Special Mushroom Animated Series ‘Common Side Effects’ Main Trailer

Special Mushroom Animated Series ‘Common Side Effects’ Main Trailer

by Alex Billington
December 13, 2024
Source: YouTube

“Frances look around – does this look healthy to you?” Adult Swim has revealed the full official trailer for another funky, strange recent series called Common Side Effects, ready for streaming February 2025 in the New Year. The series first premiered at the Annecy Film Festival and was also unveiled at the San Diego Comic-Con this summer. It’s sort of a follow-up to brilliant animated sci-fi series Scavengers Reign (watch it on Netflix now) as one of the creators of that series also helped co-create this. The show follows two high school friends, Marshall and Frances, who reconnect and discover a recent kind of drug (“a rare mushroom”) that can allegedly cure all illnesses. In the process, they also uncover a conspiracy involving massive pharma and the government to suppress all knowledge of said drug. With the voices of Dave King, Emily Pendergast, Joseph Lee Anderson, Martha Kelly, and the legendary Mike Judge. My initial impression is they’re referring to psilocybin (hallucinogenic mushrooms) but it seems to be just a fun concept of a mushroom that can cure all diseases not just work on your mind only. Looks rad! And very psychedelic. I’m down to watch.

Here’s the full official trailer for Adult Swim’s animated series Common Side Effects, from YouTube:

Common Side Effects follows former high school lab partners Marshall (Dave King) and Frances (Emily Pendergast) who begin to unravel a conspiracy involving massive pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a uncommon mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases. Common Side Effects is an animated series created by animation filmmakers Joseph Bennett (creator & director on “Scavengers Reign”) and Steve Hely (comedy writer on “David Letterman”, “Veep”, amd “American Dad!”). It’s also written by Joseph Bennett & Steve Hely, along with Sean Buckelew & Dave King. Featuring episodes directed by Sean Buckelew and Joseph Bennett. Made by Bandera Entertainment and Green Street Pictures, with animation by Le Cube. Adult Swim will debut the Common Side Effects series streaming on Max + on Adult Swim starting on February 2nd, 2025 early next year. How does it look? Who wants to watch this?

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