The Midnight Gospel co-creator Duncan Trussell made a passionate plea for Season 2. Netflix hasnt said too much about the next salvo of episodes. When the show launched on April 20th, a lot of fans seemed to get a kick out of the trippy visuals. Even more of them seemed moved by Clancys journey through the Chromatic Ribbon. Well, Trussell talked to Deadline about the series and some of the biggest moments from Season 1. The emotional finale that centers on a conversation with his deceased mother came up, as did the lingering question of Season 2. Both the podcast host, and animator Pendleton Ward would love to make a return trip to Clancys world. But, they will have to wait until they get word from the streaming giant on the next steps.
Obviously, theres a writhing part of me that is deeply in suspense, waiting for a decision to be made, one way or the other, and if I said that wasnt there, everybody would know I was a horrible liar, he told the publication. But that being said, they let us make this crazy thing! To me, its just the wildest thing to imagine that any network would let me and Pendleton roll with this wild ideaand now, its living on Netflix forever.
Thats glorious. But if you have any kind of magical powers, or even better, some connection to Netflix, give us a second season! Please, I want to make more, he continued. Theres so many more stories to tell about The Chromatic Ribbon. You know, we mapped out that world, and we barely, barely got into that world. But nothing youre seeing in that shownot a single word, not a single momentwas unintentional. It all connects to a really big history, and a very deep story.
Comicbook.coms Rollin Bishop reviewed Midnight Gospel, and hes probably still thinking about all these months afterward.
Overall, Im not quite sure if I enjoyed watching The Midnight Gospel, but I absolutely cant stop thinking about it. And maybe the point isnt to like it, but to chew on it, anyway? Its not like the interview subject matter is light reading material theres a whole episode about ceremonial magic and Eastern traditions and the animation flies by at a pace where new, fantastical environments, characters, and obstacles are introduced practically every minute, Bishop wrote. 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.
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