Santa Clarita Diet estrella Timothy Olyphant admits first few episodes were "a little rough" 

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The Netflix comedy stars Drew Barrymore as Sheila Hammond, a Californian mother whose life is turned upside down when a mysterious illness makes her develop an appetite for eating people.

The second season of the show dropped on Netflix today (March 23) and, speaking ahead of its premiere, Olyphant – who plays Sheila\'s husband and business partner Joel – revealed his belief that the first season didn\'t come without its teething problems.

"I think looking back to the first season, the first two, maybe three, episodes were a little rough," he told

"I didn\'t feel confident until we got to the fourth episode of last year."

Thankfully, Olyphant believes the show eventually found its feet when the comedy/drama hybrid upped the drama element, and he is confident fans will be happy with what season two has in store.

"I think that we realised that the episodes [in] the middle of the season last year [were] when we felt like we really hit our stride," he added. "Where the stakes were extremely high.

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"And when the stakes were high, it felt like the show was really working. And so it felt like we just leaned into that a lot."

He added: "It\'s unusual to have a half-hour comedy with life and death stakes. And I think we found that, that\'s where we always wanted to be.

"It was at that place, when the stakes was high, when the water was up to our ears, that just felt like that\'s when we were having the most fun."

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