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This article contains spoilers for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
In the finale of Netflix’s Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, there’s a beautiful, terrifying shot of bride-to-be Rachel (Camila Morrone) finally walking down the aisle to marry Nicky, the love of her life. Dressed in white and perfectly made up, Rachel believes she is either heading to “happily ever after” or her doom.
Though the show tells the story of Rachel trying to navigate her cursed bloodline, where tying the knot with the wrong person could kill her, it uses this wild concept to explore the lead-up to the wedding and Rachel’s struggle with whether she and Nicky should be getting hitched in the first place.
“The idea originated from my own fear of commitment and thinking about what it means to marry the right person,” creator Haley Z. Boston tells Den of Geek. “Do soulmates exist? A lot of questions I was grappling with.”
Boston describes herself as an anxious person who “sees the bad in everything” but cites the horror genre as a way to take these internal fears and externalize them. Thanks to the genre’s freedom, Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen isn’t afraid to ask difficult and dark questions about love and commitment in modern times, and Boston says she’s already received some surprising feedback from viewers. “I’ve been told that people have related to this show more than they expected,” she says, adding, “That’s an incredible thing to hear.”
Rachel eventually throws caution to the wind and tries to marry Nicky in earnest, but with so much of the series devoted to whether the couple will actually make it down the aisle, it may surprise you to learn that when Boston first wrote the story, it focused on an entirely different wedding.
“In the original version of the show, Rachel was going to Portia’s wedding, Nikki’s sister, and Rachel ended up having to get married by the end of the season,” Boston explains. “Then we decided to streamline it more and make it Rachel’s wedding. I didn’t initially choose that because I didn’t think Rachel was the kind of character who would have a wedding. That is part of her character, but then she succumbs to the pressure of being with someone who really values marriage. Right from the beginning, it’s already a compromise for her. It was just exciting to figure out her story as someone who’s kind of forced down the aisle.”
After Nicky backs out of the wedding, the self-centered Portia becomes one of the many victims of the curse instead, meeting her fate in the twisted, bloody finale, which ends with Rachel ditching Nicky as ‘We Will Not Be Lovers’ by The Waterboys plays. Boston says she heard the song about a doomed relationship right before she penned the final episode, and from that moment on, she knew it had to be the last needle drop.
“I wanted the show to end with Rachel driving away, mirroring the pilot,” she says. “It was important to me that she’s driving away alone. Not only do the lyrics really match what the show is doing, but they also have such an interesting tone. I wanted it to just really feel triumphant.”
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