Santa
Clarita Diet 8/10
I
watched the new Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet. Watched. Hell, I
plowed through it in about three days really. This show is good. If
you liked the first few seasons of Dexter or Dead Like Me or movies
like Shaun Of The Dead or Evil Dead this is right up your alley. Its
that kind of humor and super gore. I didn't know much about this show
but Cam mentioned something about the mom being a cannibal. There
will be some spoilers in this review. Seriously. Don't read reviews
if you're worried about spoilers. There are ten episodes and each one
is about 29 minutes long so it flies on by.
This
stars a couple named Joel and Sheila Hammond played by Timothy
Olyphant and Drew Barrymore. They are real estate agents that work as
a team. One day while showing a home to a couple Sheila vomits. This
is the most vomit I have ever seen. Just buckets of the shit. She
heads to the bathroom and there is more vomit all over the bathroom.
She ends up coughing up what looks like a ball of meat or something.
They head to the hospital but it takes too long and they leave.
Sheila starts wanting oral all the (women, am I right?) and shows her
husband and daughter Abby played by Liv Hewson that she can not bleed
and no heartbeat. Sheila tries to eat regular food and ends up
getting sick.
A new
guy shows up at her job and at their home and openly flirts with
Sheila. He ends up flirting with her at a bar and trying to get her
to sleep with him which she does and then he threatens to blackmail
her for more. She starts sucking on his fingers and then bites them
off. Joel comes home and finds her eating his ass alive. To make
matters worse their neighbors on each side are cops. One LASD and
another for the Santa Monica PD. They don't like each other. The
supporting cast and reoccurring characters on this show are really
good by the way. I like shows when someone or something seems like a
one off and then they return. There is one guy Sheila attacks and
when he comes back its pretty damned cool. Sheila and Joel decide
that they should start killing bad guys and that goes terribly pretty
fast.
This
show had some moments that made me actually crack up laughing. There
was more than one scene I had to rewind because I was laughing to
hard to hear what was said next. Most were provided by Olyphant and
Hewson the daughter. Like I said, the show is less than half an hour
each episode which works well. An hour each would be way too much for
a show like this. The reason I didn't rate this any higher is because
while her zombie mystery illness is not solved I can not see this
going past two seasons without it being resolved or more people
finding out and having to be killed. Still, this show was really
funny.
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