Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects Gets a Promising First Trailer

Earlier this year, Netflix done went and pulled the plug on Scavengers Reign, one of 2023’s champion shows that was primitively connected Adult Swim. The bully quality is, that show’s accumulation institution Green Street has a caller bid coming adjacent twelvemonth called Common Side Effects, and it looks each spot arsenic visually stunning as Scavengers did.

Created by Scavengers co-creator Joe Bennett and Veep’s Steve Hely, Common Side Effects focuses connected Marshall (Dave King) and Frances (Emily Pendergast), a brace of erstwhile precocious schoolhouse labmates who observe a mushroom susceptible of healing astir immoderate disease. That benignant of occurrence cause would beryllium an astonishing find successful existent life, truthful it’s nary astonishment erstwhile a clump of funny parties amusement up looking to instrumentality it from Marshall, including phamaceutical corporations hoping to marque immoderate large bucks disconnected of it. As helium goes connected the tally to effort distributing it to the escaped world, Frances finds herself wondering if it’d beryllium amended to merchantability the mushroom to assistance her unafraid a promotion.

With past week’s astonishment sidesplitting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the show’s adjacent much topical than it already was: arsenic Marshall points retired successful the trailer, radical walk truthful overmuch wealth for medicine that hardly seems to enactment (if astatine all), and corporations marque tons of wealth disconnected everyone’s sickness. Whatever commentary Common Side Effects provides astir the United States healthcare system, it’ll besides person the visuals to backmost it up. Scavengers Reign garnered acclaim for its Moebius-inspired creation and atmosphere, and this looks to person a likewise eerie vibe. It isn’t conscionable the show of small grey creatures watching radical dice successful an detonation of colors, it’s the much mundane elements, similar however it shows radical looking truthful exhausted and worn down, some successful and retired of the hospital.

So colour america funny for Common Side Effects to deed Adult Swim and Max connected February 2, 2025—but if you request much convincing, there’s a six-minute preview down below.

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