Series Review
Offbeat zombie comedy 'Santa Clarita Diet' will leave you hungry for more
This dark NetFlix comedy follows the adventures of a perfectly middle-class family who have to deal with the fallout after one of them turns into a zombie
Zombies get a bad rap. Every one you see on screen is some kind of mindless, sloughing predator with no plans beyond their next serving of human tartar.
The thing is, like other groups who are only portrayed stereotypically in film, the undead are a diverse bunch and finally we have a series to showcase that.
Set somewhere in suburban America, Santa Clarita Diet follows the lives of Sheila (Drew Barrymore) and Joel Hammond (Timothy Olyphant), a pair of perfectly beige realtors whose lives get drenched in crimson when Sheila becomes violently ill and turns into a zombie.
By zombie we don't mean the kind of gormless flesh sacks that waddle around the set of The Walking Dead. Sheila Hammond is a fully functioning member of the undead petite bourgeoisie replete with a moody teenager, an SUV and a collection of pantsuits. She just also happens to have an insatiable need to murder people and feast on their innards sans cutlery.
WATCH | The trailer for Santa Claire Diet..
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