Team TudumWhen Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen reaches its last episode, it becomes obvious that it is not a show made up of jump scares and bloodshed, a typical horror series. At its essence, the ending revolves around a much more disturbing concept: what would happen should the person you are going to marry not be the one?
That is the question that creator Haley Z. Boston bases her story on, and by all appearances, it is striking closer to the heart than anticipated. Other viewers have even admitted that the ending made them re-evaluate their own relationships. It is no big wonder why.
Since beneath the supernatural laws and the more and more disorganized wedding, the series is actually one of doubt, and what befalls when you are unable to hush it.
The Curse, The Simple Version
The mythology dates back centuries. A bride, who is destroyed when her groom dies just before they are married, strikes a desperate bargain with Death. She gets him back, but at a price.
Henceforth, all the women in her family lineage will have to be married to their one true soulmate before sunset on their wedding day. Otherwise, she will die, gradually, bloody murder, inside. More problematic, the marriage does not occur at all, and the curse is transferred to the whole family of the fiancé.
It has a single vicious turn: it is not about truth. It’s about belief.
You need not be with your soulmate, you need to believe you are. No hesitation. No doubt.
And that’s where things fall apart.
Rachel and Nicky: Love vs. Doubt
Rachel (Camila Morrone) is already emotionally burdened during her wedding week family trauma, unresolved issues,s and increasing feelings that something is off. That discomfort is only heightened, as she hears about the curse.
At first, she tries to hold on to her relationship with Nicky (Adam DiMarco). She desires to believe in him. In love. In the belief that all will come well, provided she gives her all.
But Nicky is unraveling his way.
Having studied some unpleasant facts about his own family, he begins to doubt marriage itself. What was previously considered definite is now weak. And most importantly, he does not believe Rachel when she tells him about the curse.
It is that non-faith that is the breaking point.
It is not merely about survival anymore for Rachel. It has to do with being noticed, and Nicky does not notice her. Not fully. Not like she wants.
The Wedding that Goes Amiss
When the ceremony is about to take place, Rachel makes a decision. She rejects the notion of coercing to believe, even when presented with a possible shortcut. She instead walks down the aisle, wishing that it were enough.
It is nearly so, a moment.
But then Nicky pulls away.
He breaks the betrothal, believing that he is doing right. From his point of view, tradition is not important compared to honesty. On the part of Rachel, it is too late.
The marriage is not only off, but so is her faith.
And that sets off all.
Who Dies and Why?
After the activation of the curse, it proliferates in Nicky’s family of Nicky. Not all die, though.
The guidelines are specific. The curse will befall only those who:
- Are of blood Nicky
- Are married
- And surreptitiously suspect their partne,r their soulmate
People who really believe, even imperfectly, live.
All the rest start bleeding.
It is anarchic, bloody, and very symbolic. The horror isn’t random. It is directly connected to the truth of emotions. Uncertainty-based relationships simply cannot hold.
Rachel and her Destiny (And the Turn)
This is where the most unexpected twist of the show takes place, the ending of Rachel.
When it all falls apart, Nicky attempts to salvage it, rushing to be married too late, without being sure. It doesn’t work. Rachel no longer has faith in him.
She dies.
But that’s not the end.
Rather, she turns into the new Witness, an eternal observer who must go to all of the cursed weddings in the future. The rolevesteds in her since she left the curse to proliferate.
It is punishment, but it is something more.
Weirdly enough, it is freedom. No longer is she stuck in that relationship. No longer needs to demonstrate she does not believe. She enters a new life, lonely yet truthful.
What the Ending means
Superficially, the ending is concerning a fatal curse and a disastrous marriage. However, there is something much more common under it.
Doubt.
The show does not view doubt as a small blemish but something so strong that it can ruin lives, literally. Some things you cannot counterfeit. You cannot force yourself to believe that something is there which is not.
The tragedy of Rachel is not that she dies. It is because she discovers, at the very end, that she has to have love without understanding.
Nicky is concerned about her. However, he does not really know her. And in this world, such a distance is deadly.
A Personalized Horror Story
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is a unique movie in the way it is so earthy, though its premise is supernatural.
Take the curse away, and the tale will be all too familiar:
- Remaining in a relationship that you are not sure about
- Desire to expect something to work
- Coming to understand that the other person does not view you in the same way
It is not the blood or the deaths that are so horrifying. It is at the time when you know that you are creating a futureof uncertaintyy.
Final Take
In the end, there is no clean-cut conclusion in the story of Rachel. It doesn’t try to.
Rather, it leaves you with the question of:
Without faith in love, is it enough?
And therein lies the sticking point.
Since long after the credits have passed, that question does not seem fictional in the least.
