A comedy series that has aspects of horror and gore. It sounds like something I definitely would be interested in, and I was thrilled that it exists when I found out about it but then I watched a few episodes and was very disappointed.

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I'll be honest about this, one of the main reasons that I don't like this show is because I've had a chip on my shoulder with Drew Barrymore since E.T. and Firestarter- since those were the last films that she was in that her acting didn't annoy me slightly. Do you ever have that happen to you? There is a celebrated actor out there that everyone seems to love but for some reason you just dont? Well that's me with Drew Barrymore.

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The story behind Santa Clarita Diet is that Sheila Hammond (Barrymore) starts feeling really ill one day and then vomits a huge amount and briefly dies from a sickness. She comes back to but is no longer human and and craves raw meat - this eventually turns into her eating people in a truly gory fashion.

The entire story is told in a whimsical almost "Desperate Housewives" type way (they may have used the same set, because it certainly looks like they did) in that it is meant to be a comedy first, a drama second, and just to mix things up a bit of horror mixed in there as well.

A much younger Billy Bob Thornton, i mean Timothy Olyphant plays the husband role of Joel, who is not an undead cannibal like his wife but helps her out because he loves her and I feel as though their on-screen chemistry isn't really there. If someone out there likes this show I hope you don't take it personally but for me this show is a dud and I am surprised that it has made it 2 seasons (greenlighted for 3) already. I am bored of the premise after just 3 episodes and am putting on the brakes now.

On a scale of "urgh!" to "Wowsers!" I give the Santa Clarita Diet a rating of.....

a tad below "Meh!"

Name: Santa Clarita Diet (netflix series) - I don't like it
Item: Santa Clarita Diet
Author: @gooddream

Comments · 5

@bozz(83)· 2662d

Timothy Olyphant was awesome in Justified and I really liked his character in Die Hard 23 but I don't see him in this type of roll. I have a friend that started to get into this show, but I just never really did. I think if I wanted to spend my time digging into a show about cannibalism/zombieism, I would probably start to watch iZombie instead. I really don't feel like Drew has had a ton of great rolls since E.T. She was okay in Never Been Kissed and The Wedding Singer though. Charlies Angels... hard to say, I was focused on Lucy Liu.

@mydivathings(67)· 2662d

Thank god I stayed away from this then :) I am just about to hit stream on Love, death & Robots.

@sunsethunter(73)· 2662d

Ah... I personally can’t deal with comedy horror anymore. I just find them overdone and pushing to try to hard in all aspects. I haven’t seen this yet, but probably won’t. I still love horrors, but I’m finding it harder to find good ones and it’s the same with comedy’s! Maybe films are just a tad over saturated so it’s harder to be original!

@deadspace(74)· 2662d

Yeah, I tried to get into this with my fiancee since we both get a big fat hard on for horror stuff. I felt it was pretty mediocre overall after watching it, though my fiancee liked it a bit more than I. Timothy Olyphant and Nathon Fillion did a good job in it, but I was kinda in the same boat where I felt like Drew Barrymore was not the correct cast choice.

I've liked her in some stuff here and there, but I just think she fits in this as well as a flaccid penis does inside of a greased up motor engine.

@gniksivart(69)· 2662d

Yeah, that's all the further I made it before I turned it off as well. I'd be interested to hear from anyone that could make it through the entire season what thoughts they had on it.