IT HIT ME AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT SERIES
IT HIT ME AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT TV

вЂњIt wasnвЂ™t like, вЂNow that IвЂ™ve experienced this trauma I will sit down and writeвЂ™ вЂ“ it was more that I knew something had to come out of me.вЂќДЄt the same time, The Midnight GospelвЂ™s co-creator Trussell was laying bare his own grief to create the showвЂ™s stunning finale. вЂњWhen you lose somebody to a debilitating illness like that itвЂ™s like youвЂ™re losing them piece by piece, so the trauma comes in waves.вЂќ The experience shaped Nite Creatures in subtle ways. вЂњI had to quickly fly thousands of miles to the middle of the country and say goodbye,вЂќ remembers Wong, who had done вЂњa lot of processingвЂќ since his dad had first got sick. After landing the job on The Midnight Gospel, he was forced to pull out of the showвЂ™s first spotting session after getting the news that his father, who had been ill for years after suffering a stroke, was nearing the end of his life. But beneath the proggy pomp, WongвЂ™s songs also reveal themselves as gentle meditations on grief and existential dread: вЂњYouвЂ™re still running from the spirits that haunt you,вЂќ as he sings cheerily on вЂIn The Morning.вЂ™ Matters of life and death have been on WongвЂ™s mind in the last couple of years. PepperвЂ™s through to Scott Walker and Kate Bush. Nite Creatures is a record of grand proportions, employing two dozen guest musicians to pick up a thread of orchestral pop running from the Zombies and Sgt. From zombie singalongs and prog-rock mall muzak to circuit-bent pop songs and tear-jerking harp solos, WongвЂ™s score is as playful and unpredictable as the show itself.

IT HIT ME AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT TV

But what ties it all together is the enchanting soundtrack: a rainbow-splattered suite of songs and skits composed by punk drummer turned in-demand TV composer Joe Wong.

IT HIT ME AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT SERIES

Dreamt up by Duncan Trussell and Pendleton Ward, itвЂ™s an eight-part Netflix series about the really, really big stuff вЂ“ love, death, drugs, magic, grief вЂ“ told through candy-coloured characters, surreal visual gags and dialogue ripped from a real-life podcast.Д«etween WardвЂ™s wacky animated multiverse and the free-wheeling script, as voiced by comic Duncan Trussell and his Family Hour podcast guests, The Midnight Gospel is a strange brew indeed. ThatвЂ™s your warning: now make sure to experience one of the weirdest, cleverest, most ambitious adult animationsВ ever to hit television screens. The dreary days of lockdown had probably left me vulnerable, but IвЂ™ve never cried over a cartoon like I cried at the last episode of The Midnight Gospel.

It hit me at the stroke of midnight