Obsessed with ‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’? Try these shows next
Obsessed with ‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’? Try these shows next
All of these double down on the paranoia, pressure, and slow-burn horror that made ‘Something Very Bad’ so good.
“Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen” dropped all eight episodes on Netflix recently, which means there’s a very real chance you tore through it fast. It’s built like a countdown, the tension keeps tightening, and once you’re inside Rachel’s head, it’s hard to shake that feeling that something is off. What starts as normal wedding nerves turns into something way darker, where every conversation, every glance, every little ritual feels like it’s pointing toward a mistake you can’t undo.
And that’s the weird spot you’re left in after it ends. You don’t want a totally different kind of horror — you want that same slow, creeping dread. Something atmospheric. Something where the anxiety isn’t a normal symptom but a signal that something is very wrong. So here are a few shows that tap into different sides of what makes “Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen” work so well.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
A bride has a feeling that something horrifying will happen at her wedding — and the closer to the altar she gets, the worse it becomes.
Loved ‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’? Watch: ‘The Haunting of Hill House’
If what really got under your skin in “Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen” was that feeling of a home turning against you, “The Haunting of Hill House” is the closest match. The show follows a family dealing with the long-term fallout of growing up in a house that was never quite right, and it moves between past and present to show how that trauma sticks. It’s not built around jump scares — it’s built around memory, grief, and the idea that some places don’t let you go.
Where it lines up is in how both shows treat domestic space as the source of horror. In one, it’s a fiancé’s family home during wedding week. In the other, it’s a childhood house filled with unresolved trauma. Both shows use slow-burn dread, background details, and character perspective to make normal rooms feel unsafe. But the difference is scope. “Something Very Bad” is tight and focused on one relationship and one looming event, while “Hill House” spreads that dread across an entire family and timeline. It’s bigger, more layered, but it delivers that same “this place is evil, and I can’t escape it” feeling.
The Haunting of Hill House
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Check out: ‘Midnight Mass’
“Midnight Mass” takes that same slow dread and drops it into an isolated island community where everyone knows each other and no one can really leave. The story kicks off with the arrival of a new priest, and things start to shift fast — miracles happen, people change. And it becomes very clear that belief itself is becoming dangerous.
The overlap here is all about pressure and inevitability. Both shows trap their characters in closed systems where backing out isn’t really an option. In “Something Very Bad,” it’s wedding week and family expectations. In “Midnight Mass,” it’s religion and community. And both use that same “slow certainty” horror, where people talk themselves into decisions that feel wrong but also feel necessary.
Now, “Midnight Mass” goes bigger, leaning into faith, morality, and immortality, with long conversations that sit in those ideas. But the core feeling is identical: watching people knowingly walk toward something they shouldn’t.
Midnight Mass
The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Watch next: ‘Behind Her Eyes’
“Behind Her Eyes” starts off like a pretty grounded relationship thriller, but it wastes no time making things feel off. A single mom, Louise, starts an affair with her boss, David, then almost immediately forms an unexpected friendship with his wife, Adele, which is where the tension really kicks in.
The show builds unease through specific patterns. David is controlling in ways that feel subtle but constant. Adele is warm one second, then strangely distant the next. And Louise keeps getting pulled into situations that feel slightly staged, like she’s being guided without realizing it. There are recurring night terrors, lucid dreaming sequences, and moments where reality feels just unstable enough to question what’s actually happening.
This lines up almost perfectly with the emotional side of “Something Very Bad.” Both shows are about a woman feeling like intimacy is dangerous but moving forward anyway. The paranoia builds through small moments, strange behavior, and the sense that reality itself might not be stable.
Where it differs is in how it pays that off. “Behind Her Eyes” leans hard into twists, perception shifts, and dream logic, using surreal imagery and mind games to reframe everything. It’s less about sustained dread and more about disorientation. If “Something Very Bad” makes romance feel like a trap, this one turns it into a full-on puzzle.
Behind Her Eyes
A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.
Wildcard pick: ‘Brand New Cherry Flavor’
“Brand New Cherry Flavor” is where things get a lot stranger. It follows a filmmaker trying to make it in early ’90s Hollywood, but the story quickly turns into something way darker, with revenge, magic, and a steady escalation into full-on body horror. A fair warning on this one — it’s not subtle horror. This show is weird, visceral, and very intentional about making you uncomfortable.
The connection is still there, though. Both shows are about stepping into a system that looks promising and realizing it’s a trap. In one, it’s marriage and the idea of “the right person.” In the other, it’s ambition and creative success. The difference is how the horror shows up. “Something Very Bad” keeps things grounded in dread, tension, and psychological unease.
“Brand New Cherry Flavor” pushes into very specific body horror, where the cost of getting what you want starts showing up physically, along with surreal, almost dream-logic moments that make everything feel unstable. Now, I can handle body horror more than ghost stuff, so it’s not so bad for me, but just FYI, this goes to Level 11.
Brand New Cherry Flavor
A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ’90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge — and kittens.
More to watch after finishing ‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’:
‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ | Netflix
The Fall of the House of Usher
To secure their fortune — and future — two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.
‘A Murder at the End of the World’ | Hulu
A Murder at the End of the World
Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker Darby Hart and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use her skills to prove it was murder before the killer takes another life.
‘The Sinner’ | Netflix
The Sinner
In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
‘Archive 81’ | Netflix
Archive 81
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.