The first hurdle of Something Very Bad is Going to Happen is living up to the bold, direct promise of its title. Thankfully, far from a slow-burn, the new miniseries from executive producers The Duffer Brothers (Stranger Things) is unrelenting as it moves from one “very bad” event to another. The result is a singularly daring, tonally ambitious spectacle that defies categorisation and demands your attention, delivering tenfold on the ominous declaration of the blood-red title card.

Dripping with hellish, wintry atmosphere, Haley Z. Boston’s nail-biting series follows a woman (Camila Morrone, The Night Manager) struck with an inexplicable, suffocating sense of doom just before getting married—only to discover she is dealing with something far more sinister than traditional wedding jitters. Due to tie the knot in five days, the hopelessly smitten Rachel and Nicky (Adam DiMarco, undertone) drive up to his family’s vacation home for the ceremony. Immediately, encountering dead foxes and a baby mysteriously locked in a car in the middle of nowhere, Rachel’s unexplained dread starts to grow, but it threatens to boil over when she meets the parents (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Single White Female, and Ted Levine, The Silence of the Lambs). Not to mention the rest of the enigmatic future in-laws, which include Nicky’s ditzy yet rude sister, Portia (Gus Birney, The Mist), his sharp ex/sister-in-law, Nell (Karla Crome, Lazarus), and his brother, Jules (Jeff Wilbusch, The Calling), who still struggles with a mysterious childhood trauma.