SummaryFormer U.S. President George Mullen (Robert De Niro) is asked by the current President Evelyn Mitchell (Angela Bassett) to head up the Zero Day Commission after a cyberattack in the limited series co-created by Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and the New York Times' Michael S. Schmidt.
Created By:Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, Michael Schmidt
❮ Zero Day
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Feb 19, 2025
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52
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4.8
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
52
31% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
41% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
28% Negative
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
Feb 27, 2025
80
This timely, taut six-part political thriller juggles enough worst-case scenarios to turn the viewer into a basket case. [3 - 23 Mar 2025, p.4]
Feb 20, 2025
73
It has the aesthetics of a weighty political drama with the soul of an airport paperback. It's like a high-end version of Designated Survivor. If your expectations are set at "fun," not "important" or "great," you will have a good time.
Feb 20, 2025
60
"Zero Day" deserves some credit for voicing serious concerns about the world (and country) we've built for ourselves, but in the end, it doesn't have much to say.
Feb 20, 2025
50
“Zero Day” invites many such quandaries without offering much in the way of satisfying answers.
Feb 20, 2025
40
Mullen’s positions and policies are obscured to the point of irrelevancy. And when the few convictions he does espouse are violated, neither the show nor Mullen himself seem to register the contradiction as a moral injury significant enough to require real redress.
Feb 21, 2025
30
What we get instead is a pundit-brained muddle designed to exploit national anxieties while studiously avoiding any hint of a point of view, riffing on recognizable figures but ignoring the context that produced them.
Feb 19, 2025
25
There’s maybe half an idea here about the corruption of the seemingly incorruptible, but good luck seeing even that much of it given how hard this anodyne series works to drain itself of context and specificity.
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4.8
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Dec 14, 2025
6
The miniseries gets off to a promising start. The subject matter keeps you glued to the screen. But then the plot doesn't really go anywhere. Who are the enemies? How can they be found? On the one hand, there's a lot of blah blah blah, and on the other, little clarification. And then at the end, everything happens very quickly, and some things are never really explained.
