# Netflix's Santa Clarita Diet **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955 "2017-02-04T02:11:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/1 "2017-02-04T02:11:56Z")
[Santa Clarita Diet](https://www.netflix.com/title/80095815) premiered on Netflix today. I’ve really been looking forward to this for awhile and just started episode. 🙂 The ads promoting the “diet” are downright hysterical. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/2 "2017-02-04T02:38:08Z")
Well the “horror-comedy” description is enough to tell me that this is not the show for me, but I have to admit that the episode titles are a thing of beauty.“So Then a Bat or a Monkey” “We Can’t Kill People!” “We Can Kill People” “The Farting Sex Tourist” “Man Eat Man” “Attention to Detail” “Strange or Just Inconsiderate?” “How Much Vomit?” “The Book!” “Baka, Bile and Baseball Bats” ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/3 "2017-02-04T04:56:35Z")
Well I’ve never been watched 5 episodes of anything on Netflix in a row before. 🆒 I’m definitely finishing this over the weekend. Technically they did succeed in killing him like Dan asked ;). ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/4 "2017-02-04T05:06:46Z")
Seen two episodes. Pretty funny thus far. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/5 "2017-02-05T03:27:43Z")
I watched all the episodes today. It was pretty cute. Easy to watch. Fun guest stars. I just feel like they could do better but I had just finished (and fallen in love with) the first two seasons of Schitt’s Creek so maybe that’s part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/6 "2017-02-05T04:15:13Z")
We just flew through like four or five tonight. I had a hard time figuring out what “type” of comedy it was at first. Dark, I know, but the writing didn’t seem consistent at first. It got better a couple eps in. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/7 "2017-02-05T04:45:55Z")
We just watched the first four episodes. I hadn’t heard anything about it except that it’s funny. OMG. I haven’t laughed that hard in awhile. I did not see any of that coming. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/8 "2017-02-06T03:47:38Z")
I just finished episode ten. I really hope this get’s a 2nd season, that was a nice cliffhanger. I like how they’re playing with how being undead works. Sheila has more in common with pop culture vampires than zombies, but it turns out she’s been slowly decaying all along. So the cure isn’t so much a cure as a maintenance drug, & Joel’s on a 5150 hold. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Pork-Chop_Express)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/9 "2017-02-06T10:39:43Z")
Is Timothy Olyphant funny in this? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/10 "2017-02-06T13:13:00Z")
Yes. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/11 "2017-02-06T15:09:21Z")
> [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](#): > > Is Timothy Olyphant funny in this? He steals the show, imo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Pork-Chop_Express)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/12 "2017-02-06T15:12:03Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > He steals the show, imo. Great. I knew he had comedic chops! Must catch the pilot tonight. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/13 "2017-02-06T18:09:06Z")
Timothy Olyphant is great. The teenage daughter is great. Drew Barrymore sometimes misses on her punchline delivery, but makes up for it when she blurts out profanity. I binged it all this weekend and liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/14 "2017-02-06T18:16:47Z")
We watched it Saturday and My Beloved, who doesn’t like gore and/or horror, enjoyed the whole season. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/15 "2017-02-06T18:28:42Z")
I’m 4 episodes in and love it. The comedy mixed with near comedically graphic violence is just a great combination. And the daughter makes the show… her teenagerness is perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/16 "2017-02-06T18:31:51Z")
“YOU are!” ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/17 "2017-02-06T20:18:07Z")
Timothy Olyphant was hilarious as the “traumatized guy who’s just barely holding it together” type. Also, this part early in the show cracked me up: [spoiler](They are in the desert, covered in blood, burying a dismembered body, when suddenly a car pulls up and blinds them with headlights) Joel: Okay, we say we came across this murder site and we’re just cleaning it up. Sheila: Who cleans up murder sites? Joel: I don’t know, Mormons? Sheila: Mormons don’t clean up murder sites. Joel: Mormons are helpful! [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/18 "2017-02-08T16:48:28Z")
I binge watched the whole season last night and LOVED it! Can’t wait for the next season! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/19 "2017-02-08T16:55:14Z")
As impulsive as the daughter was, at first I thought she was infected too, and maybe the reason her mother got that way. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955/20 "2017-02-09T03:17:23Z")
I agree that Timothy O. is great in this. I have a feeling that his character is _this_ close to turning to the camera and winking at us. Like he wants to say, “Yeah, this whole thing is totally FUBAR, but what are you gonna do?” I loved his line when the cop neighbor asks him about the “ant spray” he was using in the middle of the night–_“I don’t know…Ants away? Ants be gone? Fuck you, ants?”_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflixs-santa-clarita-diet/778955.md?page=2)