TV
COMMAND Z
THE STEVEN SODERBERGH PROJECT SO SECRET, EVEN DANNY OCEAN COULDN’T HEIST IT
‘Dead’ tech billionaire Fealty (Michael Cera) addresses his workforce.
★★★
OUT NOW (COMMANDZSERIES.COM) / EPISODES VIEWED 8 OF 8
SHOWRUNNER Steven Soderbergh
CAST Michael Cera, Liev Schreiber, Roy Wood Jr., Chloe Radcliffe, JJ Maley
PLOT In the future, a team of time-travellers are tasked to travel back to the year 2023 — to try to fix the existential problems facing humanity.
EVEN BY STEVEN Soderbergh’s famously mercurial standards, Command Z is a swerve. Filmed in secret and announced only three days before release; made with “hope and laughter”, as promoted by the director’s fictional assistant, ‘Fabrizia del Dongo’; hyped with a trailer that teased a show “from the a** of Steven Soderbergh”; bypassing all usual channels to instead simply drop on Soderbergh’s personal website, available for a fee of just eight bucks, all proceeds donated to charity... the whole thing is wild, before you even hit play on episode one.