History Series / SantaClaritaDiet

Shiela (Creator/DrewBarrymore) and Joel (Creator/TimothyOlyphant) are, by all measures, a happy couple and solid realtors, selling houses in the LA suburb of Santa Clarita. They have their small troubles, but their relationship is strong, and they're good parents to their daughter, Abby. And then Shiela vomits during a showing. She vomits ''a lot''. After recovering from her brief illness, Shiela notes some changes. She has no heartbeat. Her blood is clotted. And she has a taste for raw meat. She doesn't want to use the word "zombie," but...

Strangely, Shiela's fine with her undead state. It's pulled the cork on her repression, and she feels absolutely uninhibited, willing to live it up, make impulse purchases, and party like a rockstar. Unfortunately, that also means there's not much of a barrier when she wants to chow down on flesh. And eventually, the flesh of animals stops doing it for her. Joel, Shiela, and Abby are going to make this work, though. No matter how many people need to die...

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Sheila has no vital signs and craves the flesh of the living, but she retains her brains, isn't obviously cold, and isn't rotting.

* EvilCounterpart: Dan is essentially this to Rick. Both are the cops living next door whose only goal is simply to be Joel's friend, the only difference being that [[spoiler: unlike Rick, Dan is a DirtyCop who has no affection towards Joel.]]

Shiela (Drew Barrymore) and Joel (Timothy Olyphant) are, by all measures, a happy couple and solid realtors, selling houses in the LA suburb of Santa Clarita. They have their small troubles, but their relationship is strong, and they're good parents to their daughter, Abby. And then Shiela vomits during a showing. She vomits ''a lot''. After recovering from her brief illness, Shiela notes some changes. She has no heartbeat. Her blood is clotted. And she has a taste for raw meat. She doesn't want to use the word "zombie," but...

* GirlyManFaint: Joel does this when he sees Sheila's "blood"

* HighSchoolSweethearts: Joel and Sheila.

* SerialKillerKiller: Serial killers are included on Sheila's menu, though the only serial killer she has killed onscreen so far is [[spoiler: Loki]

* BigBadEnsemble: The first season's most prominent villains are [[spoiler: Joel and Sheila's neighbor, [[DirtyCop Dan Palmer]], who blackmails Joel after finding Gary's finger in his yard, and [[GangBanger Loki Hayes]], one of Sheila's would be victims who later becomes another zombie.]]

* StarterVillain: [[spoiler: Gary]]

* BigBadWannabe: Gary seems to be a major threat at first, [[spoiler: but he dies in the first episode and is Sheila's first victim.]]

* SecretKeeper: Eric, the Deputy's stepson, is brought in to help answer the family's questions about the undead.

Shiela (Drew Barrymore) and Joel (Timothy Olyphant) are, by all measures, a happy couple and solid realtors, selling houses in the LA suburb of Santa Clarita. They have their small troubles, but their relationship is strong, and they're good parents to their daughter Abby. And then Shiela vomits during a showing. She vomits ''a lot''. After recovering from her brief illness, Shiela notes some changes. She has no heartbeat. Her blood is clotted. And she has a taste for raw meat. She doesn't want to use the word "zombie," but...

This series contains examples of:

* ClusterFBomb: As part of Shiela's transformation, she has no compunctions about swearing. The rest of the family starts to join in, for obvious reasons.
* DisposingOfABody: Joel and Shiela slowly start to get better at this, though their attempts to get rid of Shiela's first victim are... sloppy.
* HorrorHunger: Shiela's hunger eventually shifts from raw beef to something... harder. Her second kill is ''very'' impulsive, and she notes that she was pretty much out of control when she ripped the man's throat out with her teeth.
* ILoveTheDead: Joel and Shiela's attempts to bribe a mortician into yielding up a John Doe's body first leaves him thinking they want the body for... ''other'' purposes.
* NosyNeighbor: Joel and Shiela have a Santa Monica PD cop next door and an LA Sheriff's Deputy in the ''other'' next door. It doesn't help their stress.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Shiela has no vital signs and craves the flesh of the living, but she retains her brains, isn't obviously cold, and isn't rotting.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Shiela and Joel eventually decide the only way they can live with each other is making sure absolute dickheads die to feed her hunger.
* SecretKeeper: Eric, the Deputy's stepson, is brought in to help answer the family's questions about the undead.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Shiela's transformation is ''messy.'' The first bout of vomiting comes out of nowhere and goes all over the carpet. Joel gets to then see the aftermath, which involves a bathroom just ''coated'' in the mess.

* SecretKeeper: Eric, the Deputy's stepson, is brought in to help answer the family's questions about the undead.

* DisposalOfABody: Joel and Shiela slowly start to get better at this, though their attempts to get rid of Shiela's first victim are... sloppy.