Start Your 2025 Media Regime Knowing that ‘Common Side Effects’ is Incredible

The title should speak for itself, but before I go off on what I promise is a completely relevant tangent, let me be very clear. The latest Adult Swim series, Common Side Effects, brought to you by Joe Bennett of Scavengers Reign (one of the best animated series on MAX and Netflix both foolishly didn’t review) and Steve Hely of Veep fame (a series that needs no introduction) and executively produced by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, who you recognize as the team behind King of the Hill, is really, really good. Within the first four episodes that were made available for review, it cemented itself as a brilliant piece of timely speculative fiction that had me utterly enthralled. And the modifier “timely” is super important, so it’s now time for that completely relevant tangent before I continue gushing about the series. My first job after I finished undergrad was in Healthcare Information Technology. You know what? It’s been eleven years. I’m a very easy person to find on the internet. I worked for Epic Healthcare Systems. If you need a primer on what exactly Epic is, may I offer the following curated short from Dr. Glaucomflecken.

The point stands, in order to work in the healthcare sector, you have to learn about how healthcare works. And oh my god! I can tell you that when I learned about surgical price markup tables in 2013 I changed as a person. Then when I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2020 and learned about the production co…