For Lizzy Caplan, joining Netflix's "Zero Day" was an easy decision to make, citing Robert De Niro's involvement, as well as the "solid" credentials of co-creators Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim and Michael Schmidt.

This interview contains spoilers from all six episodes of "Zero Day," now streaming on Netflix. Lizzy Caplan always knew that her character, Congresswoman and former First Daughter Alexandra Mullen, was behind the catastrophic cyberattack that incited the existential and moral panic that runs through "Zero Day.

The attention-grabbing aspect of “Zero Day” is that it sees Robert De Niro starring for the first time in a television show. But while De Niro’s is the biggest of the names in the cast of the six-episode limited series debuting this week on Netflix,

Robert De Niro leads an A-list cast in Netflix's political thriller "Zero Day," but even he can't rescue it from a silly story.