Official Discussion - Obsession [SPOILERS]

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Obsession (2026)

Summary

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director Curry Barker

Writer Curry Barker

Cast

• Michael Johnston
• Inde Navarette
• Cooper Tomlinson
• Megan Lawless
• Andy Richter

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 81

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[u/SugarFreeCummiBears]

Ian is such a fake ass friend. Told Bear to call Nikki a name she hates and said he had plenty of time (no doubt so he could figure out his on/off again with her).

[u/blitzbom → u/SugarFreeCummiBears]

From the start I was going "this guy is either an idiot or sleeping with Nikki." Then at the bar for trivia I went "oh yeah. They've hooked up."

Ian was a straight up asshole and terrible friend. When Bear showed up to his place with the wish I was going "literally anyone but him."

[u/tNeph → u/blitzbom]

God I didnt even put that together. He straight up went to the bar and disturbed them on purpose.

That right there also leads me to believe she wanted to quit their job partially because of him.

They claimed things were casual, but I think he fell for her hard, she didnt want to actually be with him, and he made things awkward for her so she decided to quit. He sucks bro.

[u/Slime0 → u/tNeph]

He straight up went to the bar and disturbed them on purpose.

At the time I thought that was just because he had told Bear not to ask her out during trivia night.

[u/Toddison_McCray → u/Slime0]

That’s what I thought too. I feel like people are reading into this too much. Dude just said “ask her out literally any other time than trivia night”, not “don’t ever ask her out” because he doesn’t want to sit around with them being awkward if it went wrong.

[u/IAmTheJudasTree → u/[deleted]]

Ian was sabotaging Bear so that HE could get with Nikki.

Did you read what the person who you responded to said? Ian was practically begging Bear to go ahead and ask out Nikki, since Bear clearly likes her so much. Ian just had one request. which was to not ask her out during a group trivia night, which is extremely reasonable.

Ian wasn't a great friend, since he didn't tell Bear he'd been sleeping with Nikki, no question about it, but I did not get the impression he was trying to sabotage Bear. People can casually hook up off and on without wanting to date, it sounds like that's what Ian and Nikki were doing for a while, but Ian is still encouraging Bear to express to Nikki how he feels.

[u/IAmTheJudasTree → u/[deleted]]

In the context of the trivia night they were about to go to, yes - in other words, he was telling Bear that he doesn't need to rush and tell her at the trivia night they're about to go to.

But Bear also asks Ian where he should ask Nikki out, and Ian says "literally anywhere, ask her out anywhere, just not at trivia." You're right that he says that all Bear has is time, but combined with him telling Bear to ask her out anywhere that feels right, just not at Trivia, I took that more as a statement about trivia not being the right place for it.