Get ready for your new Netflix political thriller obsession: Zero Day.
The series stars Robert De Niro, who plays “a hugely popular but complicated former US president” who is tasked with heading up the ‘Zero Day Commission’, an “unprecedented group of experts tasked with investigating a devastating global cyber attack”. He is recruited by Angela Bassett’s character, who happens to be the US President, and must carry out his mission while also dealing with his own personal demons.
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The series has been described as a “ripped-from-reality thriller”, drawing on some very real political and security issues we encounter in the real world. “Right now, our actual world is scarier,” De Niro himself has told Netflix’s TUDUM. He added that transparency and truth is key to his character. “That’s the spine of my character in the show,” he said. “Don’t dodge anything. Don’t play games. Be honest about what’s going on so that the public knows what’s going on.”
It will see the clashing of the government and Wall Street, looking closely at how politics, finance and security problems intersect. Serious stuff. We predict a seriously compelling drama.
Here’s everything we know about Zero Day.
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Zero Day plot
The plot synopsis hints at some serious political drama. “Zero Day asks the question on everyone’s mind — how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?”