Third Season of Assisen: When the Viewer Decides Guilt or Innocence

With the launch of its third season, Assisen – De Internaatmoord once again pushes the boundaries of scripted television. The interactive fiction series returns to PLAY Media with a new case, a new moral puzzle and the same central question: who is guilty, and who decides?

Assisen is not a traditional crime drama. It deliberately places the viewer in the role of juror, confronting them with testimony, doubt, bias and incomplete truth. Over the course of the season, the audience follows the trial surrounding a murder at a boarding school, gradually piecing together what happened and ultimately casting a decisive vote on guilt or innocence.

The strength of Assisen lies in its format: fiction that behaves like reality. No omniscient narrator, no easy answers, no neatly wrapped conclusions. Instead, the series mirrors the mechanics of real court cases, where truth is fragmented, perception is subjective, and justice is never entirely clean.

Season three, The Internaat Murder, builds further on that foundation. The case is layered and emotionally charged, touching on power dynamics, trust, and responsibility within a closed institution. As the story unfolds, viewers are forced to confront their own assumptions and to reconsider them, again and again.

For Dedsit, Assisen remains a prime example of how television can actively engage its audience without gimmicks. Interactivity is not an add-on here; it is the narrative engine itself. The viewer’s judgment is not symbolic, it has real consequences for how the story concludes.

With three seasons on air, Assisen has proven that audiences are willing to think, doubt and decide. Not because they are told to, but because the story demands it.