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Introducing the "Pet the Tortoise" Litmus Test:

If your show has time to let a character just sit and pet a tortoise for a scene--no matter how brief--it's a Good Show and you're well-paced. It's just a brief moment of pleasant comfort, it doesn't have to move the plot forward or provide crucial exposition, but it shows that you have both some time to spare in the story and you're letting your characters be Happy for a minute.

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Common side effects include referencing a b99 joke

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also side tangent from my other post but i do love all the difficult questions the show poses with the idea it brings: if there's a medicine that fixes everything; who gets it first? who is more "deserving" of it? do "bad people" deserve access to it? and these questions are brought up also to remind us that the main characters (and ppl irl) are flawed as well, like when marshall says if someone racist needs the medicine, do they give it to him? the answer is obviously that healthcare is a human right, and that you can't pick and choose who deserves basic human rights, but marshall is like. kinda white liberal ab it. and is so removed from the world around him that it's easy for him to forget that it would be real life humans his science is affecting. you see it in the show, how almost flippantly he treats life beacuse he has a way to "fix" any damage he causes (ie the pidgeon) he has big ideas about how to save the world with the blue angel mushroom but no real plans outside of "grow the mushroom"

meanwhile frances has ideas on how to get the mushroom to people, but she also sees the profit in it because she works for a pharmaceutical company and hasn't spent time criticizing how the healthcare industry works. she is someone who has had trouble with healthcare (ie her mother and dealing with insurance) but doesn't recognize where the problem lies, which is making healthcare a privilege by turning it profitable, making medicine a product. she's kinda a stand in for the average person who is harmed by the way the healthcare industry works, but hasn't thought critically about it because it's so normalized (idk if im making sense)

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love how everyone in common side effects feels like they're on breaking bad, except for copano and harrington, who feel like they're on the x files

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Socrates is the best part of this show.

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Press S to keep Socrates safe

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Common Side Effects 1.02 Lakeshore Limited

This is the Harrington and Coppano Show !!!

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Common Side Effects 1x01 | Jump In The Line - Harry Belafonte

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Every episode of common side effects has a part where you’re like “that was the coolest looking reflection I’ve ever seen in a cartoon, I didn’t know you could do that in animation” and then the very next episode there’s a cooler reflection

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I love how common side effects have some silly looking faces...

And then really beautiful nature

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thinking about this show so hard.

WATCH COMMON SIDE EFFECTS NOWWWW!!!

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Rushed drawing for Common Side Effects (might be low quality idk)

(Please watch this show. It's short, well animated, and has so much character and drama. Needs as many seasons as it can get.)

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I bring a "zionism is first and foremost a term and philosophy for jews that was co-opted by both sides of the political spectrum because they aren't allowed to say kike anymore" vibe to the function that frankly makes a lot of people uncomfortable

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me, lactose intolerant, prepping overnight oats for the next couple days: [pours oatmilk over my oats]

my brain immediately:

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig