You might take this as a sign your favourite streaming service is refusing to bend the knee to the US’s new regime. Not quite. Reports suggest Sarandos visited Trump in private at his Mar-a-Lago pile just before last Christmas. Perhaps it didn’t go well, hence the lack of Netflix representation at the inauguration – after all, his fellow tech bosses also made the pilgrimage to Florida around the same time. It’s unlikely we’ll ever know what really happened in those meetings.
Zero Day refuses to assign any of its politicians a real-world political affiliation (Photo: Jojo Whilden/Netflix)
Need more evidence? Look no further than Netflix’s content. Zero Day, currently the streamer’s second most-watched programme in the UK, is ostensibly a political thriller with the great Robert de Niro cast as an ex-President, Mullen.
Robert De Niro can't save Netflix's glossy, empty Zero Day
Read MoreThis hasn’t gone unnoticed. Almost every review of Zero Day pointed to Mullen’s painfully centrist point of view as a negative and journalists have been stumped by Netflix’s request to not ask De Niro any political questions. This is a man who used to publicly call Trump a “pig” before realising that would be “a disservice to pigs”.
When questioned about why Zero Day is so apolitical, De Niro’s co-star Jesse Plemons argued that assigning a party to Mullen would distract us from the story. “When you do get into the specifics of a political party, it gives you an out immediately as a viewer to either say ‘I’m for this person’ or ‘I’m against them.’” he told The Times. “Something disengages as you’re watching. We don’t really need any more of that.”
Martin Sheen’s President Jed Bartlet was a Democrat (Photo: Warner Brothers/Sky)We live in a different and more polarised world than when those programmes first aired. Netflix is now worried that any left-wing Netflix subscribers won’t watch a programme with a sympathetic right-wing hero, and vice-versa. Maybe they’re right, but I’d like to think we’re smarter than that. We don’t have to agree with the policies of a fictional politician to see that they make good television. Netflix should be bold enough to let us make our own minds up.
TV is at its best when it reflects the world around us. Grounding a story like Zero Day in reality would make it a richer, more urgent story. It’s hard to care about the American citizens of this false world when they are flattened to an apolitical, unthinking mass.
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