The Crystal Cuckoo

2025 · Miniseries · TV-MA · ★ 6.6 · 68% critics

DramaCrimeMysteryThriller

After receiving a life-saving heart transplant, a young doctor travels to a remote mountain town to learn about her donor. Once there, she’s pulled into a web of disappearances, local rituals, and long-buried secrets as the community’s decades of tragedies begin to connect in unsettling ways.

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5 hours to watch · 6 episodes.

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Details

Original title: El cuco de cristal
Years: 2025
Release date: 2025-11-14
Network: Netflix
Language: Spanish
Rated: TV-MA
Max quality: UHD
Critic score: 68/100
TMDB rating: 6.6/10 (78 votes)

About

If you enjoy Spanish mysteries with eerie small-town secrets, shifting timelines, and a folk-horror edge, this may click; Not for you if you dislike frequent flashbacks, slow stretches, or harsh violence, like in The Snow Girl.

Pros: gripping small-town mystery; strong performances; striking rural setting | Cons: heavy flashbacks; uneven pacing; disturbing violence