Magic Mushroom Animated Series ‘Common Side Effects’ Trailer #2

Magic Mushroom Animated Series ‘Common Side Effects’ Trailer #2

by Alex Billington
January 1, 2025
Source: YouTube

“Does this stuff even work? Is it just a trick? Where – even – are you?!” 🍄 Adult Swim has debuted a funky second trailer for the psychedelic & crazy new animated series called Common Side Effects, arriving for streaming in February 2025 in just one month. The series first premiered at the Annecy Film Festival and was also unveiled at SDCC last year – available to watch soon. It’s sort of a follow-up to incredible animated sci-fi series Scavengers Reign (on Netflix now) as one of the makers of that also helped co-create this. The show follows two high school friends, Marshall and Frances, who reconnect and discover a new kind of drug (“a rare mushroom”) that can allegedly cure all disease. BUt they also uncover a conspiracy involving big 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 as a shitty pharma CEO. This is a much better trailer than the other one last year – more hallucinogenic and fascinating and exciting. It’s all about taking down big pharma but – does this shroom really work? I’m curious to find out…

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

You can rewatch the other trailer for Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects series right here for more footage.

Common Side Effects follows former high school lab partners Marshall (Dave King) and Frances (Emily Pendergast) who begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare 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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