“What if there were a medicine that could heal almost anything? What if they didn’t want you to know about it?” So goes every health grift, preached by everyone from snake oil salesmen to chumbox ...

Common Side Effects follows Marshall and Frances, who were lab partners in high school and now share a secret: Marshall has “discovered the world’s greatest medicine, a mushroom that can heal almost ...

Common Side Effects is, to be very forthright, the best work of sociopolitical commentary since Sean Baker's masterpiece Red Rocket — still the defining Trump-era movie — and Jordan Peele's Nope.

The first two episodes of Common Side Effects air on Adult Swim at 11:30pm ET on Sunday, February 2 and stream on Max the following day. A show like Common Side Effects has the potential to redefine ...

When one starts watching Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects, it’s easy to feel confused about exactly what it is. Is it a comedy? A thriller? A drama? A sci-fi epic? A bizarre drug trip? After a while, ...

Mushroom fans rejoice. Adult Swim has ordered a second season of its animated hit Common Side Effects. This is happening just ahead of the finale of the first season, which airs this weekend. The plot ...

“Common Side Effects” says a lot about what ails us, from its pharmaceutical executive’s blasé attitude about his customers’ health to the devouring greed of those who would rather kill for money than ...

Common Side Effects has been such an oddity ever since it was first announced to be in the works. The initial reveal of the series noted some of the great television minds behind it bringing it to ...

Every so often, Adult Swim sneaks a show onto its lineup that feels like a fever dream you accidentally tuned into at 3 a.m. and “Common Side Effects” is exactly that — but in the best way possible. A ...

One of Rick Kruger’s first scenes in “Common Side Effects,” Adult Swim’s Emmy-nominated animated series about a magic mushroom that might heal the world, sees the CEO of Reutical Pharmaceuticals ...

Mike Judge and Greg Daniels executive produce the half-hour series about a rare mushroom with near-infinite healing properties, from creators Joe Bennett ('Scavengers Reign') and Steve Hely. By Angie ...