I am not even completely sure how to explain the love I have for this show, even with only one season having come out a month ago and not a clear answer as to whether or not there will be another season. “Something Very Bad is Going to Happen” is a remarkable and intense show exploring themes of commitment and fear of marrying the wrong person, whether or not fate or choice guides your life, and loss of identity. 

The show follows Rachel, played by Camila Morrone, popularly known for her role in “Daisy Jones and the Six”. She is set to marry her fiancé Nicky, played by Adam DiMarco at his family’s cabin, each episode taking you through the time at the cabin during the days leading up to their wedding. 

Along their travels to the cabin, the two are faced with several weird occurrences, but nonetheless, they arrive at the cabin, which is when Rachel gets a feeling that something bad is going to happen, granted the title. She can’t help but feel like she’s been there before, and from the beginning of the season, it seems like Nicky’s family is planning some sort of satanic ritual against Rachel, but later come to find out that Rachel has a curse on her family. That’s not to say that Nicky’s family still isn’t a little odd. 

This lovely curse that Rachel has is that she will die if she doesn’t marry her soulmate, and if she walks out or leaves Nicky at the altar, then this curse will then transfer to his family. This curse had gotten passed down to Rachel’s family years and years ago due to someone doing that exact thing. Once she finds out about the curse, the rest of the season is taken up by her trying to figure out how to dodge the curse and deciding whether or not Nicky is her true soulmate.

This show was filled with more than one plot twist, with Nicky’s brother, Jules, actually having witnessed Rachel’s mother’s death when he was little after she had gotten married. Interestingly enough, Rachel’s mother had gotten married in the same town years ago, having stayed at a cabin nearby, which made sense when Rachel had mentioned feeling like she had been there before. Nell, Jules’s wife, is another noteworthy character to mention, as her and Jules helped Rachel throughout the way of tracing back her ancestry, trying to help her with the curse, and being the only two who truly believed her. 

The core of the show explores the fear of marrying the wrong person and the battle between staying with someone because they are truly the one for you or the fact that they are a stable, good person, or at least that they appear to be. Not to get too much into my own experiences with this, as they were not as severe of whether or not I was going to marry someone. However, I felt a certain relatability to this theme, as the fear of ending up with the wrong person is quite literally terrifying to me to the point where I’d rather just be alone than have stability without true emotions for the person. That bad gut feeling makes me more stressed than anything else. 

Rachel is constantly told that she is wrong or even that the curse isn’t real, even by her own fiancé. This creates this feeling where she doesn’t know whether or not to trust her intuition, creating an even worse anxiety as the wedding gets closer. She loses herself within the process, feeling trapped and as if every decision she makes creates her doom, pressuring her to make the right decision, or what she feels that is. 

I truly haven’t found this amazing of a show in a long time, where I actually felt immersed and connected to it. I was able to look past the surface of the plot and deeper into what everything actually meant, with there being several symbols throughout the episodes. It is also important to mention that the soundtrack on this show is absolutely incredible, the lyrics reflecting every scene perfectly. 

In the end, there was certainly a lot of bloodshed, only two true soulmates surviving the curse, who were able to teach us throughout the show what it actually means to be with the right person.