What if you discovered a mushroom to heal any? That’s the basic question behind Mature swingof Common effectsA new series from co-creators Joe Bennett (Reigning the monster) and Steve Hely (Veep, The Office, 30 Rock) –And the answer brought many troubles to Marshall’s life, the eccentric genius stumbled with the miracle of fungus.

With the help of Frances, his former high school lab – hesitant to tell him that he has worked for the CEO of a large drug company with his pet turtle and ran away from all feeling threatened by his medical. Breakthrough, which has become many deep pockets, well-armed, wild people.

To find out more about the series, Io9 has a chance to talk to Bennett and Hely ahead Common effects‘February 2 debut in Adult Swim.

Cheryl Eddy, IO9: One of Common effects‘The big themes are to make health care companies with accountability – something that has taken the new meaning during post-Luigi Mangione. How do you feel about the new performance culture context?

Steve’s location: Well, it’s a bit shocking. That event is very sad, of course. But it says we touched a nervous thing that people think and discussed, and it strengthened the imaginations and beliefs of people. We definitely think about something publicly aware, or unconscious, and that is exciting – and somewhat frightening, if it is broken by active streen violence. But I think it’s cool we hit something feeling relevant.

io9: Marshall is an unusual hero. What notified his backstory and his appearance?

Joe Bennett: He is based on a large bag of different characters. Paul Stamets are available, a mycologist – many of the men who are different from the world, Terence McKenna and Richard Schultz and Wade Davis and all things. But also in Marshall’s visuality and many personality from John Lareche from (Orchid thief book) and adaptationI am very careful at Chris Cooper version. It was a man who was a bit nobody, a little palping, very confident, very wise. He regularly represents himself in court. She is a kind of a badass in her own way, but not just your traditional hero, strong guy-looking behavior. I love Marshall a Pacifist. He has its own philosophies or ideologies that he knows little in the minority.

Place: Thinking for himself and getting ready to follow a thread as far as he carries, even if it brings him to disagreement with some powerful forces.

Io9: Do you think that’s why Frances are interested in helping him?

Place: I think whoever is as passionate and that independently and that enthusiast is always compulsive, even if it is a little odd and scary sometimes. And then Frances fights what his place in this world is and what he really believes. We think of a highly human nature and true of himself, and try not to be poor and have enough money to live, which is hard to live. That brought him to work for this company he was not sure, and his beliefs were questioned. It seems so exciting for a little relationship and a story that expands as we continue to say it.

Io9: There are many villains in performance-makers drugs, insurance companies, shaded government operatives. What do you think the top of the pyramid in terms of worst?

Place: We often think about it like-no villain. It is more than the system. Even (CEO of the drug company) Rick or the murderers, we often attempted to show a little bit of their humanity and where they came from. They are only people caught in a system that we don’t have to control. Later in the series, we have some black characters that give their point of view, and we have always tried to make it like, “Okay, you can see it from,” and to do it . Everyone is inspired by the way where they are not like, “Haha, I am the evil, villain with profit!” They have some way to see the world justifiable for them, and they feel they act from a sight of importance.

We talk to all kinds of people who are different views. We talk to a retired DEA agent and we talk to pharmacist people. You know, people who work in a large pharma company can make their case with, “Yes, it costs a lot of money because we need that money for research and development. And We have been paying because we have the next invention. And aren’t you happy we have Advil and Penicillin and Covid Vaccines and others? ” You can see it from their perspective. We try to make any person a voldemort or anything, but will make it multi-dimensional.

Io9: I didn’t include DEA agents on the villains list because you know they can do their moral compasses instructing in the right direction. They are also extremely unique – why do you want to trust them as a comic comfort?

Place: Many of that job is, you are sitting there waiting or staking somewhere. And for us as people at work always talk about everything except for work and life.

Bennett: We make an early animation test before we have any actors attached to the show, and we just want to try to understand the relationship with (DEA agents) without any characters saying . So I’m animate with them with them dancing at Harry Belafonte, and I think in many ways helped give us an idea of ​​what they were.

But yes, at Steve’s point, we talked a lot about it if we thought about the characters and how they talked to each other. If Steve and I will hike, we’re probably talking about anything and all but the actual hike itself. There’s a lot of time to kill. There are many subjects they reject or what. And then at the end of the day, they were real people. It’s their job, but they have their own wants and needs. We just try to make (them) more than one dimenure characters as possible.

io9: Adult Swim seems to be a unique outlet for a display like this – it has elements of humor and fantasy, and the elements of the Conspiracy-Thriller, but its themes may be more serious than our Turn with the platform. Why is this the right place for your performance?

Place: I think it’s just streaming to the max and then the adult swim is excited about it. And we’re excited, like to be part of cool, 20- or 30-year legumes of strange movies, I love movies for a long time, but also, as well, as well, as well, as well, as well, as cool as What do they want, just as we don’t even have the meaning of the adult swim and have a serialized show to take a long time? Tones can be slightly lower at times. It’s exciting and fun they want to expand can mean adult swim.

Io9: How much truth is and how much fiction, if part of the existence of a mushroom can heal any disease?

Place: Many we do not know about mushrooms. The mushrooms are so odd, and I don’t think we started to understand what they did everything. There are some good to you or give you crazy visions, and some can kill you. Have some delicious. So it’s never crazy to have someone who can act like a stem cell therapist. I think nothing is near that, but it’s not so foolish to imagine something like that. CAN is available.

io9: i like the voice cast, even if it doesn’t have a lot of people i know right away, besides Mike Judge. Do you have some mental performers for characters?

Place: Some people know and work with Joe before or people we know. Dave (King), playing Marshall, he made a little acting, but he wasn’t an artist. We love Martha Kelly (playing at Harrington). (Joseph Lee Anderson), playing Copano, working with my wife in a show called Young stoneAnd we just believe that he is cool. And many people, we just snatched. Some of the voices were I and Joe. What we go is to make them real. For us, there is no great benefit from getting a famous person to make your animated voice. Wishing you any voice right for the corresponding character. … All of our teachings or governments are like, “do it, like, no acting.” It’s hard for pro actors, especially if they’re just a recording booth, get there. But I think we achieve that true, stumbling true kind of sense of voice action.

io9: this latter is for Joe-big we Reigning the monster Io9 fans and sadly it doesn’t get more times. How do you feel now where did it end, and is that a story you want to go back to?

Bennett: I feel good with it. It has a future. I don’t worry about it. I am so grateful that we need to make (a time), and that it has a cool fan base that it feels like it grows in the sun. And you know, doors can be opened. (They) often (have). I feel that (they) will continue to do that if I don’t just put the negatives. I tried to lower my head and blinders and just do some fun things. But yes, there is a lot of stories for sure.

Common effects Premiere in his first two stages Sunday, February 2 at 11:30 pm ET / PT in Adult Swim; Then, there is a new episode every Sunday all over 10-episode run. You can also stream with new stages on Monday Max.

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