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Positive:
12
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
Screen RantMar 26, 2026
The Mercury NewsMar 26, 2026
Mar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
I can’t say I was ever once bored. The show excels at casting a spell through odd details, nasty red herrings, disturbing clues. And underlying them all is an unexpectedly sincere exploration of what true love can or should feel like, pitched right on the knife’s edge between sentimentality and cynicism.
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The TimesMar 26, 2026
The GuardianMar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The women’s obsession with the wedding dress, the atmosphere, the hints of unspeakable activities in the past rising up to greet us in the future have got me good. .... Morrone has an irreducible strength and spirit to her that lends the whole affair its needed credibility.
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Apr 2, 2026
Mar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
There’s plenty of dread-inducing fun to be had in the early episodes, despite their reliance on well-worn genre tropes. But Boston unveils the “very bad” something of the title surprisingly early, and the twist is altogether much sillier—and a bit more contrived—than what the show’s eerie opening stretch suggests.
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Mar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, I quite liked the show “Something Very Bad” becomes once Boston and her team put their cards on the table. But that show is different enough from the initial presentation, and takes long enough to reveal itself, that I’m not convinced “Something Very Bad” is best served by its chosen format.
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Mar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
The back half of the season is better overall. The ending isn’t revelatory, in the sense that it doesn’t quite complete Something’s thoughts on matrimony or family or inherited attitudes toward either, but it’s clever and kind of exhilarating. Characters like Nell and Jules gain some depth. There are a few well-executed twists among the many that are easy to anticipate. But those developments create new problems.
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The IndependentMar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
It’s hard to shake the feeling that this would have worked better as a feature film: the pacing drags, and some of the tortuous plotting feels as if it is simply stalling for time. More annoying still is the series’ aesthetic, which is frequently so dark and colour-washed that it’s hard to tell what you’re even looking at.
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Mar 26, 2026
Mar 26, 2026
Season 1 Review:
There’s a lot going on, including a spinning of wheels. It may not be “very bad,” I hasten to add, but the “something very bad” in “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen” is the pumping of 10 gallons of horror into a 5-gallon vehicle, which never really catches fire and whose wheels fall off.
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