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Common Side Effects

Common Side Effects

7.8

This conspiracy thriller is a genre-bending indictment against big pharma, manipulative insurance companies, and everything in between

TV Show

United States of America
English
Animation, Comedy
2025
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TLDR

Luigi Mangione, do I have a show for you.

What it's about

When Marshall (Dave King) finds an all-healing mushroom, he enlists the help of his high school friend Frances (Emily Pendergast) to escape powerful forces stopping him from publicizing his discovery.

The take

From the creators of Scavengers Reign and Veep comes Common Side Effects, a show that’s at once quirkily funny and chillingly relevant. It’s about Marshall, a fungi expert who finds a mushroom that heals all wounds and illnesses. As a result, he becomes a target of big pharma, insurance companies, and even government agencies, all of whom, according to Marshall, insist on keeping the mushroom from the public so they can continue to profit off people’s sickness. It sounds silly at first, like the kind of fearmongering, fact-less posts you roll your eyes at when they hit your timeline. And the show is silly, but in a different way. It has the absurdity and quirks that make adult cartoons so delightful, yes, but as a condemnation of capitalist exploitation and greed? It can’t be any sharper, especially now that medical costs are skyrocketing and the public are starting to fight back.

What stands out

I know, I know it’s just a cartoon…but what if such a drug really does exist???

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