TV fans streaming Netflix's new Robert De Niro thriller urged to watch free-to-air 'masterpiece'
After a near 60-year acting career, Robert De Niro’s first ever TV show is finally out on Netflix.
The show has a stacked cast full of huge names such as Jesse Plemons, Angela Bassett, Lizzy Caplan, Dan Stevens, and Matthew Modine.
Add to that it being from the creator of Narcos and the fascinating concept of America coming under a cyber-attack that cuts out all online systems for mere minutes, causing car crashes, hospital deaths, and plane failures, and chaos across the US.
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With all that going for it, Netflix’s Zero Day has to be a huge smash success, right?
Unfortunately, the show appears to be pointing towards being a bit of a flop.
Despite the massive resources thrown into it, the series debuted at just number three overall, below true crime docs about Gabby Petito and Belle Gibson.
Reviews have also been unkind on the series, with 57 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.5 on IMDb.
With one particular review however, fans have been urged to abandon the series altogether and look elsewhere.
Michael Ghanem, a TV reviewer with a regular TV column for The Cut, posted their negative review to Twitter with the caption: “Zero Day is boring, wastes a stacked cast, and worst of all, has nothing to say. Just watch Mr. Robot instead.”
Mr Robot is similarly centred around hackers, cyber crime, and has an all star cast of Rami Malek, Christian Slater and more.
Where Mr Robot differs however is that, not only can you watch it for free, but it is one of the most highly revered and beloved shows of all time.
The show, which propelled Malek to fame, follows an anxious cyber-security engineer who hacks criminals in his own time, but when he meets a ‘cyber-anarchist’ his life spins out of control.
Mr Robot has a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with season one featuring a near perfect 98 percent.
One fan tweeted after the show ended in 2019: “Mr Robot is one of the best shows ever created.
“The writing, acting, storytelling, soundtrack and the cinematography is superior in every way.
“It gave us a nearly perfect ending with a beautiful message about being different and the best mental illness representation.”
Deborah Ross of the Daily Mail gave the show five stars, saying in their review: “This is tensely plotted, tensely directed and hypnotically compelling.”
Another review by Jeff Jansen of Entertainment Weekly which gave it an A Grade said: “Mr. Robot is a worldview-challenging psychological thriller that's steeped in new-century punk politics, nervy with digital-age anxiety, and made with slick, smart panache”.
Mr Robot is available to watch for free on ITV X.
Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, TV, Narcos
Michael Slavin