These Political Thrillers Are Hitting A Little Too Close To Home
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“G20,” “Zero Day” and other recent offerings have depicted aspects of our current administration’s chaos in far too timely ways.
Warning: This story contains spoilers for “Zero Day,” “G20″ and “Paradise.”
Another U.S. president was accused of being unfit for the job.
No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump’s questionable leadership or even the criticism Joe Biden faced last year during his reelection campaign. This is an accusation Robert De Niro’s former President George Mullen faces in “Zero Day,” Netflix’s latest political thriller that tackles cyberterrorism.
While investigating the titular zero day event, Mullen’s authority is called into question when he shows signs of cognitive decline, making the already difficult task of quelling an anxious nation even harder. Had this storyline been hatched after Biden’s feeble mental state became the subject of ridicule during the 2024 election cycle, you would think “Zero Day” was mimicking real-life events. But, considering the series itself was conceived in November 2021, that storyline and other timely elements that surface in the show just “may have been ahead of their time.”
“I can’t say that we were predicting anything; it just worked out that way,” co-creator Eric Newman shared in a Tudum interview, also noting the show’s portrayal of a Black woman as president (Angela Bassett) and a “sociopathic billionaire trying to meddle in the government” (presumably a dig at Elon Musk).
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