Post Binging Feminist Love Letter
Concerning "Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen"
This is such a good show in my opinion. So intelligent, so cognitively demanding of the viewer: it keeps you guessing, keeps you looking, makes you reflect danger and perspective (as opposed to conventional "horror" where everything is catered to you so you dont have to do any work at all - it´s insulting).
I love it, it´s feminist, it´s freeing: Rachel marries herself in the end and no matter where that road of immortality and being a ghostly witness herself takes her now: she is free, she has herself. Horror from a female perspective can be so powerful and even healing. We dont have enough of that in mainstream, but its so obvious: Who if not the marginalized and opressed can put into perspective and really convey where danger and fear lies. And simultaniosly, if the character gets to be lucky enough, it can also serve as an example, an inspiration, even instructions to free yourself too from what is keeping you small.
(Also being surprised by Victoria Pedretti´s appearance halfway through made me tear up with joy - I simply adore her work)
The ending - leaving behind what wasn´t right for you and marrying yourself, choosing yourself as witness and companion - rejects every conventional resolution horror offers women: rescue, sacrifice, domestication, or death. Immortality as liberation rather than curse is a genuinely subversive flip.
Shivers and Awe.