<img src='https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2025/02/21/pchh-zero-day-square-4-_sq-da0a3a2b79cfdbcb191162089082a25e74e53eae.jpg' alt='Robert De Niro as George Mullen in Zero Day. ‘/>
The Netflix series Zero Day begins with a terrifying moment in which everything in the United States goes briefly offline. Thousands of people die, and even after everything is restored, a widespread panic leads to a government investigation of who did it. With a cast headed by Robert De Niro and Angela Bassett, the show hopes to be a paranoid political thriller for our times.
