Zero Day to A Thousand Blows: the seven best shows to stream this week
The one and only Robert De Niro makes a big splash on the small screen with a timely political thriller, while Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham star in a gritty tale of Victorian London – perhaps Steven Knight’s best show yetA drama starring the one and only Robert De Niro as former president George Mullen. When the US is hit by a cyber-attack that is as perplexing as it is devastating, Mullen is coaxed out of retirement to head the Zero Day commission – a body that will assume an unprecedented degree of arguably unconstitutional power. But is Mullen still physically and psychologically capable of bearing such huge responsibility? The idea of an American politician caring about levels of control creeping in the direction of authoritarianism suddenly seems rather quaint, but maybe that’s the point? De Niro brings real heft and gravitas to the role as a sad-eyed public servant, mourning a lost America. Netflix, from Thursday 20 February Continue reading...
The one and only Robert De Niro makes a big splash on the small screen with a timely political thriller, while Erin Doherty and Stephen Graham star in a gritty tale of Victorian London – perhaps Steven Knight’s best show yet
A drama starring the one and only Robert De Niro as former president George Mullen. When the US is hit by a cyber-attack that is as perplexing as it is devastating, Mullen is coaxed out of retirement to head the Zero Day commission – a body that will assume an unprecedented degree of arguably unconstitutional power. But is Mullen still physically and psychologically capable of bearing such huge responsibility? The idea of an American politician caring about levels of control creeping in the direction of authoritarianism suddenly seems rather quaint, but maybe that’s the point? De Niro brings real heft and gravitas to the role as a sad-eyed public servant, mourning a lost America.
Netflix, from Thursday 20 February Continue reading...
