‘Zero Day’ TV Review: Robert De Niro’s Netflix Political Thriller Fights To Make America Function Again
deadline.com“When is the last time the country was able to solve any of its problems?” ambitious Congresswoman Alexandra Mullen (Lizzy Caplin) screams at her father and former POTUS George Mullen (Robert De Niro) in Netflix’s just launched Zero Day.
It is a fair question for the six-episode political thriller, and for America 2025. Certainly, in a week that has seen a sitting U.S.
president parroting Kremlin bullet points while his manic billionaire buddy takes a blowtorch to the federal government, the Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael S.
Schmidt created political thriller may provide a much needed sugar high of hope, fictional or not. At the same time, ripped right out of the toxic underbelly of modern America as much as the headlines, the Angela Bassett, Joan Allen, Jesse Plemons, Bill Camp, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, McKinley Belcher III, and Matthew Modine co-starring Zero Day will show it can happen here, non-fiction or not.
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