Netflix's Ads for Santa Clarita Diet Are Good Gross Fun, but One Went a Little Too Far

Severed fingers billboard is pulled in Germany

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Netflix has been making viewers do a double-take with its Santa Clarita Diet ads since the Golden Globe Awards, when Drew Barrymore’s cannibalistic take on weight-loss commercials was a disturbing standout among the TV commercials on that night’s broadcast.

The digital and out-of-home ads have been fun, too, featuring various body parts dressed up as food dishes. You have your heart burger (headline: “Eat your heart out”), your french-fry container stuffed with fingers (“Finger food”) and your forearm burrito (“Grab and go”), along with a few other executions.

But

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