History YMMV / TheMidnightGospel

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In "Officers and Wolves", after being ground up into slurry, Clancy, Annie, and Raghu are piped into a glass vessel in the shape of Creator/AugusteRodin's "The Thinker", which the clown-parasites are celebrating with fanfare.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series is also considered this to ''WesternAnimation/WakingLife'', due to their trippy animation and ad-libbed philosophical themes.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In "Officers and Wolves", after being ground up into slurry, Clancy, Annie, and Raghu are piped into a glass vessel in the shape of Rodin's "The Thinker", which the clown-parasites are celebrating with fanfare.

* BrokenBase: A fairly major divide regarding the frame story. Very few dispute whether or not it and its plot serve to distract from the meat of the series, the podcast interviews realized through DerangedAnimation. But in general, those who like the show tend to like it in spite of the frame story, focusing entirely on the podcast and visuals, while those who don't like the show often bring up how the frame story paints the protagonist as an incredibly unlikable person or [[spoiler: subjects a likable character to a FateWorseThanDeath]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Out of all of Clancy’s interviewees, Trudy seems to get the most fan art. Likely due to her design and [[VengefulWidow interesting backstory]]. Episode 4 is also often cited as one of the best, the fantasy context and the relatable subject playing in its favor.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: As [[DerangedAnimation deranged]] the animation is, the worlds are lush and beautiful and the simpler character designs allow for subtle, nuanced body language that isn't common with many other animated shows. The trippy visuals help undercut the down-to-earth [[SeinfeldianConversation Seinfeldian Conversations]] as well.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: As [[DerangedAnimation deranged]] the animation is, the worlds are lush and beautiful and the simpler character designs for a lot of subtle, nuanced body language that isn't common with many shows. The trippiness of the visuals helps undercut the down-to-earth [[SeinfeldianConversation Seinfeldian Conversations]] as well.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** In "Taste of the King", Clancy tells Glasses Man about the time he nearly died from combining benzodiazepines and alcohol, despite ''knowing beforehand'' how dangerous such a combination would be.
** Also in "Taste of the King", several people are walking their pets or holding political demonstrations while zombies are roaming the landscape.

** "Blinded By My End" features a new avatar for Clancy that has a cluster of a dozen penises, giant ravens with breasts that villagers ''milk'', and a villain whose rear end transforms into a giant tooth-lined maw that demands to be fed.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It's a brightly colored animated show from the [[Creator/PendletonWard same guy]] who brought us ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (which, despite being on a [[Creator/CartoonNetwork children's network]], did too have its share of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar adult humor]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier dark moments]], and was more geared toward preteens and teenagers than young children), so it must be appropriate for kids, right? Wrong. It's chock-full of nudity, sexual situations, language, and drug use in ways that make ''Adventure Time'' look like it's for preschoolers.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It's a brightly colored animated show from the [[Creator/PendletonWard same guy]] who brought us ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (which, despite being on a [[Creator/CartoonNetwork children's network]], did too have its share of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar adult humor]] and [[DarkerAndEdgier dark momemts]], and was more geared toward preteens and teenagers than young children), so it must be appropriate for kids, right? Wrong. It's chock-full of nudity, sexual situations, language, and drug use in ways that make ''Adventure Time'' look like it's for preschoolers.

* AuthorFilibuster: The most prevalent criticism of the show thus far. Whilst many don’t mind given this is sort of part of the show’s charm, others feel it can get excessive and even fall into the realm of pretentiousness, like with Clancy’s talk with his mom.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: In "Annihilation of Joy", Clancy and Jason, Bob's bird-spirit extol the virtues of hopelessness.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The core concept of the show, the metatextual aspect of the real podcast audio over the animated sequences, is barely touched upon in any of the promotional material, leaving some viewers and critics feeling either completely baffled or disappointingly deceived into watching what initially appears to be a glorified animated podcast.