During a lull in the second half of Netflix's six-part political thriller Zero Day - and there are more lulls than there should be - I began to contemplate how much more efficiently the show's central crisis could be resolved with the assistance of either Owen Hendricks,

While our country is in a state of disarray, it is not yet quite as messy as the fictional America of Zero Day (Netflix, February 20), a new political thriller mini-series starring Robert De Niro. In the series,

It’s been a long time since Robert De Niro stopped saying no to bad parts. But while the star has appeared in many kinds of film, from The Godfather Part II to Dirty Grandpa, the 81-year-old has largely resisted the call of the small screen.