This year, a particularly large number of exciting science fiction series start. From today you can take a look at one of the first genre highlights at Netflix. According to Dark and the signal dares to Cassandra Another German self-production of the streamer in Sci-fi-like and unleashs a sociopathic smart home that makes life hell to a German family.
German sci-fi thriller at Netflix: This awaits you in Cassandra
The plot of Cassandra follows the Prill family, who moves into a new home in the village. This has not been inhabited for 50 years now and is home to a SmartHome system set up in the 70s that was far ahead of its time-and awakened again after half a century.
The system as Cassandra (Lavinia Wilson) imagines in a friendly voice. She wants to make the life of her new roommates as pleasant as possible on the inside and relies on monitors, cameras and a mobile robot unit installed in all rooms. But as so often in the science fiction genre, this artificial intelligence also has dark ulterior motive: Cassandra wants to be an equal member of the family and plans to get Mother Samira (Mina Tanger) out of the way.
Look here the trailer for the Netflix series Cassandra:
Cassandra – S01 Trailer (German) HD
The new German mini series from Netflix comprises a total of six episodes. You can read about Cassandra in our detailed series check whether the sci-fi thriller is worthwhile. In it is the conclusion:
The wonderfully nasty intrigues and crossing border (children, do not crawl in stoves!) Create a threatening presence from the chunky robot. The thriller fun is contrasted with the tragic family drama of flashback sequences and topics such as sexism, homophobia and psychological diseases that give the wild smarthome chaos a surprisingly emotional note. Retroesthetics, clever science fiction concepts and some wild Twists. As Robot Cassandra was awakened for the Netflix series
The team around series creator and director Benjamin Gutsche mostly put on the implementation of the Smarthome thriller Practical effects. The household help, which was düsing by the house, was not created with computer effects, but is a 80 kilogram and 1.62 meter large robot, which had to be controlled by at least 5 people on the set.
In addition, the series team also used a special technical trickto stage the interaction between human representative and the robot lady Cassandra as authentically as possible. The interactions and dialogues were captured in real time.
For this purpose, actress Lavinia Wilson was transferred live into the scenery from a shielded studio cabin. On monitors she could see and hear everything Cassandras distributed in the house. Her reactions to the game of your colleague: Inside on the set, the fact that facial tracking was in a digitized and alienated form were used in parallel Transferred directly to Cassandra’s screens.
As Netflix itself explains, this film technology was used for Cassandra production for the first time in Germany. From now on you can convince yourself of the result. All six episodes have streamed at Netflix since February 6, 2025.