In January 2023, Steven Soderbergh announced that he had filmed a science fiction satire series he was calling The Pendulum Project.
[1] The show was independently financed by Soderbergh,[2] and it was inspired by Kurt Andersen's book Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History.
It stars Michael Cera, Roy Wood Jr., Chloe Radcliffe, JJ Maley, and Liev Schreiber.
[3] Writers include Andersen, Doyle, Wood Jr, Radcliffe, Nell Scovell, Akilah Hughes, Jiehae Park, and Emily Flake.
[7] The Daily Beast critic Nick Schager wrote that "Soderbergh’s direction is snappy, playful, and efficient, and so too are the series’ scripts," writing that "nicely marries socio-political sharpness and jaded absurdity" to "deliver goofy laughs," yet "without ever resorting to sermonizing.