{"id":1522,"date":"2016-12-02T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2016-12-02T18:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:39:55","slug":"netflix-announces-launch-date-for-santa-clarita-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/netflix-announces-launch-date-for-santa-clarita-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Announces Launch Date for Santa Clarita Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1523 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07500.jpg\" alt=\"bbott-07500\" width=\"550\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07500.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bbott-07500-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>In <em>Santa Clarita Diet<\/em>, Joel (Timothy Olyphant, Justified) and Sheila (Drew Barrymore, Blended) are husband and wife realtors leading vaguely discontented lives in the L.A. suburb of Santa Clarita with their teenaged daughter Abby (Liv Hewson), until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending their lives down a road of death and destruction&#8230; but in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>[countdown id=&#8221;1480721919&#8243; format=&#8221;dHMS&#8221; serverSync=&#8221;true&#8221; alwaysExpire=&#8221;false&#8221; compact=&#8221;false&#8221; tickInterval=&#8221;1&#8243; counter=&#8221;until&#8221; template=&#8221;default&#8221; until=&#8221;02,3,2017,20,00&#8243; labels=&#8221;Years,Months,Weeks,Days,Hours,Minutes,Seconds&#8221; labels1=&#8221;Year,Month,Week,Day,Hour,Minute,Second&#8221; compactLabels=&#8221;y,m,w,d&#8221;]<br \/>\nThe Netflix original series premieres worldwide on Friday, February 3, 2017 only on Netflix.<\/p><div id=\"morty-800903712\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async 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