Undead and loving it
Coming soon to a device near you is the hotly anticipated second season of “Santa Clarita Diet”.
Top streaming service Netflix recently unveiled new about the cast as well as a first look at the series, which launches March 23.
The comedy is centred on Joel (Timothy Olyphant) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore) Hammond, a married couple working as realtors and leading vaguely discontented lives in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter Abby (Liv Hewson) – until Sheila goes through a dramatic change and begins a new diet of human flesh sending their lives down a road of death and destruction...but in a good way.
Picking up right where it 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 become 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. 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? Joel McHale and Maggie Lawson guest star as Chris and Christa, married realtors in Santa Clarita and a more successful, more aggressive version of Sheila and Joel.
Other new cast members includes Gerald McRaney as Ed Thune, a retired army colonel who Joel finds very intimidating. Zachary Knighton plays Paul, a relaxed descendent of Serbian ancestors who has been tasked with pursuing the truth of the undead, no matter who or what stands in his way.
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