Why Victoria From Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen Looks So Familiar

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Netflix conscionable released a brand caller scary miniseries from nan creators of "Stranger Things." Created by Haley Z. Boston and produced by Matt and Ross Duffer, "Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen" offers a caller return connected nan in-laws-from-hell subgenre of horror. The show stars Camilla Morrone ("Daisy Jones & The Six") and Adam DiMarco (season 2 of "The White Lotus") arsenic Rachel and Nicky, an engaged mates who are visiting nan groom's family compartment successful upstate New York during nan dormant of winter. Unsurprisingly, their travel is filled pinch spooky incidents.

The in-laws are Boris (played by Ted Levine), and nan creepy Victoria. If you kept trying to fig retired why frail aged Victoria looks truthful acquainted while watching nan show, it's because she is played by nary different than Jennifer Jason Leigh, nan champion character ever.

"Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen" is portion psychological thriller, portion societal satire astir nan quality and authorities of relationships and making love successful 2026, and besides portion mystery. Oh, and location is besides talk of a legendary animal named The Sorry Man, who stalks nan woods surrounding nan cabin. This each helps to create an eerie ambiance that keeps you engaged pinch nan bid passim its eight-episode run, and mightiness operation immoderate conversations astir what it takes to prolong a relationship.

As Victoria, Jennifer Jason Leigh does a terrific occupation presenting an apparently idyllic matrimony that's intelligibly hiding immoderate acheronian secrets.

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The girl of actors Barbara Turner and Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Leigh began moving connected TV during nan '70s earlier getting her movie breakout domiciled successful nan 1982 teen movie "Fast Times astatine Ridgemont High." Her domiciled arsenic Stacy Hamilton is earthy and heartbreaking, and made Leigh a star. From there, she collaborated pinch immoderate genuinely legendary filmmakers — for illustration Paul Verhoeven connected "Flesh + Blood," Ron Howard connected "Backdraft," Robert Altman connected "Kansas City," and David Cronenberg connected "Existenz." Leigh often balances a nosy and lively capacity pinch perfectly miserable and depressing projects, for illustration "Synecdoche, New York" and "Anomalisa."

Despite moving for decades and doing unthinkable work, it wasn't until 2015 pinch "The Hateful Eight" that Leigh yet sewage nickname from nan Academy successful nan shape of a information for Best Supporting Actress. In that movie, Leigh played a condemned female pinch an oculus for violence, not excessively dissimilar from her awesome activity arsenic a hitwoman successful David Lynch's "Twin Peaks: The Return."

Indeed, Leigh has extended acquisition successful genre work, from scary to sci-fi and everything successful between. Her collaborations pinch both David and Brandon Cronenberg person been delightfully strange. On TV, Leigh has played successful nan supernatural mystery/thriller arena for decades, from her mini sound domiciled successful nan animated "Todd McFarlane's Spawn" to nan psychological play "Lisey's Story."

Now, you tin spot Jennifer Jason Leigh arsenic a spooky early mother-in-law successful Netflix's "Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen."