Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen First Look
Netflix has provided Vital Thrills with a first look at Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, a new atmospheric horror series set at a wedding. Premiering on March 26, the series follows a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials.
From the executive producers of Stranger Things and the director of Baby Reindeer, the story of Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen will be told over eight episodes.
Haley Z. Boston is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer. Weronika Tofilska (Baby Reindeer) is the director and executive producer.
The directors also include Axelle Carolyn (The Haunting of Bly Manor) and Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve, Servant). The executive producers include Hilary Leavitt, Matt Duffer, and Ross Duffer for Upside Down Productions, and Andrea Sperling (Transparent, A Murder at the End of the World).
The Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen cast includes Camila Morrone (Daisy Jones & The Six, The Night Manager) as Rachel, Adam DiMarco (The White Lotus, Overcompensating) as Nicky, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Fargo, Annihilation) as Victoria, and Ted Levine (Monk, Big Sky) as Boris.
The cast also includes Gus Birney (Shining Vale, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window) as Portia, Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox, Oslo) as Jules, Karla Crome (The Last Disturbance of Madeline Hynde, Lazarus) as Nell, and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).
“When I was a kid, my mom said to me, ‘You just need to make sure you don’t marry the wrong person,'” Haley Z. Boston told the Netflix blog Tudum. “[Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen] is about the fear of marrying the wrong person. I’ve been to weddings where people say in their vows, ‘I never once had a doubt,’ I hear that, and I’m like, ‘That’s crazy […] What do you mean?'”
“I love horror,” Boston added. “It’s natural to me, [it’s how] I process my own emotions and feelings and my own understanding of the world,” Boston shares. “I think horror allows you to explore taboo feelings and take all of these fears and give them some bite.”
The show isn’t about jump scares. Rather, as Boston puts it, the tone is “unsettling, getting-under-your-skin dread,” mixed with character-driven storytelling. “I love to explore characters. I think sometimes that’s lacking in the horror genre. My natural approach is from a place of character and dialogue and humor, and then infusing that with unsettling horror … I’m like, ‘I want to be unsettled. I want to be freaked out.'”
“I really saw these characters as [if] they were going on a road trip,” Boston said. “It was like I was there listening to what they were talking about, and I was on the journey with them. It was kind of like, ‘I can’t believe I’m actually on the road trip with these characters I made up.'”
