161. Kurt Andersen on America's Inflection Points and His New Dystopian Comedy 'Command Z'

Last year, author, screenwriter, and host of Studio 360 Kurt
Andersen joined Riverside Chats to discuss his two volume
explanation of America, Fantasyland and Evil Geniuses. In that
conversation, he mentioned that he was working on a third part to
this series, which would be fictional. He wouldn’t give away any
details at the time, but it turns out that he was working on
Command Z, a new 8 part web series directed by Steven Soderbergh.
The show follows a team from the 2050s who can transport their
consciousnesses back into people today to try to reverse the
trends leading to catastrophes of climate, economics, income
inequality, and more. Today Andersen is back in conversation with
Tom Knoblauch about how the series came to be, what Soderbergh
could bring to the Andersen's diagnosis of the American present,
and then how a show like this can impact viewers in a bleak
political environment.


All episodes of Command Z are available now at
commandzseries.com.