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Big spoilers for season two of Santa Clarita Diet forward!
Santa Clarita Diet is formally again for season two, and in all honesty, the new episodes of Netflix’s zombie comedy far surpass the first season. They’re funnier, gorier, and have one thing that I did not even understand I used to be lacking: Nathan Fillion’s speaking, rotting, severed head.
That’s proper – Gary West, Fillion’s scumbag realtor character from season one, continues to be alive. Well . . . type of.
As a refresher, the first (and seemingly final) time we see Gary is in the pilot episode, “So Then a Bat or a Monkey,” when he aggressively makes an attempt to place the strikes on the recently-undead Sheila (Drew Barrymore). Despite her protests, he continues to assault her, which is when she decides he is the excellent candidate to be her subsequent meal. Sheila turns the tables on Gary by actually consuming him alive, and later she and husband Joel (Timothy Olyphant) head out to the desert to bury the tattered stays of his physique.
Fast ahead to season two, and realtor energy couple Joel and Sheila are given a high-profile improvement to promote. The solely drawback? The new houses are going to be constructed on the very same plot of land the place they buried Gary. They journey again on the market in the center of the night time to destroy the proof as soon as once more, the place they uncover a really chatty Gary, sans torso.
Gary begs Joel and Sheila to not put him out of his distress till they full his ultimate want: making certain his niece can stay a snug life. Of course, even after they try this, the couple can not help however preserve Gary round – he is loads nicer than he was once, and he is additionally the just one Joel can actually confide in about the zombie enterprise.
At the finish of the day, it is an unexpectedly unique gag that provides simply the correct quantity of zaniness to every episode. I do know I personally won’t ever tire of seeing Fillion’s disembodied head dole out knowledge whereas perched inside a vase. The resolution to deliver the Castle star’s character again from the useless was truly one of the issues that had each the forged and manufacturing group most excited for season two. When I sat down with Barrymore and Olyphant in February, they could not assist however gush over the campy twist.
“There’s a character [reintroduced] this year, and it was one of my favorite ideas,” Olyphant mentioned. “When [creator Victor Fresco] brought that up, because we had spoken a few months before we shot going over some of the things they were thinking, well, when he said that, I was like, ‘Stop! That has to happen. That’s genius.’ That character has a life throughout. It’s such an unexpected, wonderful character this year.”
Barrymore rapidly chimed in, noting that she was able to do absolutely anything to make Fillion’s return occur. “When Victor told it to me, I said I would give up my salary, and if the person says they’re unavailable or can’t do it, I’m gonna show up at their house and camp out until they agree.”
While it is secure to imagine Barrymore did not find yourself organising store on Fillion’s garden, I’m endlessly grateful the Santa Clarita Diet group was in a position to make it occur.
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