5 TV Shows To Watch If You Like Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen

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After Ross and Matt Duffer, professionally known as the Duffer Brothers, wrapped up the massively successful run of "Stranger Things" on Netflix, another one of their projects premiered on the streamer ... but this time, the Duffer Brothers are merely executive producers. "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen" might be part of the duo's producing portfolio, but the show was created by Haley Z. Boston, who's worked on projects like "Brand New Cherry Flavor" and "Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities."

So what is "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen" about? In the pilot of this miniseries, we meet engaged couple Rachel and Nicky, played by Camila Morrone ("Daisy Jones & The Six") and Adam DiMarco (Season 2 of "The White Lotus") as they head to a remote cabin to celebrate their nuptials with Nicky's family, the Cunninghams. We learn, in the first first moments of that pilot, that the wedding goes severely awry — like, "blood coming from the elevators in 'The Shining'" level of awry — but how we get to that point involves a bunch of creepy stuff, like discarded Barbie shoes, taxidermied dogs, and strangers who interrogate Rachel about joining the Cunningham family. 

There are only eight episodes in this buzzy horror show, so when you're finished watching "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen," what should you check out next? From other Netflix horror hits to a series from one of the biggest horror directors in recent memory, here's what to watch after "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen."

When it comes to horror shows — especially ones that stream on Netflix — Mike Flanagan is one of the biggest names in the business, but one of his very best projects on the streamer tends to fly a little bit under the radar. Hopefully, fans of "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen" can change that by watching "Midnight Mass," a seven-episode miniseries that dropped on Netflix in 2021. After venture capitalist Riley Flynn ("Friday Night Lights" standout Zach Gilford) leaves prison — where he spent four years serving time after driving drunk and killing an innocent bystander — he makes the decision to return to his hometown, a small isolated hamlet called Crockett Island. When he arrives, he meets the island's newest resident, a priest named Father Paul Hill (Hamish Linklater, who actually plays a dual role in the series as the elderly Monsignor Pruitt, the religious leader Paul is there to replace). 

"Midnight Mass," like "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen," is a total slow-burn horror series that gives you a sense of creeping dread throughout its story. Add in some outstanding Flanagan regulars like his wife Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloyan, and Rahul Kohli, and you've got a phenomenal, short, and unbelievably creepy series that'll keep you captivated from beginning to end.

Another phenomenal series from Mike Flanagan, "The Fall of the House of Usher" brings back a bunch of people who also appear in "Midnight Mass" — and adapts a classic horror story for a new generation. Based loosely on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, this 2023 series introduces us to the Usher family patriarch Roderick — played in present day by Bruce Greenwood and in flashbacks by Zach Gilford — and his sister Madeline (Mary McDonnell and Willa Fitzgerald), who commit a bunch of dark acts (and outright crimes) after making a deal with Verna, a woman who may or may not be a demonic entity (played perfectly by Carla Gugino). 

Deals with potential demonic entities, as we've seen throughout pop culture, tend to have pretty long-lasting ramifications, and that's definitely the case for the Usher family. In that aforementioned present, Roderick's entitled children — including the eldest boy and heir Frederick (Henry Thomas), his first-born daughter Tamerlane (Samantha Sloyan), and a handful of illegitimate children including Napoleon "Leo" Usher and Camille L'Espanaye (Rahul Kohli and Kate Siegel) — find themselves unexpectedly affected by Roderick and Madeline's shady dealings in increasingly gruesome ways. Studded with Poe references (pretty much every main character's name comes from a work by Poe) and led by an exceptional cast, "The Fall of the House of Usher" offers the same sense of doom and gloom as "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen," and just as much family drama to boot.

From 2019 to 2023, legendary horror auteur M. Night Shyamalan took breaks from his work on the big screen to work on "Servant," a series he filmed on location in Philadelphia that stars "Harry Potter" veteran Rupert Grint, Toby Kebbell, Lauren Ambrose, and Nell Tiger Free. After Dorothy and Sean Turner (Ambrose and Kebbell), a wealthy couple living in the City of Brotherly Love, tragically lose their infant son, they seek an unconventional form of therapy and start co-parenting a doll ostensibly meant to take the place of the baby, Jericho. (This drastic and unsettling measure is only taken after Dorothy, suffering from severe grief, has a major mental health crisis.)

Things at the Turner house only get stranger and sadder when Leanne Greyson (Free), a nanny, shows up to "help" Dorothy take care of Jericho, only for the baby to, by all appearances, come "back to life." (Grint, throughout the series, plays Julian, Dorothy's younger brother who struggles with an addiction to alcohol but does his level best to be there for his sister.) "Servant" takes some truly wild twists and turns across 4 seasons and 40 episodes, so if you loved "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen" and want a much longer series to binge-watch, definitely try "Servant" on Apple TV.

Based on Sarah Pinborough's 2017 novel, the 2021 Netflix miniseries "Behind Her Eyes" seems like an unsettling but textbook domestic drama at first ... only to reveal a supernatural bent that will truly and completely shock you. When single mom Louisa Barnsley (Simona Brown) ends up having a torrid and illicit affair with her boss Dr. David Ferguson (Tom Bateman), she also ends up embroiled in the rocky marriage between David and his wife Adele (Eve Hewson, future star of "Bad Sisters" and "The Perfect Couple"). There's a lot of intrigue throughout "Behind Her Eyes," especially when Louisa learns about Rob Hoyle (Robert Aramayo), a former friend of David and Adele's who died under mysterious circumstances and who may or may not have harbored intense feelings for David.

We won't spoil the ending of "Behind Her Eyes" in this article, but to call it confusing is a massive understatement, and both the book and TV show undoubtedly left some viewers absolutely baffled. If you loved the mystery box elements of "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen," definitely try "Behind Her Eyes," and settle in for an absolutely bizarre ride.

A Taylor Swift-approved option that premiered on Amazon Prime Video in 2025, "The Girlfriend," adapted from the novel of the same name by Michelle Frances, casts "House of the Dragon" star Olivia Cooke as a woman who gets between an overprotective mother and her adult son. As Laura Sanderson, the high-society owner of an art gallery in London, Robin Wright is happily living her life with her husband Howard (Waleed Zuaiter) and comfortable with the knowledge that their son, Daniel (Laurie Davidson), probably won't ever settle down. When Daniel brings a woman named Cherry Lane (Cooke) home to meet Laura and Howard, Laura's hackles rise, especially when she catches the two of them in a compromising situation ... and as Cherry and Laura face off against each other to compete for Daniel's attention and affection, the situation grows more dangerous.

Like "Something Very Bad is Going to Happen," "The Girlfriend" takes domestic drama to new heights, throwing in increasingly lurid and strange twists and turns to keep the story going. Cooke and Wright admirably handle some of the show's most ridiculously heightened moments, and you'll definitely want to see how this over-the-top story ends.

"Something Very Bad is About to Happen" is streaming on Netflix now.