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Through a chain of energizing and satire events, this animation series follows Clancy, a spacecaster makes interviews with creatures from other universes. Clancy enters a new experience at every episode.
1 February 1968, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 November 1951, Sarasota, Florida, USA
April 10, 1954 in San Francisco, California, USA
1 September 1952, Pasadena, California, USA
5 November 1958, Staten Island, New York, USA
June 21, 1947 in Brunswick, Georgia, USA
24 December 1970, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
11 December 1974, West Memphis, Arkansas, USA
4 September 1958, Pasadena, California, USA
3 September 1970, Port Hueneme, California, USA
April 6, 1931 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 March 1974, Rockford, Illinois, USA
April 20, 2020
The Midnight Gospel cuts into viewer psyche with what feels like immense precision. In nearly every scene, I found some visual I enjoyed, one sentence I related to, or a feeling I thought only I'd had - no matter how overwhelmed I became.
April 20, 2020
There is a lot of activity in the foreground, background and middle ground of the frame, and the series is worth watching twice just to take in the details.
April 20, 2020
Ultimately, this experiment with narrative and visual forms works, making The Midnight Gospel the rare piece of legitimately daring television available right now.
April 14, 2020
The Midnight Gospel" is overloaded with so many ideas it often threatens to devolve into one of those ephemeral late-night Adult Swim gambits... but Ward (who directs every episode) always comes back to the plot.
April 20, 2020
Duncan Trussell and Pendleton Ward's The Midnight Gospel is unlike anything else on television.
April 20, 2020
The Midnight Gospel succeeds by subverting expectations of what one might expect from adult Adventure Time - and then subverting them again for one last emotional punch.
April 17, 2020
It's not the Second Coming of Adventure Time, but it's totally unique and provides plenty of deep food for thought.
April 20, 2020
The Midnight Gospel can be a little amusing at these times, simply for the "what the f--k" shock to your system, but it's not a sustainable concept because like the rest of those shocks, it numbs with repetition and time.
April 20, 2020
It pairs a laid-back, talk-heavy approach with lavish, surrealist animation. But much like the podcast episodes it frames itself around, there's not much in the way of an ongoing narrative to reward viewers or justify a binge session.
April 14, 2020
The Midnight Gospel made me laugh, think hard thoughts about things I never have, and contrary to many other shows, I can already imagine myself returning to Clancy and his strange, imperfect spacecast multiple times in the future.
April 20, 2020
The result is a little like Mr Benn for adults or, if you prefer, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but with Jerry Seinfeld replaced by a pink cartoon human wearing nothing but a Gandalf hat and a hand towel to conceal his modesty.
April 20, 2020
While the combination of creative talent behind the scenes is a winner, this new series is likely only going to appeal to the Adult Swim crowd. Your mile(high)age may vary.
