In Santa Clarita Diet, Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction…but in a good way.

Picking up right where we left off, Season 2 of Santa Clarita Diet finds the Hammonds trying to adapt to Sheila’s now-advanced undead state — even though she’s desperately working to hold on to her suburban lifestyle and not be defined as just another monster. Unfortunately — while the family has become markedly better at murder — the number of missing people in Santa Clarita is starting to pile up and it’s no longer going unnoticed. Meanwhile, the Hammonds are chasing the source of the virus so they can stop it from spreading and save humanity — which seems important. Through it all, Sheila and Joel are grounded by their unconditional love for one another. Sure, being undead — or loving someone who is — isn’t always easy, but don’t all relationships have their challenges?

Santa Clarita Diet stars Drew Barrymore as Sheila Hammond, Timothy Olyphant as Joel Hammond, Liv Hewson as Abby Hammond and Skyler Gisondo as Eric Bemis. Joining the Season 1 cast are Joel McHale (Community), Maggie Lawson (Psych), Gerald McRaney (This Is Us) and Zachary Knighton (Happy Endings).

The series comes from showrunner Victor Fresco, Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Aaron Kaplan, Tracy Katsky, Chris Miller and Ember Truesdell are executive producers on the series. Nancy Juvonen is a producer.

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Santa Clarita Diet stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as a married realtor couple living in the suburbs of Santa Clarita. They live normal mundane lives, until Sheila (Barrymore) abruptly throws up all over the house they are showing and drops dead. But all is fine when she wakes up, except they find themselves with an interesting problem when she suddenly develops a taste for human flesh.

Luckily Sheila has a very supportive husband who helps his wife with her new diet of humans, and he even helps her with meals. Meanwhile the two are trying to juggle raising their teenage daughter (played by Liv Hewson), who seems surprisingly okay with her mother’s condition.

While Barrymore was nervous to play a mother with a sixteen-year-old daughter, she wasn’t entirely sure if she wanted to be part of the television show until she realised she could somewhat relate to her character.

“I realised I could really parallel my life with her,” says Barrymore. “I started the show and I was like, ‘Victor, I’ve gained 20 pounds and I’m going through hell in my personal life’. So we sort of made this plan of how Sheila would go from Cro-Magnon to erect human through the course of the show.”

Barrymore went on a strict but “very healthy” diet and lost the 20 pounds by the end of the series, although with all the blood and gore the show has, that may have even contributed to her success!

It seems an interesting concept, the use of zombification to essentially rejuvenate someone in their 40’s and Sheila’s new love of life may seem erratic at first to her husband, but it seems to recharge their relationship. But will the show have enough to sustain viewers and make it to a second season? We shall see.

The 10-episode series hits Netflix today.

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The new Netflix show follows Sheila, a suburban mother and realtor who develops the urge for humans after she dies.

Stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant.

Santa Clarita Diet hits Netflix on February 3rd.

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Netflix has released a new peek at another of their upcoming shows, Santa Clarita Diet.

Joel and Sheila are husband and wife realtors in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. The family live mostly normal lives until Sheila goes through a dramatic change, she dies.

The series stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant. The first season (13-episodes) of Santa Clarita Diet hits Netflix on February 3rd.

You can also check out the fun Santa Clarita Diet website, which teases more about the series.

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