Santa Clarita Diet - The Farting Sex Tourist

Sheila has a new mantra of just following your dreams and instincts, as her id is just encouraging her to act as impulsively as possible, and her advice to others creates a lot of problems such as Rick buying a Range Rover while his wife, Alondra (Joy Osmanski), decides to follow Jon Legend on tour for a few weeks, as well as, Eric’s mom, Lisa, banging an oncologist she met later after a science project contest. The principal (Thomas Lennon) really has an antagonistic relationship with Sheila because he threatens to suspend her daughter, Abby while gushingly propping up Eric as a wunderkind she’s badly influencing. While Abby is considered an average student by Lennon’s Principal Novak, Sheila takes offense to his attitude about her, never giving any indication that he believes she’ll ever be anything significant like Eric. She wants to eat him, of course, while Joel, once again, must stay her primal nature which has no restraints unless he convinces her to combat that id and that impulsiveness.

My favorite scene, besides a nice father/daughter motorcycle ride to outside Santa Clarita near a bench under a lanai—okay, I’m a father with a sixteen-year old and we’re close so this is obvious a gimme—where they talk about Sheila, needing to get out a primal scream of What the Fuck!, has Sheila talking to Eric about how to control herself because the id is causing fractures in her family dynamic. Eric won’t relent in his belief that Sheila has no control despite how badly she appeals to him for answer he just doesn’t have. It is one of those dialogue share, rat-a-tat-tat, back-and-forth discussions that never falters even as Eric would love to give Sheila good news, but there just isn’t any available. Although it is clearly freeing to just live a life free of shackles, doing and saying what you want without a filter, and Sheila looks rejuvenated and alive, but this “lifestyle change” could cost her friendships, a marriage, and close daughter relationship. So Sheila’s got her work cut out for her. 

Hate that title although it refers comically to the principal when Sheila and Lisa poke fun at him during the science fair.

2.5/5