Santa Clarita Diet (2017)

Santa Clarita Diet (2017) is a darkly comic horror series about Sheila and Joel Hammond, a suburban real-estate couple whose ordinary lives in Santa Clarita, California, are upended when Sheila undergoes a mysterious transformation and develops an insatiable craving for human flesh. As Joel struggles to protect his wife, their teenage daughter Abby is drawn into the secret, and the family must cover up grisly crimes while navigating increasingly bizarre threats from outside forces. Watching the show you’ll get a fast-moving blend of black humor and gross-out horror: witty, often deadpan dialogue and domestic satire sit alongside surprisingly graphic practical gore and creative kills. The series balances shock value with warm family dynamics and moral quandaries — loyalty, marriage and parenting play out amid increasingly absurd, escalating complications. Expect quirky supporting characters, procedural-style episodes that feed a serialized mystery, and a tone that flips between sweetly domestic and gleefully macabre. Content note: frequent scenes of violence, blood, cannibalism and dark jokes. If you like horror-comedy that skewers suburban life while delivering both laughs and shocks, Santa Clarita Diet offers a bingeable, offbeat ride.

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson

Genres: Comedy, Horror

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