‘Santa Clarita Diet’ is one of the best and smartest shows you’re missing

If you had told this reporter five years ago that one of her favorite TV shows in 2018 would be a suburban comedy about Drew Barrymore as a zombie, she’d order you a sobriety test. Yet Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet is the type of rare TV comfort food that hits home.

The show premiered in 2017 and tells the story of the Hammond family: Joel (Timothy Olyphant), Sheila (Barrymore) and their teenage daughter Abby (Liv Hewson). Joel and Sheila are a real estate power couple until something makes her so violently ill that she dies and becomes undead. Now they spend their days trying to satisfy her taste for human flesh while covering up the string of (somewhat) unintentional murders trailing behind them. Read more…

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