Must Watch reviews: Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, The Burbs, Dear Killer Nannies, and Imperfect Women

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review ‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’, ‘The Burbs’, ‘Dear Killer Nannies’, and ‘Imperfect Women’.

What do the Must Watch reviewers make of them?

‘Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen’ is an eight‑part horror series starring Camila Morrone as a bride‑to‑be who has a growing sense that her wedding is about to be doomed. It is executive-produced by Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers.

Scott says that “it is a good watch, but not a Must Watch”.

“They build up the tension very well, so it is the small things such as picking at a nail and it revealing more blood or scenes that you may have seen many times before in many different shows.”

What Scott says is very impressive is “the way that it has been stylised, the way that it looks and the ways that it has been acted”.

Scott adds that “it felt a bit like a mishmash of other things I have seen, done well and put together rather than a really original story that makes me feel like I have to keep going”.

It’s not a Must Watch for Hayley either. Hayley feels that it’s all quite “generic”.

She says that “the characters are generic, the jump scares, the soundtrack, even the bride in a blood‑spattered wedding dress is a trope”.

“I was already bored by the end of the first episode because like Scott said, it is all about building tension but none of it was tense enough for me and there was not enough plot to keep me going.”

Hayley adds that “it crossed the line from tension to boredom”.

“I think it is too slow, it takes too long to get to its point.”

All episodes of ‘Something Very Bad is Going to Happen’ are available to watch on Netflix.

The Burbs is not the 1989 film starring Tom Hanks but a US remake starring Jack Whitehall and Keke Palmer. They star as Rob and Samira, a newly married couple who move to a street and live opposite a spooky house with a spooky neighbour.

Scott and Hayley both say it’s not a Must Watch.

Scott says that he is “confused exactly who it is aimed for”.

“I cannot really say anything good about it apart from that it is great to see the Desperate Housewives set being used.”

“Because it is filmed on the Desperate Housewives set, it just makes me want to watch Desperate Housewives because the characters are better.”

Scott believes that this could have been a film rather than a TV series.

Hayley found this show “painfully cringy”.

“It is lighter and less weird than the film was. The original had this kind of Beetlejuice shabbiness to it and this is more focused on one‑liners and mystery.”

Hayley says: “For me it veers way too far into cosiness for me. And you know how I feel about cosiness — I do not like it.”

“Whatever good there is in it comes from [Keke Palmer] and thankfully the husband is more in the background because he is so miscast, it’s distracting.”

Hayley adds that “it does not really make sense to remake this movie in the first place given what little success it had was riding on Tom Hanks and he is not going to be in it”.

All episodes of ‘The Burbs’ are available to watch on Sky and the streaming service NOW with episodes also airing on Sky Comedy.

Dear Killer Nannies tells the story of the downfall of Pablo Escobar and his drug cartel through the perspective of his son who was a kid back in the 1990s and 90s.

Scott says it’s a good watch, but not a Must Watch, adding that “some bits are really good, some bits are actually quite weak and quite skin deep”.

“I think the fact that you are seeing it through the perspective of his son who is shielded to a certain extent from his father’s activities… I found those themes really rather well done.”

“The acting is superb too.”

Scott thinks that “a lot of the narration is doing quite a bit of the heavy lifting”.

Hayley says that it’s not a Must Watch for her but she does like “the idea of it”.

“Nothing here will surprise you if you have seen Narcos or you know anything about Pablo Escobar, it is a new angle on a story we already know.”

Hayley thinks it is well-made but says that “it just did not go deep enough” for her.

“I want it to be more in the kid’s head.”

But she adds that “the performances are really good, especially the little kid”.

All episodes of ‘Dear Killer Nannies’ are available to watch on Disney+ now.

A psychological thriller starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara who play best friends. Their lives are shattered by a murder so their decade-long bond is tested when an investigation reveals betrayals and shocking truths.

Hayley and Scott both say that it’s not a Must Watch.

Scott says: “You have such little insight into their character and who they really are and then it is like boom, tragedy, everyone is really miserable and everyone is really really, really sad.”

“I kept going and I really did, but it never really took my interest.”

Scott thinks that it has got a great cast, but “it feels like it is falling into the Apple TV trap of spending a lot of money on it… and there is nothing to it”.

He adds that “it is very much an imperfect show”.

Hayley did not like it either.

She believes that this is “the most generic of all the glossy shows about rich women we have seen in the last few years”.

“You never sense that these women actually were friends for 25 years.”

Hayley says: “This is mostly a great cast making the best they can of a bad script. I think it is fine. It is not very deep. It is not very interesting.”

The first four episodes of ‘Imperfect Women’ are available to watch on Apple TV now with a new episode every Wednesday.

Listen to the full reviews of all four programmes on BBC Sounds.

But before all that, why not contact Scott and Hayley with the shows you’ve been loving, loathing or both on mustwatch@bbc.co.uk.

We used AI to transcribe and summarise our Must Watch feature. This article was then written and reviewed by a BBC journalist. More on how the BBC uses AI.