Streaming: A AI robot from the 1970s – “Cassandra” on Netflix

She likes to sing Schlager by Marianne Rosenberg and Nana Mouskouri, see gay love skeptical and has an antiquated image of women: The life-size AI robot “Cassandra” comes in the Netflix series of the same name, which starts on February 6. No wonder, because the “good fairy” in the household of a large city family dates from the 1970s.

The fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is completely out of hand and stands against humanity already knows about the cult film “Matrix” (1999). Even in series such as “Black Mirror” or “Westworld”, robots sometimes develop a bloodthirsty life.

Director and author Benjamin Gutsche (“All You Need”) now relies on futuristic ideas in retro-look in his mini series: The Liberal family around sculptor Samira (Mina Tanger) and writer David (Michael Klammer) draws in Hamburg after a stroke of fate in The province in a long -awaited house – at that time the first smart home in Germany.

A manipulative XXL vacuum cleaner with humor

Tenager son Fynn (Joshua Kantara) and daughter Juno (Mary Tölle) discover a dusty robot in the basement, which they bring to new life overnight. The Android looks like a life -size vacuum cleaner with a tube screen as a head.

The face of Cassandra (Lavinia Wilson) appears there. The red-rolling domestic help initially looks humorous and useful. But she quickly plays the family members against each other, which in particular gets mother Samira painfully. She is looking for traces by the origin of the retro robot, which leads her back to the 1970s.

The retro futuristic mini series, which was shot in Cologne and the surrounding area, comes up with a very imaginative action. But the manipulative XXL robot with the wide grin unfolds hardly any real scary and swings in terms of design and embarrassing in terms of design.

In addition, the figures sometimes behave extremely unbelievable. So no family member really seems to have a problem with the fact that they are observed in every room – during day and night – on huge screens of Cassandra.

Nevertheless, the six-part science fiction horror series, which takes place on two time levels, offers some humorous moments. This is mainly due to the limited facial expressions of the main character and the opposites that collide here. Ironically, however, it is the AI ​​that dusts and old -fashioned.