‘Santa Clarita Diet’: Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant on the Show’s Complicated Tone, and Hitting Their Stride in Season 2

If you had a little bit of trouble understanding the tone of “Santa Clarita Diet” at the beginning of Season 1, Timothy Olyphant gets it.

“I think looking back to the first season, the first two, maybe three, episodes were a little rough,” he told IndieWire at a recent Netflix press event.

“I didn’t feel confident until we got to the fourth episode of last year.”But when it came to Season 2, he felt it was “smooth sailing right from the jump,” something his co-star Drew Barrymore agreed with — though she did have some issues with leaping back into the story of Sheila, whose hyper-normal suburban existence gets upended after some sort of curse turns her into a flesh-craving zombie.Specifically, coming back to a second season of a TV show was something Barrymore had never done before.“Coming back to a character I’d already played was a new experience for me,

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