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The undead of Santa Clarita Diet

TVUndead2010 to today

Santa Clarita Diet is a Netflix comedy about a suburban estate agent who becomes undead and must be kept supplied with people to eat. Its undead are fully themselves, only less inhibited. The series ran three seasons before its cancellation in 2019.12

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First appeared
2017
Released 2017
Source work
Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
Victor Fresco (Netflix)
Age rating
TV-MA
Made in
USA
What causes it
Other
Linked in the show to clams descended from four found in a Serbian cave; never fully confirmed.
How you become one
A bite from one of the undead appears to pass it on.
Intelligence
Clever
Weak spots
  • a serum made from Serbian bile halts their decline

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2017

Released 2017

field notes

What the sources say

1

The change begins with violent vomiting, after which there is no heartbeat12

2

They will eat only human flesh and become more impulsive12

3

Without treatment they deteriorate over time12

4

An old Serbian order of knights exists to stamp out such outbreaks12

5

Drew Barrymore plays the undead estate agent Sheila Hammond12

6

During the change the body produces a ball-shaped creature that later grows legs12

Sources

  1. Santa Clarita Diet - Wikipedia
  2. Santa Clarita Diet - Rotten Tomatoes

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