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Spoilers follow forCommon Side Effectsthrough the ninth and penultimate season-one episode, Cliffs Edge.
Were already living in the world ofCommon Side Effects.
Heres a gag about Marshalls tendency to wear an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and bare his tummy to the world.
Heres a villain getting blown up by a land mine and their body being fed to pigs.
The iridescent blue mushroom Marshall found subverts death, but it has also inspired murder after murder.
ButCommon Side Effectsgenerates tension by complicating our assumptions about who would agree with Marshalls keep-the-shrooms-free ideology and who wouldnt.
We dont worry about the down-there problems.
And, hey, a strictly burn-it-down approach can bevery funin its refusal to compromise!
