Monday, April 2, 2018

The Review: Santa Clarita Diet Season 2



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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