News Obsession Obsession Director Wants an Anthology TV Series If He Can Explain a Major Plot Hole Curry Barker would love to helm an Obsession TV series, but there’s at least one annoying detail in the way By Matthew Byrd | Published on June 1, 2026 Screenshot: Focus Features Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Focus Features Obsession continues to shatter expectations and records, thanks largely to the kind of word-of-mouth buzz that modern movies rarely enjoy. Naturally, a fair bit of that talk now includes speculation about what Obsession director Curry Barker will do next. The director is reportedly receiving some big money offers for his next project, even though Barker himself seemingly isn’t sure what that next project will actually be. So far as an Obsession sequel or follow-up goes, though, Barker has said that he’s certainly considered the possibility. Specifically, he’s interested in an Obsession anthology TV series based on one of the film’s twists. “I obviously have a couple more things that I’m excited about next, but I do see Obsession 2, maybe,” Barker said in an interview with Total Film. “But what really is exciting to me is maybe an anthology. Like a one-hour episode [where] each episode is a different wish that goes completely off the rails. Maybe I’ll direct the pilot with the same DP, and then you could invite other filmmakers to kind of give their spin at it. That would be really cool.” That does sound pretty fantastic, though to be clear, Barker is not saying that there is any deal in place for such a project. One imagines he has the clout required to get the ball rolling on that idea, though, as the director notes, there are other ideas he seemingly wants to work on next. Besides, such a series would require Barker to figure out what he admits is a fairly notable plot hole in Obsession’s premise: the idea that the One Wish Willows actually work and make people’s wishes come true “It’s kind of a plot hole. It’s something I don’t like to think about too much because it totally doesn’t make sense,” Barker admits. “If there’s a world of people making wishes… it really doesn’t make sense at all.” As Barker explains, a world where everyone is having their wish granted (or at least multiple people) would result in crazy things such as “dragons.” Based on what we see, though, the world of Obsession is pretty normal. Barker then offered his own take on how that whole thing possibly works. “Every time someone makes a wish, they enter into an alternate reality where their wish comes true,” the director muses. “So you’re not experiencing everybody’s wish at the same time.” Hilariously, the director soon realizes that the explanation doesn’t make sense as we see another character’s wish for a billion dollars be granted in real-time. Given the creative potential of that series premise, though, perhaps it’s worth a bit of a hand-wave if it fulfills my wish for the next great horror anthology series.[end-mark] The post <i>Obsession</i> Director Wants an Anthology TV Series If He Can Explain a Major Plot Hole appeared first on Reactor.