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Viewed: Seasons 1-3

I was never really interested in Santa Clarita Diet until I was finally coerced into watching it, a full year after the third season dropped and the show was summarily cancelled by Netflix. Although I deeply regret not getting into this show sooner, I am glad I had the freedom to binge all three seasons at my own pace, and not have to wait an entire year after each season finale's cliffhanger. Anyway, so why did I enjoy this show? It's sharply-written, the premise is creative, and the actors give it their all. Within the first episode, I was already rooting for Drew Barrymore's Sheila and Timothy Olyphant's Joel - they're such a believable couple with great chemistry, and it's so much fun to see them trying to circumvent the tricky world of killing people for food...but choosing their targets wisely, to avoid feeling like bad people. This is a funny series, and it carries the requisite polish that you'd expect for a Netflix show presented in 4K with High Dynamic Range (though the Mr. Ball Legs CGI is a bit squiffy at times). I also enjoy the expansion of the mythology with each season, expanding the scope beyond the Santa Clarita location. Plus, it's fun seeing Nathan Fillion return to play a severed head, and then when Fillion was no longer available to star in the show...they got his Firefly co-star Alan Tudyk to replace him. Zombies are all the rage now. So it's refreshing to see such a fun new take on zombies. P.S. Netflix can eat a dick for cancelling this.

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 12th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with nanites which reconstruct dead tissue and cells. Recalling memories of his past life, Ray is driven to take revenge on the man who killed him and his wife. Rating: 6.3/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 11th Via: 4K Blu-ray Plot: Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. Rating: 7.9/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 11th Via: Blu-ray Plot: A biopic about brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking, who continued his work and raised a family with his wife, Jane, after becoming afflicted with motor neurone disease. Rating: 7.6/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 9th Via: iTunes Store Plot: A resourceful lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 8th Via: iTunes Store Plot: When a lawyer afflicted with AIDS is fired ostensibly because of his condition, he hires a small time lawyer to represent him in a wrongful dismissal suit. Rating: 7.9/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 8th Via: Stan. Plot: After losing all of his money to gambling, a school teacher is stranded in a remote outback town full of immoral, violent locals. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 7th Via: iTunes Store Plot: After making a wish that he was big, a 12-year-old boy wakes up the next morning to find that he has grown into an adult. Leaving home, he takes a job at a toy company as he works to figure out how to change back into a kid. Rating: 7.8/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 6th Via: iTunes Store Plot: During a party to commemorate the opening of the world’s tallest skyscraper, faulty wiring causes a fire to break out which rapidly spreads, threatening the lives of everybody inside. Rating: 7.7/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: June 1st Via: Blu-ray Plot: A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money. Rating: 7.1/10

First Viewing Viewing Date: May 31st Via: Netflix Plot: After a violent epidemic tears Australia apart, a father searches for someone willing to protect his daughter. Rating: 7.2/10

Second Viewing (Revisit) Viewing Date: May 31st Via: 4K Blu-ray Plot: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. Rating: 8.2/10