a streaming service is now old hat, as…

JKM
Review by JKM ★★★★ 1

"There used to be an argument in the show that got cut. It was about whether someone’s intentions really matter. I certainly fall on the side of it being past the point where we have the time to parse people’s intentions. We need to pay attention to what they actually do, and hold them to account for that. I don’t care if they’re doing it for a tax break or to get laid — as long as they’re doing something helpful."

I interviewed Steven Soderbergh and Kurt Andersen.

Nick Newman
Review by Nick Newman

I talked to Steven Soderbergh about this series (or film) and Full Circle for Polygon.

There was an initial version that you shot and threw out, which was TikTok-centered and involved, as you have said, people from the future talking about our current world. Does that format especially interest you from both a formal angle — camera setup, editorial tricks — but also its means of distribution and exposure, which you’ve experimented with so much in your career?

It’s not really suited to the kind of narrative that I’m built for, is what I discovered. It clearly has become a very important format. But for things to work in that format they really have to fall within a certain style…

Chodie_Foster
Review by Chodie_Foster ★★★

Steven Soderbergh had a highly productive yet somewhat disappointing 2023. I'd nestle his web series Command Z somewhere between the just-barely-interesting-enough Full Circle miniseries for Max, and the misguided sequel Magic Mike's Last Dance.

This is a time-travel comedy across eight short episodes, mainly featuring a small cast, but with a few celebrity guest spots here and there. It was originally paywalled behind a climate change charity site, but all episodes are now freely available here. My most charitable act was continuing to watch past the first two episodes, which do not make a great impression. With the third episode and beyond, the light-chuckle-worthy humor begins to land more successfully.

luisdementia
Review by luisdementia ★★★

Ligera y poco sutil, es una atípica comedia que funciona como ejercicio de divertimento que no se toma demasiado en serio. La dirección es eficiente y dinámica, con guiones absurdos y mordaces que entretienen sin ser pesados.

Johann Rucker
Review by Johann Rucker ★★★★ Liked 1

Fucking trillionaires think they can make everything better with money... pass through the eye of a wormhole into the kingdom of God.

Weirdest thing he's done since BUBBLE!

Soderbergh's eternal willingness to fuck around is the energy that keeps this whole damn medium going.

Stav!!!!