TV Review: Cassandra (2025)

Cassandra (2025) created for television by Benjamin Gutsche

A family moves in to a smart home built in the 1970s. The place is a bit run down but the son Fynn (Joshua Kantara) tinkers with the system and manages to get it back on line. Every room in the house has a monitor with a smiling female face. Also, a tall, slim, red robot has a TV for a head which also shows a seemingly benign Cassandra (Lavinia Wilson). It isn't long before the AI starts doing odd things, especially torturing Sam, the mom (Mina Tander), who is suffering from PTSD after her sister committed suicide in their previous home. Flashbacks show the original owners (and builders) of the house, a biomedical scientist (Franz Hartwig) and his manipulative and paranoid wife whose name is....Cassandra (yep, same actress). The horror drama builds out from there as pre-teen, modern-day daughter Juno (Mary Amber Oseremen Tolle) befriends the AI and father David (Michael Klammer) tries to keep things from getting blown out of proportion by the rest of the family.

The show does a good job slowly playing out the plot, revealing what happened in the 1970s and paralleling it with the present-day family's life. Some of the twists and horrors are a little far-fetched and hard to believe, even toward the end of the show. The series still has its moments of chill and is good at building cliffhangers for each episode. I'm not sure the premise of an evil-AI house holds up for six hours of narrative but this is a good effort.

Mildly recommended and not for the younger crowd. Also, this is a German production and I watched with Englis subtitles.

As I publish this (October 2025), this is only available streaming on Netflix.