Command Z
Command Z
6.0
A scientist tasks his employees with a "historic" mission to travel back in time to revise history and save the world.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
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 is that individual can make a difference when it comes to impacting climate change, but the irreverent sense of humor keeps the series from feeling preachy. Each episode ends with movie recommendations that tackle similar themes within the episode. On the downside, I really thought I would never have to listen to “The Theme to Mahogany” ever again, when I stopped working at Walgreens years ago. YMMV, but I’m always curious to check out what Soderberg is working on