History Series / SantaClaritaDiet

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: [[spoiler: Lisa's adultery is portrayed sympathetically because her husband, Dan, is a jerk and the guy she was seeing behind his back turned out to be reasonably nice.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: According to Eric, Lisa has been cheating on Dan with a guy named Bob.

* {{Adorkable}}: Eric, and Abby when she tries to flirt. Key word being ''tries''.

* Irony: Meta Example. Ramona is said to be older than Eric and Abby. The actors who play them are 2 and 3 years older than her actress.

* BlackBestFriend: Joel and Rick.

As of April 2019, Netflix has effectively canceled the series after 3 seasons.

* BiTheWay:
** It's heavily implied that Lisa was sleeping with both Bob and Anne behind Dan's back. As of Season Two, Anne and Lisa are officially dating, so now it's much less {{ambiguous|lyBi}} (the word "bisexual" is even outright stated in the season two finale).
** Christa Caldwell smugly reveals a past sexual experience with a female customer she and her husband Chris are in competition over with the Hammonds.

** Joel and Sheila's attempts to discipline Abby tend to be stymied by this, as their parental authority has been completely undermined by their new hobby of murdering people.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Sheila, towards Abby, albeit usually accidentally. Lisa towards Eric as well
* AndIMustScream: Zig-zagged with [[spoiler:Gary. It turns out that he didn't actually die when Sheila ate him, spending several weeks buried as an undead severed head, and later is kept standing on a flower jar in Sheila's and Joel's basement. At first, [[DeathSeeker he wanted]] [[MercyKill to die]], but changed his mind because he wished to be there to see his niece and her daughter grow, later on he wanted to die again because he believed that his niece was doing just fine and there wasn't much to do as a severed head, but this time Sheila and Joel are unwilling to kill him.]]
* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Loki]] is this to Joel and Sheila.
-->'''[[spoiler:Loki]]''': Sorry, Joel, you seem like a nice man, but for Sheila to be free, she has to stop clinging to her past.

* AssholeVictim: Even the people Sheila kills impulsively have it coming in some way or another. Then there's [[spoiler:Dan, who Joel kills with a shovel after being blackmailed by him.]]

** As a result of being forced to kill people in order to eat (plus the fact that Joel is too squeamish to do it himself), Sheila herself qualifies
* SerialKillerKiller: It looked like Dan was setting them up to be this [[spoiler: until it was revealed that the drug dealer and killer Loki was blackmailing him and the human trafficker was just having an affair with his wife and really was a pediatrician, proving he just wanted his neighbours to do his dirty work for him.]]
* StarterVillain: [[spoiler: Gary]].
* StylisticSuck: Eric’s documentary regarding Dr. Wolf employs heavy use of stock footage, makes wild assumptions based on little evidence and has an ending that is insensitive in-universe and utilises an amateurish effect to make Sheila’s eyes red.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Like mother, like daughter, this is Abby and Sheila's go-to if they need a quick way to punctuate an unpleasant interaction.
-->'''Abby:''' Put your pants on, ''bitch'', 'cause you're coming out!

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:After spending several weeks as an undead severed head in a shallow grave, Gary thought about what he had done when he was alive, and his first act after being dug up is to ask Sheila and Joel to give a house in his possession to his niece, the only person he cared about in life. After that, he started living in the Hammonds' basement (and later in their storage unit), develops a friendship with Joel and Sheila, even comments that he became a better person.]]

-->'''Man:''' Put Raffi back on, he makes me happy!
-->'''Sheila:''' Yeah, he makes everybody happy, that's why he's a multi-generational success!
-->'''Man:''' You and your daughter's asses are a multi-generational success.
-->'''Sheila:''' Stop reducing us to only sexual beings!
-->'''Man:''' Ooh, keep talking, [[ADateWithRosiePalms I'm almost finished]].

* TheVirus: Sheila is turned undead by a mysterious pathogen that causes its victims to vomit to death, and immediately come back to "life" as a walking corpse. [[spoiler:It turns out she contracted it (along with two other people) as a foodborne illness, caused by eating infected clams in Japopo's restaurant, which originated from a lake in Serbia (the site of a medieval zombie outbreak). Furthermore, it can spread either by biting people or cross-contaminating their blood.]]
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Sheila when she's showing a house. It gets everywhere. [[spoiler:Also one of the first symptoms of the zombie infection.]]

* AscendedExtra: In the second season, Ramona (the girl that works in the supermarket) and [[spoiler: [[NotQuiteDead Gary]].]]

* BiTheWay: It's heavily implied that Lisa was sleeping with both Bob and Anne behind Dan's back. As of Season Two, Anne and Lisa are officially dating, so now it's much less {{ambiguous|lyBi}} (the word "bisexual" is even outright stated in the season two finale).

* BiTheWay: It's heavily implied that Lisa was sleeping with both Bob and Anne behind Dan's back. As of Season Two, Anne and Lisa are officially dating, so now it's much less {{ambiguous|lyBi}}. Christa Caldwell smugly reveals a past sexual experience with a female customer she and her husband Chris are in competition over with the Hammonds.

** Lisa isn't above drinking alcohol at 10 AM when she's stressed.

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: Sheila and Christa love to exchange these with one another, usually of a dark, sexual nature. It creates a hilarious dissonance, considering their perpetually-upbeat, all-smiles mannerisms.

* {{Adorkable}}: Eric, and Abby when she tries to flirt. Key word being ''tries''
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:The entire Season 1 arc is about the main characters going after a cure, shown in an old Serbian book, for Sheila's zombie condition. They find the "cure" in the very end, but it turns out that it will not make Sheila human again, just stop her body from rotting.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Aside from having an IQ of 172, Dr. Cora Wolf appears to have minor mood swings, lacks some social skills, prefers to use words like "act of passion" instead of "sex", cannot understand sarcasm and has no trouble piercing a woman's neck with a pen when there are other people watching.

* ClusterFBomb: As part of Sheila's transformation, she has no compunctions about swearing. The rest of the family starts to join in, for obvious reasons.
-->'''Sheila:''' I fucking ''love'' kites. In the fucking sky, amongst the fucking clouds...

* {{Fainting}}: Joel and Abby do this when they see Sheila's "blood", which has turned thick and almost black from decomposition.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in Season 1, Shelia wonders aloud how she contacted the virus, [[spoiler: asking 'Could it be those clams I had at Japopo's?']]. Season 2 reveals [[spoiler: that's actually what happened.]]

* {{Freudian Trio}}: Among the Hammonds.
** Id: Sheila. Like all zombies, she is driven by the desires she repressed while she was human.
** Ego: Abby. A snarky teenager with a heart of gold. Has a strong sense of justice, but not above using the unique circumstances she's in to justify her own less savory aspects.
** Superego: Joel. The most rational (if neurotic) person in the cast, who wants everything to go back to the "normal" life before the zombification.

--> '''Sheilla:''' You stole [[spoiler:tear gas from Dan]]?
--> '''Abby:''' Dad killed him and you ''ate'' him.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Joel and Abby do this with glasses of orange juice.

* MoralDissonance: When it's discovered that [[spoiler: Ramona]] is also undead and is attacking random joggers, the only issue made of this is that she might attract attention. When she decides to move to Seattle, everyone is fine with the implied spree of completely indiscriminate murders that she will carry out there presumably for years, decades, or even more, although she is encouraged to be more discrete about her kills. At no point does anyone try to convince her to adopt Joel and Sheila's philosophy of trying to kill only people they think deserve it.
** Very little is made of the fact that Gary effectively tried to rape Sheila, even by Sheila.

* ScaryBlackMan: Zig-zagged with [[spoiler:Loki. He's introduced as a gangster drug dealing serial killer, then is revealed to have turned a new leaf and became a musician who just wants to make music. ...Until he falls in love with Sheila and attempts to murder Joel so he can steal her.]]

* SerialKiller: Loki has committed at least four murders.
** At this point in the series, Sheila herself qualifies

* VegetarianVampire: Immediately subverted in the beginning. Joel ''tries'' to make Sheila eat animal meat in hopes of satisfying her [[HorrorHunger extreme carnivorous cravings]], but she will only bother to [[ImAHumanitarian eat human flesh]]. And it can't be cooked or too old, so it has to be raw and fairly fresh, making it necessary to find recently-deceased corpses (especially if they were killed just a few moments ago, the better they will taste).

On April 2019, Netflix has effectively canceled the series after 3 seasons.

* AcceptableTargets: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Sheila and Joel. When they realize that they have no choice but to kill people so the now-undead Sheila can [[IAmAHumanitarian eat]], they vow to only kill people who they consider bad and whom deserve it. Throughout the series, this includes felons, Nazis, dirty cops, and sexual predators.