Married or not, this eight-episode series shall bless you with the never-ageing Shakespearean tweaked question—to marry or not to marry? If you are, and you thought your in-laws are way too much to handle, this series on Netflix will tell you that it can get worse, much, much worse. Coming with an ominous title, like this dauntingly taut elastic band, promising that something very bad is coming at the very obvious corner and then refusing to let you see, until you hit the seventh episode. The horror and thrill caught me giggling.

The giant wedding cake laced with family secrets and some bulky curses—and all of it unfolds in each bit of the episode that you watch. Now eight episodes is a lot of time to spend with a couple—By episode two, Rachel’s already wandering the maze-like halls of the Cunningham family estate like she’s the final girl in a Victorian escape room. The sense of dread is so thick you could frost a cake with it, and, frankly, it would probably taste better than whatever Victoria’s serving at the rehearsal dinner.

However, masterstroke remains at ‘who is your soulmate?’ —here you either marry your soulmate or die—that’s the curse. Picture this situation—you are out there getting your wedding dress measurements taken, but just in case the soulmate calculation misfires, you also keep your coffin measurements on hand.

It reminds me of an idiosyncratic anecdote from my life: a man goes on a spree, labelling different women as goddesses, and tries to figure out which goddess could become his ultimate pair in the end—heaven forbid!

The real curse is the expectation that to know your ‘one true love.’ By the end, that’s what we get to witness, along with everybody is dying, for Nicky (Adam DiMarco) and Rachel aren’t really soulmates—the curse is getting passed on, and Rachel is alive in her supernatural form. It is a flood of blood everywhere—that Rachel (Camila Morrone) leaves behind in the last episode.

The series is both a send-up and send-off to the concept of soulmates and twin flames. Sometimes, these concepts are better left alone, as concepts that you can study, and it is sincerely gorgeous to study, as I can assure you. The series lampoons our obsession with “the one” so thoroughly you’ll want to delete your astrology app and run screaming from anyone who says “twin flame.” Sometimes the real horror isn’t the curse—it’s our insistence on making love life-or-death.

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is a new Netflix horror miniseries released on 26 March 2026.