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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineFeb 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
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
Season 1 Review:
Sometimes, you can watch a series set in ostensible reality and say, “That could not happen.” It’s absurd. Inane. And “Let’s watch another episode.” Such is the case with “Zero Day,” in which characters do things they never would and the public acts in ways that defy belief, while at the same time the premise is compellingly sound. And the story becomes impossible to let go.
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The TimesFeb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
As we start to see more of the conspiracy unfold, and the players emerge from the shadows, the plot twists will have the audience questioning what they think they know. But one thing is never in doubt: President Mullen is the man we’d all want in our corner in a crisis.
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Feb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It almost feels as if we’re racing to the finish line in the finale, with certain plot points and characters getting tied up in too-convenient fashion, and some questions still hovering over the proceedings as we fade to black. Still, “Zero Day” is a timely and thought-provoking slice of alternate political reality, with the great De Niro in commanding form.
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Feb 20, 2025
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The TelegraphFeb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Having seen all six episodes, I can also warn you that the set-up is far better than the pay-off. The main reason to keep watching is De Niro, whose star power drives the show. Enjoy watching a master at work, even if he looks as if he could do this stuff in his sleep.
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Feb 20, 2025
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Feb 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Robert De Niro, as a former POTUS with integrity, shines in his first crack at series TV, but the double Oscar winner and an A-list cast (love Jesse Plemons) are trapped in a muddled, political thriller about cyber terrorism that is nowhere near as smart as it thinks it is .
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
At its best, it's only boring. At its worst, it presents a nonsensical vision of bipartisan unity and makes dumb decisions about practically everything from plot motivations to the reality of a massive cyberattack. You're better off watching (or rewatching) Mr. Robot.
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Feb 20, 2025The IndependentFeb 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It has limited capacity to surprise, limited interest in provoking, limited ability to entertain. There are worse things in life than watching Robert De Niro’s face for six episodes, but he is let down by material that turns the tortured role of president into a caricature of American earnestness.
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
De Niro looks bored and Bassett has been asked to do little more than appear serious and concerned in a few scenes. It’s surprising to see the talents of two of Hollywood’s most skillful actors squandered, but that’s true of the cast as a whole, who aren’t asked to play characters so much as chess pieces. And the writing is clunky.
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RogerEbert.comFeb 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s a show that never reconciles its ridiculous character choices with its political commentary, a soap opera that wants to be “important” too. This is not to say that a show can’t be a conversation starter and a thriller at the same time, only that “Zero Day” is neither.
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Mullen becomes one of the most trusted people in this country based on a cult of personality, a carefully curated image that he expects the American public to accept because he tells them so. With that uncritical treatment of a man whose most defining characteristic is his aura, Zero Day falls exactly into the trap that it’s ostensibly warning its viewers against.
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Wastes an undeniably spectacular cast on a fundamentally silly and unrealistic story that badly wants to be taken as serious and realistic. The truth is that the cast is too good for Zero Day not to be watchable, but its self-congratulatory conviction that it’s far smarter than it actually is makes it hard to embrace on more than a speculative “What are all these people doing here?” level.
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