This Netflix Animated Series Is Weird And Beautiful

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The Midnight Gospel is the wondrous yet strange brainchild of Duncan Trussell, and is exceedingly hard to explain. The best way of describing the Netflix show is that it is an action-based cartoon that pinpoints and examines various aspects of humanity, including spirituality and reality, life and death, reincarnation and the endless void of “un-life”, all through the lens of wacky science-fiction fantasies. Similar to a lot of adult cartoons these days, it features a strange mix of whimsical, pastel-toned imagery, with the occasional 18+ sequences. But what is it all about?

The show, on paper at least, is a podcast adaptation, with dialogue taken directly from Trussell’s interviews found on The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, a weekly podcast, where the comedian and guests talk openly about a large variety of topics. Snippets from these conversations have been adapted into seemingly unrelated, yet somehow still perfectly poignant, visual stories, centred about the destruction or natural end of a universe/life. The Netflix show follows the protagonist Clancy (Duncan Trussell himself), a strange pink humanoid figure, who lives in a caravan with a matrix-style “used universe Simulator,” alone and isolated from anyone he knows. The simulator is a strange mix of technology and biology, that births Clancy into a selected simulated universe, into an organic avatar, much like jumping into a video game and interacting with the NPCs there.

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The main difference here is that, although a simulation, these NPCs are not theglitchy run-of-the-mill NPCs, and have a soul of sorts, and are full of various insights into the universe. These personalities Clancy encounters are