Netflix’s Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen hinges on a shocking twist — but what is the big reveal?
Before the show premiered on Thursday, March 26, Netflix teased it as a miniseries centered around an engaged couple whose wedding is derailed.
“Rachel and Nicky are engaged to be married in a week,” reads the synopsis. “Before they can tie the knot, though, something very bad happens to get in the way.”
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen stars Camila Morrone, Adam DiMarco, Gus Birney, Karla Crome and Sawyer Fraser. Jeff Wilbusch, Ted Levine and Jennifer Jason Leigh make up the rest of the cast alongside Victoria Pedretti, Josh Hamilton and Logan Miller.
It takes half of the season for Rachel (Morrone) to discover that her family is cursed. She must marry her soulmate by sundown on her wedding day but if Nicky (DiMarco) isn’t The One, then she will die. If he is, she will live — or, if she chooses not to go through with the wedding, she will die and the curse will transfer to Nicky and his family.
The Witness (Zlatko Burić) is an immortal being who tries to warn Rachel after he leaves his wife at the altar and is cursed himself. Rachel ultimately tries to say “I do” to Nicky but he changes his mind. He agrees to the wedding — but then she backs out last minute.
In the series finale, members of Nicky’s family start bleeding out as a consequence. Rachel bleeds as well because she doesn’t actually believe in her and Nicky — who survives because he knows Rachel is his soulmate.
Rachel goes outside to die, except in a shocking twist, she instead trades places with Witness and is now in charge of watching over Nicky’s family to make sure they marry their soulmates — or else.
“There’s a difference between having a lot of love and someone being your person,” Morrone, 28, told Tudum this month about the ending. “Rachel’s person would wholeheartedly understand her, believe her neuroticism and skepticism, and hold space for her. … Nicky loves her and wants to, but he doesn’t actually understand.”
Creator Haley Z. Boston also broke down the conclusion.
“That [ending] scene is one of my favorite scenes in the whole show,” Boston shared. “I remember thinking, ‘How do I close these characters out?’ The show is about a breakup, ultimately. After you break up, there’s that moment of logistics. … At this point, Rachel is exhausted, and she’s just trying to get out of there. It felt like the perfect ending for them.”
She concluded: “Ultimately, I liked this idea of a death and a rebirth, and in order to get the rebirth, it felt natural that there was a mythological answer. [Rachel] has the curse, so she’s not off the hook, she has to be careful if she ever wants to get married and who she chooses.”
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is streaming on Netflix.
