Netflix has just added a gripping, star-studded new thriller series

The show has been called 'properly thrilling' and 'preposterously entertaining'.

The six-part limited show sees the actor play a former US president named George Mullen, who is dragged out of political retirement following a catastrophic cyberattack.

Tasked with finding those responsible for killing thousands and unleashing chaos across America before they can do more damage, Mullen must search for the truth.

This proves complicated due to the disinformation that has divided the country, the personal ambitions of power brokers in technology, finance, and government colliding, as well as Mullen’s own "personal demons".

Zero Day was created by Eric Newman (Griselda, Narcos), alongside Noah Oppenheim - former president of NBC News - and Michael S. Schmidt - a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times.

And alongside De Niro, the cast of the show also includes Angela Bassett, Bill Camp, Clark Gregg, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, Gaby Hoffmann, Hannah Gross, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Modine and McKinley Belcher III.

JOE has seen two episodes of the series and can confirm that it is gripping and tense, boasting a number of engaging mysteries and several opportunities for De Niro - one of the best onscreen actors ever - to shine.

You can read some other positive reviews for Zero Day right here:

Empire: "Handsomely made, politically prescient and packing some serious star power, Zero Day makes up for a meandering middle with two properly thrilling final episodes."

The Guardian: [Robert De Niro] is on fine form in his first major TV role – as an ex-president trying to track down the source of a digital terrorist attack. Was it rogue hacktivists? The Russians? It’s preposterously entertaining either way."

Time: "Directed by prestige-TV fixture Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Mad Men), the six-episode series is as stylish and fleet as any feature thriller and smartly deploys its big-name actors."

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