Horror History: SANTA CLARITA DIET Premiered on Netflix in 2017
Mike Sprague
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On this day in horror history, Santa Clarita Diet premiered on Netflix back in 2017.
Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant starred as married realtors. They are living a quiet life, raising their teenage daughter in Santa Clarita. Their world unexpectedly changes when Barrymore goes through a dramatic transformation. One that sends her down a road of death and destruction. But leaves her looking and feeling better than ever.
Barrymore and Olyphant also serve as executive producers, alongside showrunner and creator Victor Fresco (Better Off Ted).
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The third (and final?) season sports a 100% approval rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: Santa Clarita Diet’s third season is a generous meal of entrails, morbid humor, and a touching affirmation of marital love. With Barrymore and Olyphant’s pitch-perfect chemistry brightening each blood-soaked installment.
Creator Victor Fresco still wants a fourth season of the killer zombie comedy.
Fresco tells LADbible: “That’s something I think we all would want to do if everyone was available. Emotionally, everyone on the show would love to do some kind of closure. We thought it would be fun to do a season with Joel and Sheila in the same boat – what that would look like. I feel like this would be better for us and better for our fans too. There were online petitions. Hundreds of thousands of people signed. I felt bad because your job as a writer is to get people invested in your show emotionally. We did that and then the rug was pulled from under them.”
Fresco continues: “We had Abby and Eric’s relationship which was turning into something interesting at the end of the series. To see Abby now as a hunter of the undead since both her parents are now undead. Joel could have a different attitude [to Sheila], we would want him to be a little bit different in how he approaches things. It will be interesting to see him with that unleashed and what he turns into. So not just who he kills and how he kills but what kind of person he becomes.”
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