It is a sad day in my household. Yesterday, we were handed the news that Netflix zom-com Santa Clarita Diet had not been renewed by the streaming giant, and fans are forced to accept a major cliffhanger as the ending to the endearing show. I have been hurt by cancellations before; Firefly, while slightly before my time, was of course taken from us too early, as was Deadwood, Agent Carter, Constantine, and Freaks and Geeks. However, none have seemed to have hit me as hard as Santa Clarita Diet: a show that was both completely ridiculous, and ridiculously human.

Santa Clarita Diet ran for three seasons and featured an undead Drew Barrymore trying to reconcile her new lust for human flesh with her family life and job as a realtor. It featured a strange mixture of heavy laughs and over-the-top violence, yet it never felt out of place. Really, the show was lucky to be optioned in the first place; the concept is absolutely nuts, the humour subtle, and the number of bodily fluids that fly throughout the three seasons is quite substantial. After the cancellation, showrunner Victor Fresco and executive producer Tracy Katsky released a statement, thanking Netflix for taking a chance on such an odd property.