Santa
Clarita Diet Season Two 9/10
There
will be spoilers. Santa Clarita Diet is so damned good! I was worried after
season one (click here to read that review) that the show would take
a while to return and by then wouldn't be as funny or it would drag.
Thankfully that was very much not the case. This season managed to be
better than the first and answer questions that the first created.
The same cast is back and they did not introduce a bunch of people
which I am thankful for because more people mean more questions and
you never know when a show will come back or if it will. By the way,
when this premiered I found out the day before and had no idea it was
even returning yet.
This
picks up right where season one left off. Sheila Hammond
played by Drew Barrymore is locked up in the basement because she is
turning feral. She even tries to gnaw the wood that she is chained
to. Their daughter Abby (Liv Hewson) and her friend Eric (Skyler
Gisondo) are trying to find a cure and need the bile from a specific
race. Abby is starting to get more violent and reckless which is
making her more popular but puts her future at school in danger. Joel
(Timothy Olyphant) is still trying his best to have a normal family
life while making sure his zombie wife does not get worse while
attempting to keep her fed.
One
character that I am happy got more screen time is Ramona the Rite-Aid
girl played by Ramona Young. In the first season she would always
have the right advice for the family when they needed it. She helps
out Eric and when we get a glimpse of her apartment there is a damned
body of a missing man in her fridge. After asking Eric out just when
they are about to have sex he finds another body in her shower and
instead of attacking him she has sex with him and explains her
situation to him and Abby who shows up ready to kill Ramona. She also
helps with the mystery of that weird ball that Sheila threw up right
when she was changing.
See,
Ramona's ball is alive and kept in a glass case. It has legs and
everything. Sheila has hers in the freezer. Joel tries to put
together when Sheila got sick and discovers that she and Ramona ate
at the same place the same day and tries to get receipts from the
place but a bad Yelp! review he wrote is keeping that from happening.
Joel manages to finally get the receipts and finds another person
that may or may not have eaten the same thing and may or may not be a
zombie as well.
Sheriff
Anne Garcia played by Natalie Morales is continuing the investigation
into these murders and disappearances while also dating Eric's mom
who is her murdered partners wife. I love their relationship. Garcia is getting way too close to solving the murders which puts her life in danger. The
mom, Lisa Palmer played by Mary Elizabeth Ellis is way into this new
bisexual relationship while Garcia is cool about it but will not go
down on Lisa until she is baptized. She overshares a lot of her
sexual exploits with her son and friends.
Oh,
Joel and Sheila are realtors and starting to do much better despite
some funny competition and find out that one of the spots they buried
one of their first bodies is going to be developed on and have to go
dig it up. They find Gary's head, played by Nathan Fillion, and he is
still alive. But just a head. He can talk and being buried in the
ground has given him a new lease on life. They also introduce this
group that is searching for zombies and it seemed like it was going
in a bad direction for a moment but they quickly remedied by concerns
by having them be funny and interesting as hell.
What I
love most about this show is that there is no super favorite
character. Everyone is fleshed out and has their own thing happening.
As much as Sheila and Joel drive this show I still get the feeling
that when the other people are not on screen that they have their own
interesting stories happening and I don't feel that way when I watch
every show. I know in the past that I said I hoped this wouldn't go
too many seasons but I think a solid four seasons with ten episodes
each (please no more than that) and I'll be good. I just don't want
this to wear out its welcome.
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