“If anyone takes psilocybin mushrooms, there’s always a feeling of another presence there, or something watching you,” explains co-creator Joe Bennett. “It’s neither good nor evil; it’s just there, and there’s some kind of balance.” Photo: Adult Swim Spoilers follow for the first season of Common Side Effects through finale episode “Raid,” which premiered on…
You don’t often see animated thrillers, much less animated comedic thrillers. So the new Adult Swim series Common Side Effects seems to have that genre more or less to itself. There are some big names associated with this series that puts a bright spotlight on Big Pharma and our healthcare system in the U.S., and…
“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 clickbait to, probably, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the not-too-distant future. But no, really: What if?…
