"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... //
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