Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen is an atmospheric horror series set at a wedding, following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials. That’s not a spoiler - just read the title.
- Metascore65
- 2026-2026
- 1 season
- Netflix
- Drama, Horror, Suspense
- TV-MA
Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen is an atmospheric horror series set at a wedding, following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials. That’s not a spoiler - just read the title.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2026
Episode 1
Never Get on One Knee
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 51 mins
Rachel Harkin and Nicky Cunningham head upstate to his isolated family home, passing empty roads, gas stations, and strange people who linger too long in conversation. The trip fractures into uneasy moments: a near crash, a crime podcast about a long gone killer, arguments overheard in public places. By the time they reach the house, Rachel steps into a family she barely knows, each member carrying a different temperature of welcome. The atmosphere tightens quietly. Something unseen presses closer.
Episode 2
Bride-Shaped Hole
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 49 mins
Rachel Harkin finds herself trapped in a domestic nightmare when her wedding dress vanishes inside the suffocating walls of her in-laws' estate. Left alone while her fiancé embarks on a convenient errand, she becomes the unwilling mannequin for a family legacy she never requested. Every interaction with the Cunningham women feels like a slow-motion dissection, stripping away her autonomy and her connection to her own history. Tension spikes as medical supplies and open graves suggest a ritualistic end for the outsider. The arrival of the groom provides an explanation that reframes the horror as a desperate, morbid act of grief.
Episode 3
I Will Light You on Fire
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 41 mins
Rachel navigates the stifling atmosphere of the Cunningham estate while an unseen presence tracks her every movement. Tension mounts as she attempts to bridge the emotional chasm between Nicky and his dying mother; Victoria. The arrival of a gruesome taxidermy display underscores the latent violence permeating the household. Rachel proposes a collective reckoning to address the looming grief; yet her efforts only expose deeper fractures. While Jules and Nell engage in a disturbing; simulated drowning; Rachel remains unaware of the physical danger closing in. The night concludes with a desperate struggle in the dark as the boundaries between psychological paranoia and tangible threat finally collapse.
Episode 4
The Witness
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 41 mins
Rachel carries a wound she cannot name because its origin lives on a tape no one showed her. She moves through her present crisis with the particular loneliness of someone who suspects she is broken in a way that predates her. When her father finally surrenders the footage, the past stops being absence and becomes evidence. Now Rachel understands that her fear is not irrational; it is inherited, confirmed, and mirrored with brutal precision. The cost of disbelief has a face. It belongs to her mother. Failure here is not death. It is dying without anyone having believed her first.
Episode 5
I Think You Just Saved My Life
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 40 mins
Rachel and Nicky's romantic origin story is the talk of the rehearsal dinner - until they're forced to make a few revisions.
Episode 6
Last Night of Freedom
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 49 mins
The bachelors hunt and the bachelorettes gather, but the party's definitely over.
Episode 7
Something Living, Something Dead, Something Stolen, Something Red
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 41 mins
With the ceremony just an hour away, Rachel finds herself in serious need of a drink.
Episode 8
I Do
Thu, Mar 26, 2026 59 mins
Something very bad happens.