Review: “General side effects” are fungus and them.

Bacteria have the best reputation on television, from The Last of US to commercials on athlete's feet. But what if it could save everyone?

“General side effects” suggest that no one is happy, a terrible and interesting animation thriller that starts with adult swimming on Sunday.

Unusual environmental protectionist and self -employed scientists, Marshall Fucking (Dave King), discover a rare mushroom on an expedition to Peru. A fungus, a ghost -like specimen called a blue angel, can cure almost all the illnesses and heal a seemingly fatal injury.

Returning to the state pursued by the Drug Executive Bureau and other more mysterious people, Marshall, who is currently working unfortunately in the drug giant, Francis Apple White (Emily I meet Pendal Gust). At the same time, they bring the magic mushrooms to people and create an agreement to protect them from the power to eliminate all traces of their existence.

Who are those units? they. And who are they? “Big Pharma, Insurance Company, Government,” Marshall explains. “People who make a lot of money after making us get sick.”

Marthall -like people -nerds, neckbields, remarkable belly hanging from his Hawaiian shirts, and one big theory that explains all of them are usually drawn on TV. At best, good intentions, laughing and expo. Even in a conspiracy of the X-Files, he will be the only shooter rather than a fox molder.

Put him in the context of the current event of 2025 -Popurist's pushback to the medical industry, the politics of “wellness” language, the strange bed fellows that re -make the United States again, and things are even more interesting It will be. Marshall literally conducts his own research and discovered that nature has kept the surprise that they are hiding from you.

The “common side effect” is seriously accepting him as a hero -although it is the spirit of an unusual action comedy -suggests that we are dealing with unusual specimens here.

This series was created by Steve Hely, which contains “Veep” and “The Office” in comedy credits, and Joseph Bennett, which contains the magnificent 2023 animation series “Scavengers Reign”, and this project and philosophical. And share aesthetic DNA. “Government” was performed on an alien planet filled with hostile and merciful plants rendered in the image of an acidic trip. “Common side effects” brings this psychedelic A Kei.

Producers include Greg Daniels and Mike Judge, who cooperated in King of the Hill. Judge -The Judge, who is the highest executive officer of TETCHY and PUT UPON, seems to be a strange match for the story at first glance. His comedy is often pleased with the hippies of Marshall stripes, such as “Biebis and Bat Head”, “Good Family”, and “Knowledge”.

But if you look more deeply about his work, you can see that you are prospering in a space between the cultural horseshoe ends where conservative and advanced anti -establishment converges. “IDIOCRACY” was a stupid American Bush Bush era in the United States that feed sports drinks and killed plants. “Silicon Valley” contained a push to build a distributed Internet that threatened major high -tech companies.

If anyone can find Venn diagrams for Luigi Mangione and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Americas, it may be this team.

As a conspiracy thriller, “common side effects” are obviously ordinary button mushrooms. In the four episodes screened for critics, the twist of the action is familiar, and the shadow -like members have not been developed.

It is the style and the voice of the dead bread that makes the series fascinating. The two DEA agents are a strange pair that may have come out of the 90s indie comedy, posted Copano (Josephe Leiderson) and Harrington (Martakery), the case of Marshall.

The pace of the story is relaxing and derailed in attractively. And art is shared with “Skavenger rule”. In particular, when rendering the function of blue, angel and bacteria that connects healing creatures at the cell level, it shares a mixed realism with a mysterious talent.

Probably the most refreshing is how “general side effects” convey the story of the ahead conspiracy without ironic or despair. As it progresses, the true heart of the series is not a marshall, but is pushed by the situation to compromise, but it may be Francis, a woman who wants to improve and better. is.

This seems to be a diagnosis of a whimsical series like this magic. You can see a system full of obstacles, but there are only a few true villains. Humanity is not a disease that eats the earth, but as an element of ecosystems that needs to be better consistent with the whole. It is often a society that is often ill and misplaced, but irreparable. There is a showom for improvement.