The most popular Netflix title dominating the platform this week is Zero Day — a political conspiracy thriller series starring Robert De Niro as a former US president who gets pulled out of retirement to investigate a devastating cyberattack, unraveling a dangerous conspiracy that threatens American democracy.
The series comes from co-creators Noah Oppenheim, the former president of NBC News, as well as producer and screenwriter Eric Newman (American Primeval, Griselda, The Watcher, Narcos, and Narcos: Mexico) and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael S. Schmidt. Netflix publishes its ranking of the hottest TV shows each week, and we’ll take a closer look at Zero Day below, as well as the rest of what’s hot on the streamer at the moment.
Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s this week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix, based on the latest updated data from the company:
- Zero Day — 17.9 million views
- American Murder: Gabby Petito — 11.3 million views
- Running Point — 9.3 million views
- Toxic Town — 4.8 million views
- The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist — 3.8 million views
- Love is Blind (Season 8) — 3.2 million
- 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards — 2.6 million views
- Raw: 2025 (Feb. 24, 2025) — 2.6 million views
- Ms. Rachel (Season 1) — 2.5 million views
- American Murder: Laci Peterson (Season 1) — 2.1 million views
To learn more about some of this week’s other most-watched series, you can go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of some of the Netflix originals above, such as Running Point — a new sports comedy from Mindy Kaling reminiscent of Ted Lasso. For now, though, let’s focus on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world at the moment.
Zero Day — #1 on Netflix
The current top-ranked Netflix title in the world by viewership, Zero Day is a #1 show in 73 countries this week after hitting the streamer last week. For what it’s worth, it’s also the most popular show on Rotten Tomatoes this week.
Set in a near-future America grappling with rising distrust in government and institutions, Zero Day follows George Mullen (Robert De Niro), a charismatic former president. When a coordinated cyberattack cripples critical infrastructure across the country, Mullen is reluctantly drawn back into the political spotlight as part of an investigation into the unprecedented breach. As he works alongside government agencies and intelligence operatives, Mullen begins to suspect that the cyberattacks are just the first stage of a larger, more insidious conspiracy designed to destabilize the country from within.
As Mullen digs deeper, he faces mounting pressure from both political adversaries and old allies, forcing him to confront the legacy of his own presidency and the secrets he thought he’d buried. The series blends fast-paced action with complex political intrigue, exploring the dangers of misinformation, the vulnerabilities of modern society, and the blurred lines between truth and manipulation in an era of global cyber warfare.
Check out our deeper dive here into the plausibility of the show, with comments from security experts who talk about what the hit Netflix series gets right — and where it stretches things just a bit.
