Review: 'Adventure Time' meets a metaphysical podcast in Netflix's extraordinary new 'toon
by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
Apr 20, 2020
3 minutes
Pendleton Ward, who created "Adventure Time With Finn and Jake," has a new cartoon, "Midnight Gospel," made in collaboration with the comedian Duncan Trussell, and it is an ambitious, extraordinary, dreadful, beautiful thing.
As a work that concerns spiritual equanimity in the face of mortality and apocalypse, the series, which premiered Monday on Netflix, is also unexpectedly apt for these strange days. Simply put - though there is nothing simple about it - it animates interviews from Trussell's "Duncan Trussell Family Hour," a podcast with a focus on Eastern religions, mysticism and "magick," in a wildly
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