{"id":604168,"date":"2026-07-25T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/604168\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:06:19","slug":"we-got-a-first-look-at-common-side-effects-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/604168\/","title":{"rendered":"We Got a First Look at ‘Common Side Effects’ Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you missed Common Side Effects<\/a> when it aired last year, it\u2019s time to catch up with one of Adult Swim\u2019s best and most offbeat shows<\/a> in recent memory. Co-creators<\/a> Joe Bennett (whose art style<\/a> will be familiar to fans of the late, great Scavengers Reign<\/a>) and Steve Hely made a trippy thriller about a man who discovers a mushroom that can cure any ailment (including death), and the ensuing fallout as multiple parties fight over how to use and control that miraculous power.<\/p>\n

And soon, it\u2019s coming back for a second season, which Bennett, Hely, and cast members Martha Kelly (DEA Agent Harrington) and Joseph Lee Anderson (DEA Agent Copano) teased at the Common Side Effects panel this week at San Diego Comic-Con. \u201cEarly 2027\u201d is the newly announced release window, and the show was far enough along to share a couple of early glimpses with the audience.<\/p>\n

First up, we saw Harrington and Copano\u2019s first scene together in season two. In season one, the job partners (and besties) reluctantly parted ways. Harrington became determined to track down Marshall Cuso, the guy who discovered the \u201cBlue Angel\u201d mushroom, through law-enforcement channels; Copano struck out on his own, convinced that Marshall\u2019s mushroom had become entangled in a much larger conspiracy.<\/p>\n

At the very end of season one, Harrington figured out where Marshall and his partner-in-crime, Frances, were hiding out, and we saw her racing to find them. In this season two scene, we find out her version of what happened next.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s set in a diner, a few months after the season one finale. They\u2019re not expecting to run into each other, but it\u2019s a happy if guarded reunion. Harrington explains the DEA almost caught Marshall in Joshua Tree, but he got away, and she doesn\u2019t offer details.<\/p>\n

Copano, who was injured in a climactic season one shootout, has now fully recovered; he doesn\u2019t realize Harrington snuck into the hospital and fed him a mushroom while he was in a coma. But he has an idea that \u201csomebody gave me a mushroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

His near-death experience was a sobering one. He imagined his funeral (who knew he had two young kids?), and it\u2019s made him more determined about what to do next. \u201cI\u2019m going to find Marshall and try to help him,\u201d he tells his former partner. She says, \u201cI\u2019m going to do my job.\u201d But they don\u2019t part on bad terms; they interlace pinkies before leaving, and there is definitely hope of seeing them work as a team again.<\/p>\n

The second scene shown at San Diego Comic-Con was the season two cold open, which picks up with Marshall and Frances right where we left them in the desert, wondering what they should do next. They agree they should learn everything they can about the mushroom and get scientists involved too.<\/p>\n

But the optimistic moment is interrupted when Harrington zooms up on her motorcycle for the confrontation she described rather vaguely to Copano in their diner encounter. She draws her gun, and when Marshall asks how she found him, she says, \u201cYou\u2019re driving an ice cream truck, dummy!\u201d<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t really think Harrington is going to resort to violence, but she\u2019s determined to take Marshall in. The mushroom may have healing properties, but several people have now died trying to get their hands on it, and she thinks she\u2019s following the right path to restore order.<\/p>\n

But what she doesn\u2019t know is that Frances is sitting in the ice cream truck with Socrates\u2014Marshall\u2019s pet turtle\u2014and is able to start the engine and back up at just the right angle to knock Harrington over. Marshall jumps in, and they speed off; we get a sweet \u201con the run\u201d montage as they make their way north until reaching a \u201cWelcome to Oregon\u201d sign.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the panel, Bennett explained he\u2019s a big fan of the Coen Brothers and 1990s thrillers like The Fugitive, and Hely name-checked some other influences that Common Side Effects will draw upon in season two, including the Indiana Jones movies and National Treasure\u2014and films like The Social Network and The Insider.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t wait to see what happens next, and for more Socrates side-eye, when Common Side Effects season two returns to Adult Swim in 2027.<\/p>\n

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