ZERO DAY
Below: George and Chief Of Staff Valerie (Connie Britton).
Roger (Jesse Plemons) and George (Robert De Niro) are in for a bumpy ride.
DE NIRO TAKES TO DE SMALL SCREEN
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OUT NOW (NETFLIX) / EPISODES VIEWED 6 OF 6
SHOWRUNNERS Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim
CAST Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Connie Britton, Lizzy Caplan, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Angela Bassett
PLOT After a massive cyberattack causes devastation across America, former President George Mullen (De Niro) is put in charge of finding the perpetrators.
TV SHOWS DON’T get much more timely than Zero Day. The title refers to a cyberattack that hits the entire US for one solid minute, turning off power supplies everywhere, and showing an ominous message on every smartphone in the country — “This will happen again.” Cars crash, planes fall, hospital equipment fails. Many people die. It’s an attack on an unprecedented scale, which leads to an unprecedented reaction —the Zero Day Commission, set up by serving President Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) to find the culprits through any means necessary.