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Common Side Effects (2025) Review: Surrealist Science Fiction With Bite

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Scavengers Reign was, as the kids say, a cultural reset for genre expectations in the adult animation medium. Now, Joe Bennett is pushing the boundary again with Common Side Effects (2025). Airing on Adult Swim, the series follows what happens when a mysterious (and adorable) blue mushroom is discovered. Unlike the micro-dosing trend or the ones that give you a trippy story to tell a friend, this one cures. It cures everything. The half-hour ser…

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An original animated series from Joe Bennett and Steve Hely explores many themes pertinent to the psychedelic renaissance including the commercialisation of plants and fungi, the war on drugs, and ‘magic bullet’ treatments.One of the show’s main characters, Marshall, discovers a mushroom from the Peruvian Highlands that appears to be capable of healing nearly anything, but throughout the series he… Source

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