The six-episode conspiracy thriller starring Robert De Niro is too convoluted to generate real intrigue. De Niro plays a former president, named George Mullen, who is called back into action by the current president (Angela Bassett) after a nationwide cyber attack.

De Niro stars as former President George Mullen, to whom Bassett’s President Evelyn Mitchell gives unprecedented — and arguably unconstitutional — power to arrest without warrants as the head of a special task force formed after a nationwide cyberattack kills thousands.

In Netflix's six-part political thriller, a crippling attack on American communications and infrastructure leads to abuse of power, political overreach and questionable decisions.