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Netflix’s “Zero Day” added $146 million to New York’s economy, the streamer and the Motion Picture Association revealed in new data released Monday.

The Robert De Niro-led limited series, which supported 2,073 local cast and crew, filmed for 103 days in Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios, Manhattan and Queens; across Westchester County, including Briarcliff Manor, Pleasantville, Purchase, Rye Brook, and Sleepy Hollow; Nyack in Rockland County; and on Long Island, specifically in Oyster Bay Cove.

The production’s local spend included over $1 million on catering and other food items; more than $1 million on lodging and accommodations; over $1 million on transportation, including truck and car rentals; more than $450,000 spent locally on hardware and lumber; more than $24 million spent locally on purchases and rentals, and more.

“Zero Day” also participated in New York’s film and TV tax credit program, which Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed extending and enhancing this year.

Over 103 days of filming,...

Netflix kicked off the first quarter of 2025 with a massive release of new titles, several of which have received rave reviews. From comedies to thrillers to Western adventure, the streamer has outdone itself with the wide range of choices in its most recent releases.

The streamer kicked off the new year with a brand new Harlan Coben series, Missing You. Two other highly anticipated releases were the second season of The Night Agent and the final episodes of Cobra Kai.

The best news is, Netflix isn't done yet. The remainder of the year will continue to see new seasons of your favorites including You, Wednesday, The Witcher, Squid Game, and the fifth and final season of Stranger Things.

Below we highlight several amazing new shows released on Netflix in 2025, from a wide range of genres.

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This April, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of Law & Order: Organized Crime to the release of underrated films like Last Night in Soho and Trainspotting. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in April 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Face/Off (April 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Face/Off is a sci-fi action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay co-written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. The 1997 film follows FBI Special Agent Sean Archer, who catches the dangerous terrorist Castor Troy, but he soon discovers that Castor has planted a bomb. To get more information,...

A classic Sergio Leone gangster movie is making its way to the free streaming service, Tubi. Once Upon a Time in America will hit Tubi on April 1. The movie stars Robert De Niro, James Woods, Treat Williams, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello, and William Forsythe. The film won two BAFTA Awards in 1985, one for Best Score and another for Best Costume Design.

Leone, who died in 1989 at the age of 60, was known for directing Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West(1968), and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). Once Upon a Time in America was directed by Leone and based on the 1952 novel The Hoods by Harry Grey. The screenplay was written by Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, and Sergio Leone.

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Actor Matthew Modine, known to a generation of fans as Private J.T. “Joker” Davis from Full Metal Jacket (1987) and another generation as Dr. Martin Brenner from Netflix’s hit Stranger Things, has joined Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise.

Per Deadline, Modine has been cast in MonsterVerse director Grant Sputore’s next feature film, which currently remains untitled. The movie serves as the follow-up to Adam Wingard's Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Modine's casting follows Stranger Things co-star appearing in previous MonsterVerse films, though she's not expected to be in the next one. The two Stranger Things stars are close, as Modine even officiated Brown's wedding to Jake Bongiovi in 2024.

Modine, who is currently starring alongside Robert De Niro in Netflix’s Zero Day, will join a cast that includes Dan Stevens, who is reprising his role as Trapper from Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), Kaitlyn Dever,...

The uproar over Robert De Niro’s presence in Zero Day is quite unfounded. Even the greatest of actors need to let their hair down once in a while. And besides, have you seen some of this all-time great actors recent films, for example War With Grandpa and About My Father?

Zero Day on Netflix is a pulpy political thriller, and De Niro playing the former president of the United States has himself a ball mowing through the massy thought luckily not messy, plot, filled with intrigue and suspense. In publishing parlance, Zero Day is quite a page-turner. Though not quite Robert Ludlum’s Bourne Identity, De Niro’s presence itself assures the series a certain amount of respectability and grace, although I didn’t see the need for the screenwriters (Noah Oppenheim & Eric Newman) to keep moving the pawns constantly to keep audiences’ interest alive.

De Niro looks every inch President material.

Zero Day, the new political thriller starring Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro, has, despite its lackluster reviews, become Netflix’s No. 1 show. Per The Wrap, Zero Day topped the Top 10 English TV list for the week of Feb. 24, garnering 17.9 million views.

The series, which also stars Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Angela Bassett, and Joan Allen, did have a small decrease in viewership from its debut week. Zero Day had 19.1 million views in its debut week. The series' first episode premiered on Feb. 20 and debuted at No. 2.American Murder: Gabby Petito, which held the No. 1 spot the week before, fell to No. 2 behind Zero Day.

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Manhunter, the serial killer thriller by Michael Mann, is streaming for free on both Pluto TV here and on Prime Video here, and it will be moving to Tubi on March 31. Fans of the thriller genre know that this is not only one of the best thrillers of the '80s, but of all time, and introduced many people to the iconic character, Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter. Other titles arriving on Tubi at the end of the month include the Michael Shannon masterpiece Take Shelter, Sarah Polley's recent acclaimed drama Women Talking, and the Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker, among others.

Manhunter follows Will Graham, a retired FBI agent who used to work as a criminal profiler before having a mental breakdown during his pursuit and arrest of Dr. Hannibal Lecktor. Graham's former boss, Jack Crawford, seeks the profiler's help when the Tooth Fairy, a new serial killer on the rise,...

Years before Tobey Maguire starred in 2002’s Spider-Man, and before Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar, the pair starred in the teen satire/comedy movie Pleasantville. The 1998 film is now streaming for free on Tubi. The film also stars Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Don Knotts, William H. Macy, and Jane Kaczmarek. It was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1999, including Best Music, Original Score, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction.

In the film, set in the 1990s, a strange television repairman, played by Don Knotts, is impressed that teenager David, played by Maguire, is so fiercely devoted to a 1950s television series. The mysterious technician then gives David and his sister, Jennifer, played by Witherspoon, a way to escape inside the TV show. David feels seemingly right at home in the silly, yet corny world of Pleasantville, a 1950s TV series, but Jennifer, on the other hand, tries to...

[This story contains major spoilers from the Zero Day finale.]

Zero Day ended with a shock when Robert De Niro’s politician did the right thing.

As a former U.S. president pulled back into politics to investigate the perpetrators of a deadly cyberattack, De Niro’s George Mullen put aside pressure from both the show’s current president (played by Angela Bassett) and his own wife Sheila Mullen, played by Joan Allen, to not tell the country the full truth of what he uncovered. That truth would be informing Americans about a homegrown attack involving Big Tech, but also elected officials like Speaker of the House Richard Dreyer, played Matthew Modine, and Mullen’s own idealistic daughter, Rep. Alexandra Mullen, played by Lizzy Caplan.

But in the end, that’s exactly what he did. He told the country the truth and faced the consequences. Mullen’s daughter turns herself in, and his wife leaves him; the...

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During these fraught worldwide political times, House of Cards fans have found a new TV series to pay close attention to in 2025. The great Robert De Niro headlines his first-ever television show with Zero Day, a six-part Netflix miniseries premiering on February 20, 2025. The political conspiracy thriller stars De Niro as George Mullen, a high-ranking U.S. government official scrambling to deal with a global cyberattack that has shaken the international community.

Of course, Netflix's original programming became popular on the back of Beau Willimon and David Fincher's House of Cards, the political thriller series that became mired in off-screen controversy as it progressed. Avid politicos searching for similar high-stakes drama need look no further than Zero Day, which boasts an even more impressive ensemble cast around De Niro.

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This March, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the much anticipated true crime drama series Happy Face and also the streaming release of the horror comedy film Rumours. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films coming to Paramount+ in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Up In The Air (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Up in the Air is a comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sheldon Turner. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn, the 2009 film follows Ryan Bingham, a man whose job is to travel places and fire people from their jobs.

Award-winning actor Robert De Niro has starred in a long series of critically acclaimed projects. Although his latest title hasn't impressed the critics, it proves interest in anything he does is still high.

De Niro has starred in many films in his career, but his new role in Zero Day comes with a lot of changes. While the actor is no stranger to TV roles - he starred in Star+'s limited series Nada in 2023 - Zero Day was his first time starring in and executive producing a TV series. Following its Feb. 20 debut, Tudum reports that the new political series Zero Day debuted at number two on the global streaming charts between Feb. 17 and 23.

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This March, Tubi is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the brilliant comedy-drama series Loudermilk to the beloved sci-fi drama series Timeless. However, for this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Tubi in the next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the five best movies coming to Tubi in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Credit – Warner Bros.

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is a musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart from a screenplay by Roald Dahl. Based on Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the 1971 film follows Charlie, a poor young boy who gets a chance to explore a famous but mysterious chocolate factory run by the eccentric Willy Wonka.

Zero Day appears to be bulletproof to bad reviews. Robert De Niro's first ever TV series debuted on Feb. 20, 2025, and despite the critical drubbing, the political thriller is number one on Netflix's global chart, beating the smash hit American Murder: Gabby Petito. In the United States, it's second to the Gabby Petito three-part miniseries.

In the week since its release, Zero Day has been number one or in the Top 10 for Netflix around the world. However, critics weren't impressed with De Niro's small-screen debut. The show currently holds a 54% critical and 55% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a rarity when both critics and audiences agree on Rt. Interestingly, Zero Day is rated pretty good on IMDb with a 7 / 10 average rating based on over 14,000 reviews.

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Robert De Niro has addressed the possibility of reuniting with director Martin Scorsese on the filmmaker's star-studded new movie. Scorsese has long been working on a film version of Devil in the White City, Erik Larson's book about serial killer H.H. Holmes.

Scorsese has been developing Devil in the White City for the past 15 years, but there were recent reports that Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star. The movie would take place during the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where Holmes allegedly committed multiple murders.

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When talking about their new Netflix limited series, the creators of Zero Day have been fielding a common question: How did you get Robert De Niro to do TV?

If you ask De Niro, it’s a simple answer.

“I didn’t have any hesitations,” he tells co-creator Eric Newman in a video interview for The Hollywood Reporter about his first small screen role (above). Not only did De Niro sign on for the lead role, he’s also an executive producer. “When we spoke and met first and [Eric Newman] came back with these episodes little by little, they were all good. I said, ‘This is good, smart.’ And the people writing it, [Newman] and everyone else, Mike Schmidt and Noah Oppenheim, you knew what you were writing about and so that was encouraging.”

In the political conspiracy thriller Zero Day, now streaming all six episodes, De Niro plays former President George Mullen,...

For decades, Robert De Niro has been a father figure to the film industry – delivering exceptional performances and never once disappointing in his roles, whether as a maniacal killer or an X-rated dirty grandfather. In his 60+ years as an actor, De Niro boasts a filmography unlike any other in Hollywood, and even as an 81-year-old veteran of the industry, he continues to surprise the audience.

Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II [Credit: Paramount Pictures]

In his latest venture, Robert De Niro steps into the small screen for the very first time since his Hollywood debut. He stars alongside legends like Angela Bassett, Joan Allen, Jesse Plemons, and Matthew Modine in a powerhouse political conspiracy thriller for Netflix that revolves around a deadly 9/11-like global cyberattack.

Robert De Niro takes a potshot at Donald Trump? Robert De Niro as George Mullen in Zero Day [Credit: Netflix]

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This post contains spoilers from Netflix's Zero Day episode 4 from this point forward.

It's been 19 days since the cyberattack when Zero Day episode 4 begins, and there's unfortunately been another attack, this time on the American Homestead Bank. President Mitchell addresses the nation as disgruntled customers protest outside the bank. They are unable to access their accounts, but it goes on step further. Mitchell has placed an immediate freeze on all financial activity through at least the weekend.

During the presser, Mitchell mentions that Mullen has a suspect, potentially for both events, in custody. A reporter asks if it's Evan Green, as Mullen arrested him at the end of episode 3, but she reiterates "a suspect." Dreyer pressures Mitchell to cut Mullen loose as the former president interrogates Green about Leon and Anna Sindler. Green gives him nothing but jokes and asks for a lawyer.

Everyone's panicking about this mess, and ironically,...

This post contains spoilers from Netflix's Zero Day episode 1 from this point forward.

Watching a political thriller series in the year 2025 is admittedly a little scary, and there are a quite a bit of them currently on the airwaves. (Anyone else completely hooked on Hulu's Paradise and looking forward to season 2?) Well, another one has entered the chat thanks to Netflix's new limited series Zero Day starring Robert De Niro.

The Oscar winner plays former United States President George Mullen, and in the opening seconds of the series, we're thrust right into chaos as Mullen searches his study through notebooks and other items on his desk. He picks up a broken frame with a picture dated in April 1975. Lights are whirring, people are pounding on the door to break in, but he frantically attempts to unlock his safe.

Before we can make sense of what's going on, the...

Robert De Niro's new Netflix series, Zero Day, had its debut on Feb. 20, 2025. After decades of starring in some of the most acclaimed and popular movies of all time, the Oscar winner has finally made the leap to television. But it hasn't been easy stepping into the world of TV series, according to the actor.

De Niro explained to The Wrap that production on Zero Day was like making "three feature films back to back," and had a "very strict" schedule when compared to other films he's worked on.

"It was different than a feature, especially than with certain directors that I’ve worked with, but it was good. It’s just another structure, if you will."

But for the star, he wanted a project that would allow him to stay in New York for five to six months. A film would last two to three months, so a...

It’s a quieter week on Netflix UK, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some excellent new additions to the library. This week, Netflix’s exciting new political thriller Zero Day, starring Robert De Niro, is added, and Gladiator and The Theory of Everything return.

First of all, here’s this week’s top highlights:

Genre: Drama, ThrillerRating: TV-MARelease Date: February 20, 2025Cast: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy CaplanLanguage: EnglishWatch on Netflix

Episodes: 6

Genre: Political, Thriller | Runtime: 45 Minutes

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Joan Allen

Robert De Niro is back to his best in Netflix’s latest political thriller, Zero Day. Not one to miss this weekend, make sure to watch an episode or two!

After a devasting cyber attack results in thousands dead, and the threat of another attack looms, former US President George Mullen is called out of retirement to lead...

So many TV series, limited or ‘"unlimited," are dubbed as binge-able, something the viewers can gulp quickly, often in a single go, but really have the plot, tension, or execution (or neither of those) to deserve the epithet.

Well, if you are seeking one that you can easily muster in one go (with the usual breaks), then Zero Day, the six-episode limited series starring Robert De Niro and a quite stellar cast that just started showing on Netflix is certainly the one for you. Actually, it is a worthy watch, whether you want to binge on it or not.

An intriguing (horrifying) idea is developed into a tense, gripping plot with a number of streams that, in the beginning, pose more questions with possible puzzling answers that slowly unravel with a number of surprising answers that are kept hidden almost or fully to the end.

Zero Day is definitely one...

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Robert De Niro is set to make his TV debut in “Zero Day.” The Netflix series follows a former U.S. president who’s tapped to lead a commission tasked with tracking down the perpetrators of a devastating cyberattack responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.

The limited series, which premieres Feb. 20, comes from co-creators Eric Newman (“Griselda”) and Noah Oppenheim (“Jackie”). Lesli Linka Glatter is an executive producer and director of all six episodes. De Niro, Michael S. Schmidt and Jonathan Glickman also executive produce the series.

Below is a round-up of the star-studded “Zero Day” cast joining De Niro in the political thriller and where else you may have seen them.

George Mullen (Robert De Niro) Robert De Niro in “Zero Day” (Netflix)

George Mullen is a hugely popular but complicated former US president who’s pulled...

Netflix's newest political thriller Zero Day made its highly anticipated premiere today, but is a rare television appearance from Robert De Niro enough to please critics? Apparently not, as the series has debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with just a 45% score, with the consensus being that, despite an interesting premise, Zero Day fails to deliver an engaging story over the course of its six-episode run.

"Utterly predictable, and the supporting characters hardly develop," said M.N. Miller from FandomWire, who adds that this causes Zero Day "to lead to a contrived plot that undercuts much of the suspense" with a "rushed" resolution. That's pretty harsh. "This could have been Netflix's successor to House of Cards," commented Alex Maidy from JoBlo's Movie Network, who says that instead it:

Wastes one of the best ensemble casts in recent memory with a story bogged down by red herrings and misdirections while still managing to be somewhat entertaining.

What made “Mr. Robot” such a captivating hacker drama when it aired in the mid-2010s was its incisive perspective. We followed an individual fed up with the greed of the 1%, the monopoly of corporations in American life and corruption at every level. The show had its gimmicks — twists and turns aimed to pull the rug from under the viewer, but it always felt like it had a lot to say about the status quo.

“Zero Day,” Netflix’s latest six-episode thriller, is another hacker show. Rather than being immersed in the hacker’s philosophy and point of view, we follow a government commission trying to get to the bottom of what happened. It is devoid of that rich point of view — the reasons for the hack, once eventually revealed, are unearned stakes deflated by an entire season of repetitive dead-end plotting and muted performances that don’t do much...

In Netflix’s new political thriller series “Zero Day,” Dan Stevens plays Evan Green, a brash, outspoken internet star who becomes enmeshed in a White House investigation into a global cyber attack.

Robert De Niro stars as George Mullen, a former U.S. president who comes out of retirement to lead the investigation. In one scene, De Niro and Stevens are practically nose-to-nose as Mullen interrogates Green. “It was the perfect dynamic really because there’s this character who is suddenly face-to-face with Robert De Niro, face-to-face with Mullen, face-to-face with this giant figure that’s sort of been looming over the story, it was kind of thrilling,” Stevens tells me on the new episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “But it is sort of the perfect encounter that you could imagine within it. Rather than having to be all sort of cozy and chummy with him, it was like,...

Robert De Niro headlines his first TV series on Netflix’s Zero Day, all six episodes of which are now streaming. But should you have zero doubts about checking it out?

As of Thursday morning, the political thriller has a score of 57 on Metacritic based on 16 reviews, putting it in the mixed or average range. On Rotten Tomatoes, it is rotten at 44 percent.

Created by Eric Newman (Narcos), Noah Oppenheim, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael S. Schmidt, Zero Day stars De Niro as President George Mullen, who is asked by current President Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) to head an investigation into a cyberattack. The cast includes Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Connie Britton, Joan Allen, Bill Camp, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, and McKinley Belcher III. Lesli Linka Glatter directed all six episodes.

On Metacritic, four critics gave Zero Day a score of 80, its highest. “An astonishing amount of fun — firmly grounded...

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Zero Day is a political techno-thriller drama series created by Eric Newman. The Netflix series follows Former President George Mullen, who is appointed as the head of the Zero Day Commission to investigate a devastating cyberattack on the people of the United States. Zero Day stars Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, Connie Britton, Bill Camp, Dan Stevens, Angela Bassett, Matthew Modine, and McKinley Belcher III. So, if you loved the conspiracy thriller story, nail-biting drama, and compelling characters in Zero Day, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Plot: Respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos, and thousands of fatalities, across the country. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street, and government collide, Mullen’s unwavering search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets while risking all he holds dear.

Review: Throughout his sixty-year career, Robert De Niro has made dramas, comedies, documentaries, period films, and virtually every genre you can think of. He has played heroes, soldiers, politicians, villains, and everything in between, but Zero Day represents two substantial firsts for the iconic actor. For the first time, Robert De Niro is starring in a television series, and for the first time, he is portraying the President of the United States. Accompanied...

Robert De Niro appeared on The Late Show to promote his new Netflix series Zero Day, on which the actor plays a former U.S. president. During the conversation, host Stephen Colbert asked if De Niro has any heroes.

“Well, [Marlon] Brando, I knew him a little bit and did a movie with him,” De Niro said. “As young actors we all looked up to him. He was a very smart, interesting guy. Liked to talk a lot about interesting things.”

When pressed to name more of his heroes, De Niro acknowledged,...

Minor spoilers ahead for Netflix'sZero Day. Please proceed with caution.

Netflix's latest political thriller, Zero Day, isn't exactly a comforting binge-watch in 2025. With a finger on the pulse of contemporary America, the series, created by Noah Oppenheim (producer for NBC's Today Show), Eric Newman, and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Michael S. Schmidt, aims to coax, rather than to quell, latent fears that will be familiar to anyone who watches the news. The show is a fiction, but its narrative is spun from the strands of real-world social and political unease; the government can't be trusted, the people want answers, and even the alleged speakers of truth to power are out to make a quick buck. On its surface,Zero Day'sthemes are the evergreen stuff of political thrillers everywhere, but its execution is specifically tailored to a modern, media-addled American mindset.

The story follows George Mullen...

“When is the last time the country was able to solve any of its problems?” ambitious congresswoman Alexandra Mullen (Lizzy Caplan) 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 political thriller created by Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael S. Schmidt and starring De Niro, Caplan, Angela Bassett, Joan Allen, Jesse Plemons, Bill Camp, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, McKinley Belcher III and Matthew Modine, 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, Zero Day will show it can happen here,...

During a lull in the second half of Netflix’s six-part political thriller Zero Day — and there are more lulls than there should be — I began to contemplate how much more efficiently the show’s central crisis could be resolved with the assistance of either Owen Hendricks, the protagonist of Netflix’s The Recruit, or Peter Sutherland, the protagonist of Netflix’s The Night Agent.

Netflix’s recent political thrillers have been rendered largely fungible by the streamer’s compact release schedule. The Diplomat is the best of this group, so I’m going to leave it out of the conversation. The Recruit is a goofy show, but it steers into its absurdities with reckless and fast-moving abandon that I appreciate. The Night Agent takes itself much more seriously, but creator Shawn Ryan has a tremendous internal editing mechanism that keeps the show lean and propulsive.

The sad truth is...

"Zero Day" arrives at either the best possible time or the worst. It is a paranoid political thriller for our paranoid political times; a series that bundles up hot-button issues plaguing modern American politics today and presents them in a slick, engrossing package. I suppose you could call it "timely," but the problem is that right now, as I write this review, things seem so fraught and perilous in the country that I'm not sure anyone is going to be in the mood to watch this new Netflix limited series, created by Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, and Michael Schmidt, and featuring a cast of heavy-hitters led by Robert De Niro (in his first TV series). If you're looking for braindead escapism to take your mind off of how terrible everything is right now, "Zero Day" may not be what you're looking for. And yet, the show isn't nearly as deep...

In the Netflix political thriller Zero Day, a cyberattack shuts down America’s electronic infrastructure. The blackout lasts only one minute, but that’s enough time to leave thousands dead and the surviving millions in a state of fear. With a subsequent cyberattack looming, the government rallies an extraconstitutional task force to locate the source of the initial one. And believe it or not, the least of this terminally dull show’s problems is that the damned committee doesn’t even convene until the second episode.

The first episode is spent establishing the man placed in charge of this task force, ex-President George Mullen (Robert De Niro), who’s as reluctant as you’d hope for anyone to be when entrusted with such a degree of power. But Mullen is less a character than an idea, the fictional concept of the American president made flesh. Emerging from retirement, he makes...

If you find yourself watching political thriller Zero Day and asking yourself if the events it depicts could really happen, you aren’t alone.

In the limited series, a catastrophic cyberattack brings former US President George Mullen out of retirement to find those responsible for killing thousands and unleashing chaos across the country. Created by Eric Newman and Noah Oppenheim, Zero Day, now streaming on Netflix, is a race against time as Mullen searches for the truth amid disinformation that has divided the country, while the personal ambitions of power brokers in technology, finance, and government collide, and Mullen’s personal demons wage war from within.

Angela Bassett, Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Joan Allen, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp, Dan Stevens, McKinley Belcher III, Gaby Hoffmann and Clark Gregg also star.

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Robert De Niro is one of the most known actors in film, and now he's bringing his talents to the small screen in Zero Day on Netflix! In his first major role on television, the actor is not just taking on any character. But he's playing the President of the United States. The new series drops on the streamer soon, so when can you start tuning in?

Zero Day premieres Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025 at 12 a.m. Pt / 3 a.m. Et on Netflix. There's a total of six episodes. I mean, if you want to stay up late then that's your choice. However this is a pretty heavy show, so it's going to need all your focus. Unless you're a night owl, you might want to wait until much later in the day to watch.

But, it's not just us in the U.S. who get to enjoy the upcoming political thriller.

Robert De Niro and Angela Bassett are stepping out for the premiere of their new Netflix limited series!

The award-winning stars posed for photos together at the world premiere of Zero Day on Tuesday (February 18) held at The Plaza Hotel in New York City.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Matthew Modine, Joan Allen, Bill Camp, Eden Lee, Mozhan Navabi, Dan Stevens, Mark Ivanir, Clark Gregg, and McKinley Belcher III.

Here’s a synopsis: Robert De Niro stars as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street, and government collide, Mullen’s unwavering search for the truth forces him to confront his...

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Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro opens up about struggling on the set of Netflix's Zero Day.

Per Variety, De Niro described the experience of filming Zero Day as akin to "doing three features back to back." De Niro discussed his work on the upcoming political thriller, adding, "I was in most of it. And so I had to keep up with everything, even as simple as knowing the lines. So I likened it to being in the English Channel - swimming to England from France, looking behind me and not seeing France, looking ahead, not seeing England. I gotta keep going, otherwise I'm gonna sink."

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Robert De Niro’s first foray into series television proved to be an endurance test for the legendary actor, who compared filming Netflix’s “Zero Day” to swimming the English Channel — with no sight of either shore.

“It is like doing three features back to back,” De Niro said at a preview event in London on Wednesday. “I was in most of it. And so I had to keep up with everything, even as simple as knowing the lines. So I likened it to being in the English channel — swimming to England from France, looking behind me and not seeing France, looking ahead, not seeing England. I gotta keep going, otherwise I’m gonna sink.”

The Oscar winner leads the cyber-thriller as former U.S. President George Mullen, who leads the Zero Day Commission in investigating a devastating cyber attack that has caused nationwide chaos and thousands of fatalities. The...

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Robert De Niro is heading back to Netflix. The Oscar-winning actor is set to star in a new crime thriller for the streaming service.

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This February, we are getting a ton of great shows on various streaming services. From the much-anticipated Season 3 series of the Prime Video series Reacher to the all-new political conspiracy thriller series starring Robert De Niro. So, we are here to sort out all of the brilliant upcoming shows that you might want to check out.

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Netflix has established itself as one of the giants of streaming service providers. They never fail to provide Original shows, whether it is high-stakes thrillers, comedy, or heartwarming dramas. The streaming giant ensures there is something new for everyone. Netflix also has a reputation for updating its roster regularly to make sure none of its viewers are stuck on the same old content all the time.

With February just a few days away, the streaming service is adding new original shows and TV series to its current list of shows. Whether it’s the introduction of a new show or an updated season for an already-running blockbuster, there’s something for everyone.

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Robert De Niro stars in the Netflix political thriller series Zero Day, and that’s going to debut this year. Here’s the trailer.

Over his extraordinary career, Robert De Niro has only appeared sporadically on the small screen. Perhaps most memorably, he appeared in a cameo at the end of series two of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Extras. He also played politician Bernie Madoff in the HBO television film The Wizard Of Lies, appeared on Sesame Street and thus far has hosted Saturday Night Live three times.

He now leads Netlix thriller series Zero Day.

The synopsis reads as follows:

Netflix’s Zero Day is a limited thriller series starring Robert De Niro as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and many fatalities.