The final episode left me in tears. It made me want to spend more time with my mum.

This was literally one of my favorite shows of all time.

This is one of my favorite shows i cant wait for season two!!

I just finished watching the series and I cried like a baby

I’m gonna get sniped when I say that he art style reminds me of adventure time’s rip off (I forgot what it was called)

Man the episode with his mother really got me...

You should review Primal a adult show about a cave man named spear ( I think) and a t-rex named fang

this review really underplays the arch of the series. I at first agreed with this review while watching and I continued to watch and the final takeaway takes the entire series to see.

the animation does hold relevance to the pod but I agree it's distracting but I'm also realizing it all was needed for the overall picture and concept of the series.

I’ve seen this show 2 separate time once on acid and once just for fun and honestly it’s great either way. The messages are more clear when on nothing but when on acid you see the point in the show and the subtle messages that only the animation can give you if you are only paying attention to the words spoken by the characters

Honestly, i get your point and it makes sense but I feel the clutter helps the viewer...just like in adventure time the flashy colorful background eases the viewer into it, putting the viewer in a state of calmness or relaxation making it seem like a "Kids Show" or something easy to digest, and then out of nowhere comes this really good point. It gives the viewer a false sense of security and then hits them with hard cold issues and or statements that make him/her think about it . Not completely disagreeing with you in fact I also feel it sometimes overdoses this trope. Nothing big just my opinion, but either way good video

I'm late I know but still, I started watching this show yesterday, I was high AF and it blown my mind.

Well this is about as terrible and unfunny like the improvized humor episodes of Rick and Morty. Animation should be made first, THEN voice acting, not the other way around. They might as well just show pretty pictures around the interviews, they have about as little to do with them as this animation.

It also has really awesome song tracks, really enjoyed "bow down to the worms"

I cried on episode 8

You kinda have to look at this show as an animated podcast rather than a traditional animated show

You NEED to watch it stoned.

This was the only film to make me cry since I was a kid. I cant explain with words how deep this show got to me. And anyone wondering..... You NEED to see it! (Plus the multiverse simulator is principle vagina)

I like this show a lot

Great show for lsd

I had to stop watching this show a long time ago because of the swearing on 1 episode

Watched this whole show on acid and wow is all I have to say trips you out in every sense visually and mentally the last episode is crazy

The entire point is that there's meaningful dialogue happening while completely unrelated chaotic things occur around them. That's life. Everything that happens in this show is a synecdoche for the chaotic and uncontrollable nature of life, and how we have to find quiet and peace in this cacophony.

Watch it the first time, your eyes bleed. Watch it a second time, your brain bleeds.

Because of this show I started listening to Duncan's podcast.

the last episode with his mother dying made me sad but not for the reasons you'd think, I was sad because I'll never feel that way about my mother I will not be mourning her loss when she dies.

Idk it’s so therapeutic it’s just so calming

*cries a smol tear*

I love this show I even thought it was like adventure time. It is something different it is definitely something u would understand more stoned or trippin. episode 8 is emotional but I loved episode 6

Bro, I watched the 8th episode and cried several times through it. It's so sad.

Duncan Trussel is brilliant. Such an amazing and interesting human.

I love finding a show thats different.

Am I the only one who had watched it over 10 times and still would watch it ? Cause I would watch it 100 more times I like it that much

episode 8 made me _𝒔𝒐𝒃_

Dunken 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣who’s dunken

I despised this show. I couldn't make it past episode two

Just mentioning episode 8 has me crying

to me its perfect

I accidentally started at episode 5, and I think it's a better fitting pilot episode than the zombies one, it really feels more like the start of a journey, cause **********MINOR SPOILERS*********** he is supposed to go to a chill planet and ends up in a totally different, dark souls like planet.

I have to say I disagree that the format doesn't work, I think it works very well, but at the end of the day it's an opinion. Like many other people have already said, you definitely missed some connections between the animations and the dialogue. If you personally don't think that it works I have no issue with that, I will definitely admit that this show is not for everyone. Some people will love it and some will hate it. I definitely do agree with your point about the sound effects, I feel that the audio mixing could have been handled a bit better. The only real issue I have with your take on it is simply the fact that you insist that the format doesn't work as if it were a hard lined fact which couldn't be farther from the truth in this case. For me, the animations helped to introduce some levity to otherwise very heavy subjects and managed to do so, in my opinion, without reducing the seriousness of the subject matter. It helped me to relax while talking about some subjects that generally make me feel anxious, the idea of ones own mortality being a big one. I think the entire thing is brilliant quite frankly, though definitely a bit avant garde. That being said, I watch your reviews from time to time and I pretty much always enjoy them, even though I don't always agree with all of your points, and this one is no exception. I like the fact that you're still able to point out the things that you do like even when there are parts of it that you definitely don't like and this review is a great example of that. I personally think it's important to differentiate between things that are bad and things that you don't like and you tend to do a better job than many other reviewers on youtube.

Oh it's this sex pest

Oh finally my favorite show :3

I listened to the episodes by themselves once after watching them but in the final episode it’s really just Duncan talking to his mom.

I am very much like watching the show and appreciated hearing your opinion on it thank you

I just recently lost one of my closest childhood friends a couple weeks ago and the last episode got me completely. I was watching the show with my girlfriend (I don’t smoke or anything but she does so I enjoy the themes, she enjoys the visuals, win-win.) and we’d gotten through nearly the whole season to the final episode. I was watching it and thinking about my current situation nearly the whole time, but just about managing to keep it down, but once Clancy’s mom says “I’ll still love you always” or something along those lines while vanishing into the black hole I broke. I was just overtaken with emotion, and I broke down crying right then and there. This show has some clutter and random visuals, but if nothing else watch the final episode. It’s a myriad of the walk through life and if you’ve ever lost a loved one, it will hit you especially hard. It’s truly a beautiful piece of animation and story telling, and knowing the background now it’s even more touching. Anyways though, thank you Steve for this, I really enjoy your videos and commentary on the way to work sometimes so keep up the good work! :)

Tbh this show feels like what Autism feels like...

Bro I cried at the last episode

Personally, I loved it. I think its not like a lot of animated shows because it's necessary to reflect and find imagery in the animation. Not for everyone tho

If you only watch one episode of Midnight Gospel. It should be episode 8. Excellent episode!

The last episode hit different for me

The philosophy in this show is so basic i couldn't go past ep 4 Its literally the ramblings of shallow high people who are just now realizing basic facts and incoherences about life I had those at fourteen, and the amount of people who think these are mind blowing revelations heavily concern me, like you never stopped to ponder about the war on drugs, the value of life, introspection?

I was very confused what was happening at first

I’ve watched this show 4 times over and I’m still learning from it.

Yeah! I think your right, I love the show, visually it's stunning, but i wanted a more cartoon driven narrative? everytime it switched to a podcast I can tell, it's super obvious and really took me out of it. I wanted the interviews to kinda be from the show? You know, talking about their lives as the characters in the show Loved it, but it's just..jarring

I thought i was the only one who couldn't focus on dialogue XD I was worried if i had ADHD or something that couldn't concentrate at all XD But yeah, this show is something new and fresh. I really love it, and it definitely needs a few rewatches to understand it fully.

That last episode was worth watching the series.

How did you watch the first episode-

The show is not good

I loved this when I watched it

Tbh I stopped watching after ep 2: I enjoyed both the animation and the dialogue but only separately and found rather stressful to follow both for the entire episode. A lot of shit happens and they talk too fast for a non native speaker, but I get the general appeal.

never mess with time travel its causes dif effects in their timeline

do crossing swords

I tried watching it and tried to understand what was going on, but I kept focusing on either the visuals or the podcast, making my experience with it irritating as I would rewind it and try to understand and, by the end of the episode, learned absolutely nothing of what's going on. Personally, I don't like the show cause it did feel very cluttered, and the only episode that I actually enjoyed was the last episode.

hahaha no.

The first episode was a tiny bit clunky but I reckon they did a splendid job on everything after once they really knew what they were doing.

In the end if episode one they show what they learned by using an anidote drug that takes them out of the zombie trance and gets them eaten alive, showing that drugs can be bad or good

The show sounds very interesting.

I found the competition between the interview and action the most charming. I liked how little fucks they seem to give once they get engrossed in their discussion, like it's somehow so profound that nothing else matters.

I dont know under how many videos of this show I commented but I dont seem to get tired to do so. I love this show! Have seen the season maybe 20 times already and everytime I discover new details. And of course episode 8... damn no matter how many times I watch this when the point comes where Duncan asks "theres no way to stop the heart from breaking so what do you do against all that heartbreak?" And his mom simply answers with "You cry..." My own tears burst out of me before the animation on screen shows Clancy's tears... just like an waterfall.... and after that I always feel like a few Kilos fell off my chest. I hope they get to do another season!!!

Man I cried at the last episode. It hurts

I watch an episode every night and I'm still disappointed there's only about 8 episodes...

This show is meant to be watched tripping. That's what the visuals are for.

I watched the midnight Gospel with my best friend and we had a blast watching it, we both had a good time even tho Ill Agree the visuals can be distracting of the conversation. Episode 8 made us cry like a bunch of babies on call and now that I know the true story behind the podcast...it makes this show so much better....

I tried it, I hate it.

Wow. I just got into this guys content and this show and here they both are. Neat

Do keep in mind the show is created to be watched while high

I remember watching this and doing embroidery and I just loved this show. The last episode had me in tears cause I know what it's like to have a parent with cancer. It sucks and every moment counts. This show while making me very sad at times, also made me feel so relax. I recommend everyone watch it from the first episode. The art is beautiful and the only thing I'd change is that there is only I episodes. Puts u in a headspace and really makes you think. This show us just beautiful

I am sure you didnt have subtitles on while watching the show. To be sure i enjoyed the show/podcast/animation. And even if it would sound a bit crazy. It answered a some questions for me. Made me fell more zen. And also the activity in the background was pretty interesting sometimes. The single thing I still wonder about is Clancy's sister

I don't think you understand this show.

Really pretentious show, still i think with how different is each episode they should be held separately, i would say the only ones that weren't full "fortune cookies" where the prison, the death and the mother episodes. The concept is actually good, but the execution is rather questionable, if they could give more focus and deep to a next season the show could truly be great.

When you put your Netflix account on adult

Okay, but, is it just me, or are that dude's Powerpuff Girls eyes super distracting to anyone else?

I finally know what Arabic turtle is from now! Creature comforts

Ummm all of the visuals are increasingly important to the main idea of the podcast wow I didn’t realize that people could be so dense that it goes over its head... I mean obviously this show about existentialism would have immense imagery to further portray its point but some people just see it as a bunch of bs and think it’s worthless... now that’s sad

The Midnight Gospel is unique, it's the herald of a new genre. The animation represents the conversation in a metaphorical way, you can observe it if you change your narrow perspective.

Yahh no I like midnight gospel more becouse of the animation not complementing what the characters are saying becouse then we get to see other parts of the world and storie separated of the main story of the character. It make the world feel even more alive. So yahh I Doo disagree of what you sead.

The colour palette of this show hurts my eyes. I'm not saying it's bad tho.

Fuck you steven

I could see it both ways but I do think that's a zombie metaphor worked well with the drugs conversation at least what I seen it seemed as though it was trying to point out how scary something could look on the outside people are infected and falling apart and that's the only way you get to see it but once they were infected they realized it wasn't so scary on the other side which is a pretty apt metaphor for most drugs But it is also true that a lot of interesting things are going on in the animation and also going on in the conversation which makes it hard to focus on both specially someone like me with ADHD

I personally was able to lay attention to most of what they were saying but there were a few parts such as when that monsters add ate one of the characters boyfriends.

i think it is rather telling that i watched the whole season twice now and the only thing that sticks to my mind about the entire show is "i wanna hear you say it? say you fucked my wife!" also there was some talk about Ghandi, i dunno

Yeah, this show didn't do it for me. I love the art, but I'm not a fan of the podcast dialogue and I abhor stoner culture, which this show exudes straight and obvious from the pilot.

The final episode made me sob like a little baby

So I started watching this video but stopped after a minute cuz I wanted to watch it myself. I love this show. I just finished it and it's a mixture between crazy situations and actual conversations between people. The first episode was a little odd but I liked how calm they were during a zombie apocalypse. Definitely a good change in pace. Also the last episode hit me like a truck. A beautiful and powerful message behind it. Please watch it if you have the chance

Everybody knows this show only makes any sense on LSD.

For me the prison episode was the best one. Not only was it interviewing a person I already knew about and respected (occultist and mystic Jason Louv), but the theme of the interview (Buddhism and reincarnation) and the prison narrative (An inmate attempting to escape and being reborn and starting again every time he is killed, learning to be less violent each time) tied together nicely. And the song the prisoner sings at the end when their tongue grows back is nothing short of beautiful.

I felt the same way about the animation and I actually noticed it was weird from the first episode. It felt like one of those Game Grumps Animated videos, where the animation depicts what's happening in the game and they sometimes react to it, but often they are babbling about other stuff.

The final episode made me tear up

That thumbnail description would also fit adventure time.

The animation isnt supposed to connect for the most part .