Santa Clarita Diet (2017)
A suburban realtor's sudden, gruesome cravings launch her family into a briskly absurd, darkly comic mystery.
They're ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
How intense is Santa Clarita Diet?
Santa Clarita Diet is mildly scary, with graphic gore and strong violence. Emotionally it carries some weight. The pace is brisk, and it is a full-attention watch and a late-night trip. The humor runs dark and absurdist. Rated TV-MA.
What Santa Clarita Diet feels like
- Tone
- darkly comiccampyabsurdist
- Pace
- Brisk
- Humor
- dark and satirical, absurdist
- Best for
- Full attentionLate night
Where to stream Santa Clarita Diet
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Is Santa Clarita Diet for you?
Is Santa Clarita Diet scary?
Only a little. Santa Clarita Diet has a few tense moments (scare level 1 of 3), nothing that follows you to bed.
Is Santa Clarita Diet gory or violent?
Graphic gore (2 of 3) and strong violence (2 of 3). If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
Is Santa Clarita Diet sad or heavy?
A little. There is some emotional weight (1 of 3), but it is not a heavy watch.
Is Santa Clarita Diet OK for kids?
It is rated TV-MA, so it is made for adults. Intensity: scare 1, gore 2, violence 2, each out of 3.
Where can I stream Santa Clarita Diet?
Santa Clarita Diet is streaming on Netflix.
Does Santa Clarita Diet have a happy ending? spoiler-safe answer
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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