The Midnight Gospel
2020
Original language: English
- animation
- comedy
- sci-fi & fantasy
- mystery
The story
Traversing trippy worlds inside his universe simulator, Clancy the space caster explores existential questions about life, death and everything in between.
What it’s like
Hand-drawn psychedelic animation in saturated, shifting palettes, with backdrops that melt, fold and bloom like something seen through closed eyes, and characters rendered in loose, rubbery Pendleton Ward lines. Each episode unspools in a different dreamscape, often bright and dizzying, sometimes eerie or quietly sad, while the frame stays tightly on a small floating-head interface and the pace slows into long, unhurried passages of talk. The sound is a collage of ambient synth drones, soft tonal swells and stray bursts of electronic noise under a steady, conversational voice. The vibe is meditative and hallucinatory, with a reflective, slightly melancholy warmth and an undercurrent of gallows humour. Its people are mostly drifting, grieving or searching, and the arcs turn on acceptance of mortality and the small kindnesses that persist anyway. Violence and gore appear in some episodes, often cartoonishly strange rather than graphic, and death is discussed frankly and often; mild profanity and dark jokes are frequent, with some adult themes. It suits late-night, solitary viewing, and it is for people who enjoy philosophy wrapped in surreal, colourful strangeness.
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