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Common Side Effects Season 2 Set for January 24th Debut on Adult Swim
The Peabody-winning animated thriller returns as Marshall and Frances flee the DEA, the government and a pharmaceutical giant.
- On Friday at New York Comic Con, Adult Swim announced that Common Side Effects Season 2 will premiere on Sunday, January 24, 2027, at 11 p.m. ET/PT, with episodes streaming the following day on HBO Max.
- Co-Creators Joe Bennett and Steve Hely return alongside executive producers Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, whose previous collaboration on King of the Hill informs the series following two friends who discover a mysterious, healing mushroom.
- Picking up shortly after the first season finale, fugitives Marshall Kuso and Frances Applewhite remain on the run from DEA Agent Harrington, who is determined to capture them after a disastrous raid hospitalized her partner, Agent Copano.
- The Peabody Award-winning series earned four Annie Awards and an Emmy nomination for its first season, with Adult Swim president Michael Ouweleen praising the show for "crafting a boundary-pushing and genre-defining piece of television."
- Bennett and Hely envision the series as an unfolding novel spanning 40 to 100 seasons, planning to explore deeper themes of psychedelics and memory within an expanded "memory palace" concept for future episodes.
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Common Side Effects Goes Full ‘Memory Palace’ in Season 2
The trippy second season of the Adult Swim’s ‘Common Side Effects’ isn’t going to give you any easy answers. “I’m a big believer in not holding the audience’s hand,” says co-creator Joe Bennett. “You don’t have to spell things out for them.”
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Adult Swim announces more Common Side Effects
Adult Swim is still suffering from some Common Side Effects, and they’re excited to share them with you. Announced earlier today at New York Comic-Con, Common Side Effects returns to HBO Max next January. Created by Joe Bennett and Steve Hely, the series was executive produced by King Of The Hill creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, and the first season maintained that show’s dry sense of humor. The new season returns almost two years after it…
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