The Midnight Gospel and 3 Other Lesser-Known Animated TV Series From Netflix
Dogs looking for a new home for humans and a show about working for a conspiracy theorist company.
Every year, Netflix is working with more and more animated projects. Some of them are in the spotlight, while others are unfairly overshadowed – here are four such TV series.
1. Dogs in Space, 2021-2022
A charming version of Rick and Morty, with cute dogs instead of an alcoholic scientist and his grandson. Earthlings, having finally destroyed their own planet, decide to send dogs on a space journey in search of a new home.
The main characters are members of one of the most unlucky groups who accidentally destroy entire nations during their expeditions, and the viewer will follow their absurd galactic adventures.
The comparison to Rick and Morty is not limited to the sci-fi setting. Dogs in Space also has a lot of awkward humor, but here it is much more harmless and simple.
2. Centaurworld, 2021
If Dogs in Space is Rick and Morty for kids, then Centaurworld is a simplified version of Adventure Time. A horse accidentally ends up in a fantasy universe inhabited by strange creatures and must return to its owner and save her from the clutches of minotaurs.
Songs from old-fashioned musicals are interspersed with irony about the genre: the human-animal hybrids that the arrogant heroine meets along the way turn out to be so tiresomely cute that it starts to be amusing.
3. Inside Job, 2021-2022
Reagan is a talented but antisocial inventor at Cognito Inc, a conspiracy-theory company. Not only does she need to get out from under the shadow of her father, who once ran the company, but she also needs to get a long-awaited promotion.
The latter is only possible under one condition: if Brett is assigned to her – he got the job because of his cute face and charming smile, and he also knows how to find a common language with his colleagues.
Inside Job is a project of Shion Takeuchi and Alex Hirsch, the authors of the famous animated series Gravity Falls. Despite the fact that attentive viewers will probably draw more than one parallel with the beloved summer vacation story, we have a show of a completely different kind: more evil, cynical and caustic.
4. The Midnight Gospel, 2020
A traveling podcaster gets tired of his ordinary life and goes to interview various creatures on dying worlds. He will have to face problems never seen before and answer existential questions that torment the characters.
The Midnight Gospel can be compared to Rick and Morty – strange worlds and creatures are presented with witty humor. At the same time, The Midnight Gospel is much more ironic about the modern world and the idea of podcasting.