The Owl House (TV series)

The Owl House is an American animated fantasy television series produced by Disney Television Animation. The series was created by Dana Terrace, and premiered on Disney Channel on January 10, 2020.[3][4][5]

For the museum, see The Owl House.

The Owl House
Genre	Comedy[1] Fantasy[1] Adventure
Created by	Dana Terrace
Voices of	Sarah-Nicole Robles Wendie Malick Alex Hirsch
Opening theme	The Owl House Main Theme (composed by T. J. Hill)
Composer(s)	T. J. Hill[2]
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Dana Terrace
Producer(s)	Wade Wisinski Stephen Sandoval (supervising producer)
Editor(s)	Kevin Locarro Jenny Jordan (assistant editor) Rachel Vine (story editor)
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Disney Television Animation
Distributor	Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network	Disney Channel
Picture format	1080p (16:9 HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	January 10, 2020 – present (present)
External links
Official website

In November 2019, the series was renewed for a second season prior to the series premiere.[6]

Plot

Luz Noceda is a teenage human girl who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to another world instead of going to Reality Check Camp, a juvenile detention summer camp located in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. When on the Boiling Isles which is made from the remains of a dead Titan, she befriends the rebellious witch Eda the Owl Lady and her adorable demon roommate named King. Despite not having magical abilities, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda's apprentice at the Owl House and ultimately finds a new family in an unlikely setting.[7]

Cast

Main

• Sarah-Nicole Robles voices Luz Noceda,[1][8] a 14-year-old Dominican-American[9][10] girl who ends up on the Boiling Isles and becomes both Eda's apprentice and a new exchange student at Hexside Academy. Luz loves all things fantasy and magical, wanting to become a witch.[6] She finds out that she can use magic by drawing glyphs that she sees within her environment and spell circles witches cast to do magic. She finally became an official student of Hexside, though she was saddened at first as she was only allowed to learn one type of magic at a time, and not combine different magic types. Later however, Luz, with the help of the detention class students, saves the school from a magic eating Greater Basilisk who had disguised herself as the Emperor's Coven inspector. Principal Bump was convinced that mixing magics isn't a bad thing, and therefore let the other trouble making students take more than one class, with Luz becoming the first student who is officially allowed to learn magic from all the classes. According to Terrace, Luz is named after her Dominican-American roommate, Luz Batista, a story artist and consultant for the show.[11]
• Wendie Malick voices Edalyn "Eda" Clawthorne,[1] the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles, Luz's teacher, and a wanted criminal for selling human items, not joining a coven, and stealing, among other things.[6] Her nickname "the Owl Lady" comes from the fact that she was cursed to become an owl-like monster when she was younger by an unknown figure, which can only be countered by a daily elixir, which is gradually losing its effect. In mid-season finale, the elixir has lost its effect altogether. It can no longer cure her, much to her shock and fear. Unlike most witches who join covens (other than the witches in the Emperor's Coven), she can use all types of magic. Just like Luz, she wanted to learn all the types of magic possible but wasn't able to due to Hexside's rules forbidding her to do so. So to subvert this, she used her magic to create a secret hideout which is equipped with magical doors which act as shortcuts to help her navigate around the school and learn all magic types from all the other classes undetected.
• Alex Hirsch voices King,[1] a small dog-like demon and Eda's roommate who is the self-proclaimed King of Demons. He spends much of the series being a feisty trouble maker. He is well aware of his short comings, but that does not stop him from trying to exert dominance. Upon meeting Luz, he starts off speaking to her like a servant, but slowly begins to treat her like a close friend and even begins to take on aspects of acting like a pet around her. He later admits that he begins to miss her whenever she is gone for long periods of time. Since then, he has become openly affectionate to her while also keeping his rambunctious attitude.
  • Hirsch also voices Hooty, the witty sentient barn owl-headed doorknocker of the titular house who can also stretch out his neck to long lengths.[6] Luz, Eda and King tend to ignore him, not just because he is a house, but because he tends to act surreal and awkward around them.

Recurring

• Tati Gabrielle voices Willow Park,[1] a student at Hexside and Luz and Gus’s friend who is skilled with plant magic. Originally, Willow was placed in the abomination class, due to her parents' wishes until her use of plant magic caused her to be transferred to the plant class. She and Amity used to be close friends since childhood but due to Amity's parents not wanting to associate with her due to her lack of magic, Amity cut ties with her, which caused great misery to both her and Amity. In "Understanding Willow", it is revealed that Willow lives with her two fathers.
• Issac Ryan Brown voices Augustus "Gus",[1] a student at Hexside and Luz and Willow’s friend who is skilled with illusion magic and attends illusion class. He once was the president of a club called the Human Appreciation Society (H.A.S.) before he was removed from the position by Principal Bump after the detention room incident.
• Mae Whitman voices Amity Blight,[1] a top student at Hexside who is an abomination expert. She starts as Luz's main rival making fun of Willow for her apparent lack of magical talent. She eventually befriends Luz and develops feelings for her because of her kind nature. Like Luz, she is a big fan of the novel series The Good Witch Azura. She and Willow used to be the closest of friends since childhood but her uptight and condescending parents told her to cut ties with Willow as she is far too weak to be a witch and if she doesn't, they will and ensure Willow will never attend school again. Alas, Amity was cowed to do so and extremely saddened that she had to hurt her only true friend in her life. She doesn't like Skara and Boscha as she finds them mean and cruel to people. She never considered those two her friends as she was told by her parents to befriend them as they were very powerful witches.
• Bumper Robinson voices Hieronymus Bump,[1] the principal of Hexside who wears a demon-shaped hat over half his face. In the episode "Adventures in the Elements," it was revealed that he was the young student responsible in defeating the opposing school and helped build Hexside, as shown in its information pamplet. After the events of "The First Day", he became more accepting of the other students' desire to learn more than one magic type after Luz and her new friends, the detention class students saved the school from a deadly Greater Basilisk who tried to consume all the magic from the staff and students thanks to their mixed magic skills. Since that day, he made it official that students have now the choice to learn more than one magic type.
• JB Blanc voices Professor Abominable, a teacher who teaches students how to make abominations and is carried around Hexside by his own Abomination.
• Dana Terrace voices Tiny Nose, a small round creature with a prominent nose and a conspiracy theorist who has a thirst for destruction.
• Cissy Jones voices Lilith Clawthorne, Eda's estranged sister and leader of the Emperor's Coven. She still cares for her sister as she told Eda that the Emperor can cure her owl monster-type curse, and wants her to join the Emperor's Coven.
• Parvesh Cheena voices Tiblit Tibley "Tibbles" Grimhammer III,[1] a night market stand owner and con artist who supplies Eda's curse elixir.
• Eden Riegel voices Boscha,[1] a three-eyed witch and Amity's "friend" who is obsessed with Penstagram (the Boiling Isles' version of Instagram) and part of the potions class. She is very condescending and bullies others based on their magical prowess.
• Isabella Rossellini voices the Bat Queen, a palisman formerly owned by a giant that takes care of her children and other forgotten and broken palismans.
• Erica Lindbeck and Ryan O'Flanagan voice Emira and Edric Blight, Amity's older twin siblings and members of the illusion track. They are troublemakers who are always making fun of her.
• Jorge Diaz voices Mattholomule, Luz and Gus's new rival and part of the Construction class. He’s always in trouble at Hexside by getting detention. He became the new president of H.A.S. after Luz destroyed the detention room which Gus took the blame for.

Guest

• Matthew Rhys voices Emperor Belos,[6] the ruler of the Boiling Isles and founder of the Emperor's Coven.
• Mela Lee voices Kikimora, the boss of Lilith and Emperor Belos' personal assistant.
• Rachael MacFarlane voices Mrs. Blight, the mother of Amity.

Episodes

The first letters of the episode titles for season one spell out, "A WITCH LOSES A TRUE WAY".

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date [12]	Prod. code [12]	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"A Lying Witch and a Warden"	Stephen Sandoval	Story by : Zach Marcus, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Terrace & Vine	Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Cat Harman-Mitchell, Sandoval & Terrace	January 10, 2020 (2020-01-10)	101	0.61[13]
Luz Noceda, a girl who loves fantasy, is forced by her mother Camilia (Elizabeth Grullon) to go to Reality Check Camp, a juvenile detention summer camp located in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, following three different incidents at school that were brought to Camilia's attention. While waiting to be picked up, an owl takes her favorite witch book and she chases it into an abandoned house that transports her to the Boiling Isles, a magical realm in another dimension. She meets Eda, a fugitive witch who sells human items. Eda takes Luz to her home, the Owl House, where she introduces her to the adorably feisty King. Eda promises to take Luz back home if she helps them get King's crown back from Warden Wrath (Roger Craig Smith) at his prison, the Conformatorium. They successfully break in where Luz discovers that the "crown" is a kid's meal crown. Wrath captures them with the intent to ask Eda out on a date, but she refuses. A fight breaks out with Luz releasing the prisoners (whose crimes were for being different) and together defeat Wrath and escape. Luz decides to stay to become a witch and Eda reluctantly accepts. As Luz settles in for the night, she texts her mother to inform her that she's gonna like it at "camp."
2	"Witches Before Wizards"	Stu Livingston	Story by : Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Vine	Charlie Bryant, Hayley Foster & Cat Harman-Mitchell	January 17, 2020 (2020-01-17)	102	0.43[14]
Luz prepares herself to be a witch's apprentice, but is disappointed when a very indifferent Eda shows up to give her a simple task of delivering her potions to various customers. King goes with her as Luz is quick to learn that Bonesborough, the city on the Boiling Isles, is full of rather nasty creatures who do not care for her human background. Luz and King come across the brightly lit castle of a kindly wizard named Adegast (Robin Atkin Downes) who believes that Luz is the "Chosen One" who must retrieve the Celestial Staff. When Luz shows the map given to her by Adegast to Eda and King, they laugh at her. She leaves on her own for the quest just as Eda becomes suspicious and discovers the whole quest to be a ruse. Luz goes on her quest making allies while Eda and King follow behind. Eventually, Adegast is revealed to be a horrible puppeteer demon who used Luz to get capture Eda. He tries to coerce Luz into having her fantasy, but she breaks free with Eda and King helping her. Adegast is defeated and Eda eats him. Afterwards, Eda tells Luz that she must make her own destiny and shows her the surprising beauty of the Boiling Isles.
3	"I Was a Teenage Abomination"	Stephen Sandoval	Story by : Charley Feldman, Zach Marcus, Manuel Jesse Nieto Jr., John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Owen & Terrace	Inbal Breda, Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Madeleine Flores, Chris Pianka & Sandoval	January 24, 2020 (2020-01-24)	103	0.45[15]
Luz is dissatisfied with how Eda handles "training" her, but perks up upon learning that there is a school that teaches magic called Hexside Academy of Magic and Demonics, something Eda is against as she dropped out. Luz meets Willow (Tati Gabrielle), a young witch who is picked on by top student Amity Blight (Mae Whitman) for being terrible at creating abominations. Luz decides to pretend to be her abomination so that she can give Willow a passing grade and so she can see the school where she also meets Gus (Issac Ryan Brown), a human-obsessed student. Luz is able to fool the class' teacher (JB Blanc) with her appearance. Meanwhile, Eda and King make a bet to see who makes the better teacher with King winning due to Luz having gone missing. However, King's "student", a slug named Prince Jr., attacks the pair forcing King to rely on Eda once again. Amity figures out that Luz is not an abomination and calls upon Principal Bump (Bumper Robinson) to examine her through dissection. Gus creates a diversion and a chase ensues ending with Willow showing her true gift in plant magic. Luz escapes to get help from Eda. Willow and Gus arrive where Luz learns that Willow's been exonerated as Bump puts her in the plant courses. However, Gus informs Luz that she's banned from the school, but he and Willow can teach her what they learned. However Luz happily accepts Eda as her teacher.
4	"The Intruder"	Stu Livingston	Manuel Jesse Nieto Jr., Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine	Charlie Bryant, Cat Harman-Mitchell & Livingston	January 31, 2020 (2020-01-31)	104	0.51[16]
King tries to teach Luz about demons. But when a boiling rainstorm rolls in, Luz takes the opportunity to get Eda to teach her some magic. Tired and wanting the light-up pen, Eda teaches Luz how to create light, which causes her to pass out. King tells Luz that Eda keeps a bottle of elixir in her room and believes it can give her magic. Before she drinks it however, a monster breaks into the house which King is convinced is the Snaggleback. He meets a real Snaggleback, which turns out to be a pathetic pink monkey wearing a shell. With Luz, King discover that the elixir was to prevent a curse from taking hold of Eda who is the real monster. With King's encouragement, Luz learns how to create light and uses it to sequester Eda and give her the elixir. Eda reveals that she was cursed when she was younger and it causes her to transform into an owl monster, hence her nickname "The Owl Lady". She tells them not to worry about it and compliments Luz's new ability. Eda later has a brief nightmare of a shadowy figure who cursed her, but wakes up before she can get answers.
5	"Covention"	Aminder Dhaliwal & Stu Livingston	Story by : Charley Feldman, Zach Marcus, Manuel Jesse Nieto Jr., John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Feldman, Terrace & Vine	Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Dhaliwal, Amelia Lorenz & Kelsey Norden	February 7, 2020 (2020-02-07)	105	0.51[17]
Luz learns about the "Covention", a convention for witch hopefuls and begs a reluctant Eda to take her. While there, Luz runs into Amity who mocks King. Angered, Luz challenges her to a witch's duel. If she wins, Amity must apologize to King and say humans can become witches. If Amity wins, Luz must give up her witch training which they seal with a binding circle. Eda runs into her estranged sister Lilith, leader of the Emperor's Coven and they learn about their respective proteges' deal. Realizing that Luz does not know enough magic, Eda decides to cheat. Amity discovers this, but Eda realizes that Lilith cheated as well, humiliating Amity and resulting in the sisters fighting, though Eda escapes. After talking with Luz and reaching an understanding, Amity calls off the binding circle to let her continue training. Lilith gets a call from Emperor Belos' assistant Kikimora (Mela Lee) reminding her that she needs to capture Eda to receive her end of an unspecified deal.
6	"Hooty's Moving Hassle"	Stephen Sandoval	Charley Feldman, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace, Jeff Trammell & Rachel Vine	Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Madeleine Flores, Naomi Hicks, Ben Holm, Amelia Lorenz, Chris Pianka & Sandoval	February 21, 2020 (2020-02-21)	106	0.39[18]
Eda realizes that she is out of elixir and needs to restock, but her supplier Morton (Shannon McKain) is out of it. She is told that a supplier named Tibbles Grimhammer (Parvesh Cheena) at the Night Market might carry some and makes plans to go out with King to get more. Meanwhile, Luz discovers that Willow and Gus were uninvited to a Moonlight Conjuring by Amity and her friends and she agrees to bring them to the Owl House to have their own, despite Eda telling her not to. The three of them end up having the house grow legs and they learn to control it when they hold hands. Eda and King meet Tibbles who has the elixir, but it is expensive and Eda challenges him to Hexes Hold'em for the elixir. However, Eda loses and Tibbles reveals that he plans to hand Eda to the Emperor's Coven and keep King as a servant. The kids head to Amity to show her up, but a team of demon hunters grab the house and toss the kids over a cliff. Willow apologizes to Luz by admitting that she used to be friends with Amity and wanted to prove her worth. The kids manage to escape and defeat the hunters while also rescuing Eda and King who get the elixir and destroy Tibbles' stand. Eda confronts Luz on her actions and has her and her friends clean the house while also remarking on her powers. Meanwhile, Amity and her friends, who were unable to conjure anything, check their "penstagram" and are shocked to learn of Luz's adventure.
7	"Lost in Language"	Aminder Dhaliwal	Zach Marcus, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine	Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Dhaliwal, Ben Holm, Amelia Lorenz & Kelsey Norden	February 28, 2020 (2020-02-28)	107	0.46[19]
While Eda and King babysit a trio of bat children, Luz goes to the library to return Eda's overdue books. As she explores, she finds Amity reading to kids and thinks she can befriend her. Luz also meets Amity's older siblings, Emira and Edric (Erica Lindbeck & Ryan O'Flanagan), who take a liking to her. After messing around in the library, Amity tells on them and they get kicked out. Emira and Edric then invite Luz to break into the library with them during the Wailing Star. They break in as the star flies over the library, and it's magic brings the books contents to life. After some fun, they break into Amity's secret room to look for her diary so they can post it at school as payback. Luz doesn't want to do that, but unintentionally finds it and some of its pages fall out. Amity catches them in the act and calls Luz a bully, making Luz feel terrible. After telling Emira and Edric that she's gonna find Amity to apologize, she finds her and they have to fight an altered version of a beloved children's character. They fix it and the star's magic wares off. Luz lets Amity borrow the fifth Azura book as a way to say sorry, which Amity accepts. Luz returns to find Eda, King, and the bat kids asleep as the Bat Queen (Isabella Rossellini) comes in to pick up her kids. She gives them a treasure chest and a skull whistle for their troubles and leaves.
8	"Once Upon a Swap"	Aminder Dhaliwal	Story by : Charley Feldman, Molly Ostertag, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Feldman, Terrace & Vine	Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Dhaliwal, Hayley Foster, Ben Holm, Amelia Lorenz & Cat Harman-Mitchell	March 6, 2020 (2020-03-06)	115	0.51[20]
Luz wishes she could be like Eda and have magic solve all her problems, King wants to be like Luz because of teenagers' domineering lifestyle and Eda thinks that King has an easy life by being adorable. They resolve to spend the day body swapped with the loser having to clean Hooty, who is notoriously filthy. Eda as King enjoys being given free things, but finds herself taken in by two elderly cat café owners, Roselle and Dottie (Grey Griffin & Jones). Eda then finds herself being held prisoner. King as Luz confronts Boscha and convinces her friends to run amok all over town. Afterwards, Boscha challenges King to a race, resulting in their hangout's destruction. They chase King into the café where he too is held prisoner. Luz as Eda begins to make a fortune selling human items, but gets arrested. At Police Precinct 128, Lilith comes and tries to convince her to join the Emperor's Coven which Eda used to want, but she escapes and runs into Eda and King. Surrounded by the all the people chasing them, Eda swaps their bodies back and then swaps all of their pursuers. They return home, having learned their lesson, but because Eda and King refuse to help out this time, Luz ends up with cleaning duty to her annoyance.
9	"Something Ventured, Someone Framed"	Sabrina Cotugno	Story by : Zach Marcus, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Marcus	Emmy Cicierega, Cotugno, Madeleine Flores & Chris Pianka	March 13, 2020 (2020-03-13)	109	0.44[21]
When a new member of the Human Appreciation Society named Mattholomule (Jorge Diaz) challenges Gus' leadership, Gus decides to invite Luz to the meeting, and lies about her ban being lifted. The school is now enforced by trouble-smelling creatures working as security guards who throw troublemakers into detention following Luz' last visit. After thinking over Luz's desire to attend magic school, Eda caves in and reluctantly visits Bump about enrolling her into Hexside. He surprisingly agrees, believing the school could learn from having a human exchange student, on the condition that Eda fix every prank she pulled when she attended the school. Mattholomule's furious over Luz arriving and after feigning regrets over his actions, has Luz taken to detention. Gus then sends himself and Mattholomule to detention as well where it's revealed to be a giant pit with worm creatures that entrap and brainwash students to make them good. Luz and Gus escape with Mattholomule just in time to run into Bump and Eda. After calling off the worm creatures, Bump kicks out Luz. Gus takes the blame and he is removed from the H.A.S. as president and member altogether. Bump, impressed that he's "still alive", then makes Mattholomule the new president. Eda then tells Luz that she's allowing her into Hexside because she knows that she's smart enough to make her own decisions as well as Bump agreeing to not to tell the Emperor's Coven about their deal. Back at The Owl House, Luz and Eda pored over the many antics Eda caused when she used to be a student at Hexside.
10	"Escape of the Palisman"	Aminder Dhaliwal	Story by : Dana Terrace Teleplay by : John Bailey Owen, Terrace & Rachel Vine	Inbal Breda, Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Dhaliwal, Ben Holm & Amelia Lorenz	March 20, 2020 (2020-03-20)	108	0.52[22]
When Eda begins to feel the effects of her curse, she decides to take a rest. Luz meets up with Willow and Gus to see a grudgby match between Hexside and Glandus. They miss the bus, so Luz decides to use Eda's staff. They fly and end up crashing into a tree, resulting in Owlbert cracking his head and running from Luz. The kids run into the Bat Queen who is protecting Owlbert and gives Luz a series of trials to win Owlbert's trust back. King discovers that Eda is in her cursed form, but is more docile. He decides to use her to get revenge on the children at the park, but this alerts animal control, the former demon hunters, who take Eda away. He tries to use the elixir on her, but it has no effect. Knowing it's Eda's favorite thing for him to do, he squeals and it turns Eda back to normal. After completing the tasks, the Bat Queen refuses to give up Owlbert. Luz discovers that the Bat Queen was a palisman to a giant and has been protecting other palismans. Realizing that Owlbert trusts Luz now, she lets him go. As everyone heads home, Eda realizes that the elixir is not working well enough.
11	"Sense and Insensitivity"	Stu Livingston	Story by : Zach Marcus, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Marcus	Charlie Bryant, Hayley Foster, Cat Harman-Mitchell & Livingston	July 11, 2020 (2020-07-11)	111	0.41[23]
The Book Fair has come to Bonesborough and Luz is excited. When she discovers that a book writing contest is being held, she decides to enter it with King joining. Meanwhile, Eda discovers that Lilith is searching for the Bloom of Eternal Youth for the Emperor. When she calls Eda a "frail old biddy", Eda gets a map from the market owner to prove her wrong. Luz tries writing a romantic fantasy while King just wants to add violence. King takes over the book and refuses to listen to Luz's ideas. A publisher named Piniet (André Sogliuzzo) reads his manuscript and makes King famous overnight. When King has to write his second book however, Piniet tells him it is not good. He attempts to get Luz to help him, but she is instead offended at being used. Piniet kidnaps her and forces them to write the book or else they will be crushed into a cube like his previous clients. King finally learns to compromise with Luz and they manage to escape after burning his contract and when Tiny Nose arrives with her manuscript that reduces Piniet to tears. Eda and Lilith race to the Bloom only to discover that it was a trap by the market seller. They instead mock him and beat him up with Eda politely turning down Lilith's offer to join the Emperor's Coven and Lilith apologizes for her insult. Eda then leaves as Lilith zaps the bound market seller. Luz, Eda, and King return to The Owl House all exhausted from their rough and tumble days, only for Luz and King to lie about the book and head for bed.
12	"Adventures in the Elements"	Sabrina Cotugno	Story by : Charley Feldman, Zach Marcus, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Owen & Terrace	Inbal Breda, Emmy Cicierega, Cotugno, Madeleine Flores & Chris Pianka	July 18, 2020 (2020-07-18)[lower-alpha 1]	110	0.29[24]
Luz is excited to be joining Hexside Academy with her friends. While getting her Azura book back from Amity, she informs her that in order to share the same classes with her, she needs to know at least two spells. Otherwise, she will be put in the baby class. Luz convinces Eda to teach her a second spell and she takes her to The Knee, a snowy tundra on the Boiling Isles that's actually the dead Titan's knee to train. To Luz's shock, Amity is there as well being trained by Emira and Edric to make up for the library incident. Meanwhile, King uses a life-giving potion to create an army with his stuffed dolls. They turn on him and he ends up recruiting Hooty to destroy them after drawing a body for him on his door. Dissatisfied with Eda's teaching style and wanting to impress Amity and her siblings, Luz decides to steal Amity's training wand to teach herself fire magic. She ends up angering the Slitherbeast, a snow monster who kidnaps Eda, Emira, and Edric. Upset that Luz used up the power charge in her wand, Amity puts Luz in a cage to protect her while she tries to rescue them. Luz, being forced to wait, has an epiphany and learns ice magic, creating an ice block to escape. She catches up and uses her new powers to knock over the Slitherbeast while Eda puts the monster to sleep. In the end, Luz apologizes to Amity and she forgives her. Luz and Eda return home and Eda is furious when they find out what King and Hooty did.
13	"The First Day"	Sabrina Cotugno	Story by : Dana Terrace Teleplay by : Zach Marcus, John Bailey Owen, Terrace & Rachel Vine	Emmy Cicierega, Cotugno, Madeleine Flores & Chris Pianka	July 25, 2020 (2020-07-25)	113	0.43[25]
Luz attends her first day at Hexside, much to her enjoyment. However, she has trouble deciding what track to enroll in, so an annoyed Principal Bump places her in the potions track. When she tries to perform oracle magic, she is placed in the detention track where the original detention hall is still being repaired following the incident. Meanwhile, King follows Luz to school and takes over a class; teaching kids useless facts. As Luz manages to get Willow and Gus to help her escape detention, she learns that her fellow classmates Viney (Ally Maki), Jerbo (Noah Galvin), and Barkus have a secret shortcuts room established by "Lord Calamity" that they go to so that they can listen in on other covens and learn mixed magic. Viney was placed in the detention track for mixing healing and beast-keeping, Jerbo was placed there for mixing plant magic with abomination magic, and Barkus was placed there for mixing potion and oracle magic. They become offended when they learn that Luz said that she was better than them and makes her leave. As Bump tries to impress the inspector of the Emperor's coven, the inspector turns out to be a Greater Basilisk which drains magic from everyone, weakening them like it did with the other schools. Luz rushes back to the detentioners and asks for their help. Using their mixed magic skills, they defeat the Basilisk and return all their magic. Luz talks some sense into Bump who concedes and allows the students to learn mixed magic. Luz gains a mixed track colors as she wants to learn everything. Bump reveals that the only other student who wanted to learn everything was Eda, who is revealed to be Lord Calamity, but never got the chance to do it. While planning to file a complaint to the Emperor's Coven who denied any knowledge of the Greater Basilisk posing as their inspector, Bump discovers King posing as a teacher and chases him out with a broom.
14	"Really Small Problems"	Stu Livingston	Story by : Charley Feldman, Zach Marcus, Molly Ostertag, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Marcus & Terrace	Inbal Breda, Charlie Bryant, Hayley Foster, Cat Harman-Mitchell & Livingston	August 1, 2020 (2020-08-01)	112	0.51[26]
After Hexside gets closed for a pixie infestation, Luz, Eda, and King decide to go to the Bonesborough carnival with Eda seeing it as a good time to sell her human merchandise. They run into Tibbles who claims that he no longer has a grudge against them and instead runs a miniature circus called the "Tent of Tiny Terrors", full of miniature creatures. King wants to get a friendship necklace, so he and Luz need to collect tickets. However, Willow and Gus arrive and begin hanging out with Luz, leaving King feeling left out. Eda tries selling her valuables, but gets caught by the fun police who have her work selling concessions. Tibbles, in disguise, gives King a potion to make things disappear and uses it on Willow and Gus, who are actually shrunken down. They ride a fly and just as King and Luz win the friendship necklace, they bring Luz to a Hall of Mirrors where they reveal what happened. She confronts King about it, but they end up shrinking themselves. Tibbles puts them in his circus and has a Manticore, pigeon-type griffin, and mad unicorns chase after them. Realizing that it was all his fault, King lures the creatures away and then uses the necklace to have Tibbles pat his cheeks, restoring everyone to size. The fully regrown creatures then chase after Tibbles when Eda plants food on him. King apologizes and has the now broken necklace given to Luz, Willow, Gus and himself. Eda ends up taking Tibbles' profits for herself.
15	"Understanding Willow"	Aminder Dhaliwal	Story by : Charley Feldman, Zach Marcus, Molly Ostertag, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Owen	Inbal Breda, Emmy Cicierega, Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Sabrina Cotugno, Madeleine Flores, Ben Holm, Amelia Lorenz & Chris Pianka	August 1, 2020 (2020-08-01)	114	0.46[27]
Luz and Willow attend photo class which takes memories and places them into photos. However, tampering with the photos can affect a person's memory. While they are away, Amity spots a photo of her and Willow when they were younger and best friends. Wanting to hide it, she burns it, but accidentally burns Willow's other photos, causing Willow to lose her mind. Luz and Gus discover Amity's actions and together take Willow to Eda, who decides to send Luz and Amity into her mind to fix her memories. Meanwhile, Gus is taking a journalism class and cannot decide who to interview. Eda and King fight to be the ones to interview, but in the end Gus goes with Hooty, who just ends up annoying him. Luz and Amity venture through the memories and restore most of them. They discover that a fiery creature, revealed to be Willow's "inner self", has been damaging only the photos that have Amity in them. The inner Willow reveals the memory that scarred her; Amity telling Willow that she did not want to be her friend because she was weak. Amity then reveals that her parents forced her to give up their friendship because they considered Willow weak and threatened to bar her from Hexside. Amity apologizes for being a bad friend and the inner Willow concedes. Back in the real world, Willow states that while she and Amity are not friends right now, her actions were a positive start and thanks her for telling the truth. As Amity leaves, she lets go of Skara's invitation that was given to her earlier. Hooty continues to annoy Gus up until the point he gives up and heads for home.
16	"Enchanting Grom Fright"	Stu Livingston	Story by : Molly Ostertag, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Ostertag	Charlie Bryant, Emmy Cicierega, Cat Harman-Mitchell, Hayley Foster, Madeleine Flores, Chris Pianka & Spencer Wan	August 8, 2020 (2020-08-08)	116	0.34[28]
Luz discovers that Hexside has its own version of Prom called Grom with the Grom Queen going to Amity, who is upset at this news. Luz learns that on Grom, one student is chosen to face the fear demon Grometheus from wrecking havoc on the town. After Principal Bump rejects Amity's request to abandon the title, Luz steps up and decides to replace her, claiming that her fear is being looked down upon by Eda. Eda herself feels that Luz is too fragile to handle the situation and agrees to go to watch over her. Meanwhile, Gus invites King to be his co-emcee at Grom, but he is revealed to have stage fright. Once at Grom, Luz begins battling Grometheus. While she holds it off at first, it takes on her actual biggest fear, her mother discovering her secret of witch training. As she runs from the school, King overcomes his fear and directs the students toward the fight. Amity steps in to help Luz and her biggest fear is revealed to be rejection, from somebody she was too afraid to send a letter to, the letter is torn in half by Grom, which reveals the letter asked if they would go to Grom with her. Luz and Amity defeat the Grometheus together via dance-fight and are carried away by the school back to the party as Grom Queens alongside King, much to the delight of Eda, who congratulates Luz. Amity’s letter is shown to be addressed to Luz. Back home, Luz, who has been avoiding texting her mother, texts her back. When her mother tells her that she loves her "letters," Luz thinks she is talking about her texts only to be revealed that her mother is getting letters from someone claiming to be Luz.
17	"Wing It Like Witches"	Sabrina Cotugno	Story by : Zach Marcus, Molly Ostertag & John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Ostertag & Vine	Bosook "Bo" Coburn, Emmy Cicierega, Cotugno, Amelia Lorenz & Chris Pianka	August 15, 2020 (2020-08-15)	118	TBD
Willow suddenly has a confidence boost that earns the support of her fellow classmates. This does not sit well with Boscha, the Grudgby team captain, who still looks down on Willow and picks on her. Luz and Gus try to defend her against Boscha's hazing, but find themselves also getting attacked. Realizing she needs to literally beat her at her own game, Luz challenges Boscha to a Grudgby game on Willow's behalf. Luz extends help to Amity, but she turns her down out of embarrassment. Meanwhile, Lilith arrives at the Owl House to take Eda to the Emperor. In response, Eda says she will go if they play a Grudgby match together. Ultimately, Eda wins, but sympathetically gives her ring to Lilith telling her to tell him that she put up a fight. Lilith leaves stating that she won't visit alone next time. Luz pushes Willow and Gus in training, resulting in them getting tired. Amity reveals to Luz that she used to be team captain, but hurt her fellow players and quit. Luz decides to forfeit to Boscha. When Boscha begins to attack Luz, Amity recruits Willow back and have a proper Grudgby game. Luz and Willow perform a dangerous move and supposedly win, but Boscha's team ends up winning after catching a gold bug needed to end the game. Luz is upset at this, but Boscha's teammates congratulate Willow for the fun game, flustering Boscha. The friends then have a sports montage.
18	"Agony of a Witch"	TBA	TBA	TBA	August 22, 2020 (2020-08-22)	119	TBD
19	"Young Blood, Old Souls"	TBA	TBA	TBA	August 29, 2020 (2020-08-29)	120	TBD

Shorts

Look Hooo's Talking

A series of shorts, modeled after the aftershow format, titled Look Hooo's Talking premiered on the official YouTube channel for Disney Channel. The shorts, which are usually posted a day after an episode's airing but air right after its TV premiere, depict two live action owls named Horus Herashoo and Owlyvia Kim talking about the events of the most recent episode and pick apart some of the details that potentially will make an impact later in the show. At the end of each episode, the credits quickly scroll by, but when paused reveal the name of the "crew" which consists of names of the actual crew of the show, but with reimagined bird name puns such as the creator, Dana Terrace, being renamed Danightingale Terrace.[29]

Starting with the episode "Sense and Insensitivity", the format retired.

Owl Pellets

Disney Channel began releasing a series of comedic shorts involving Luz, Eda and King's antics with magic and the exploration of the Boiling Isles.

No.	Title	Original release date
1	"Welcome to Hexside!"	April 4, 2020 (2020-04-04)[30]
King was changing channels on his crystal ball until he stops upon seeing Principal Bump in a parody of 1980s commercials. In it, he introduces the viewer to Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. He tours the viewer about his school and every time he mentions a part of the school, one of the students in the commercial gets hurt. At the end, Bump believes that every student has their ability and support to have their full potential at his school and even believes that the magic of friendship...is no longer taught there due to budget constraints.
2	"Eda's Cursed Brush"	April 11, 2020 (2020-04-11)[31]
Eda sees Luz make a drawing of herself, Eda and King. Eda asks what she used to draw it. Luz explains she can draw with everything with just enough practice. She demonstrates this by drawing an owl on her palm with Eda's lipstick, drawing bats on a napkin with chalk and making a Good Witch Azura pancake. Eda then clarifies that she was asking because she lost a cursed pencil and can't find it. Suddenly, the first drawing of Luz, Eda and King comes alive and starts wreaking havoc. Luz says that maybe she shouldn't draw with everything after all, to which Eda replies she'll get the paper shredder.
3	"Paint Scare!"	April 18, 2020 (2020-04-18)[32]
King sees Luz drawing a background picture in the woods and asks how she's good at it. She's about to explain when she sees a shadowy monster on the painting, but does not recall seeing it before. She looks away, only to see the monster coming closer. Then King sees the monster holding up a sign that says "I'm right behind you." Luz and King scream. Later, while they're hiding under Luz's blanket, Luz says it might be better to paint when you're in the safety of your own home. It's then revealed that the scene is actually being painted by the shadow monster.
4	"Art Lessons with Luz"	April 25, 2020 (2020-04-25)[33]
King asks Luz how good she is at drawing to which Luz explains she uses a trick by using simple shapes. For example, when she draws King, she uses triangles and circles while using a tube and a circle to draw Hooty. Suddenly, Hooty appears and attacks his sketch, believing it to be an invader of his territory. Luz and King manage to calm him down, but later catch him talking to life-sized drawings of the two of them. Hooty sees them and freaks out.
5	"Coven Lovin Soap Opera"	May 2, 2020 (2020-05-02)[34]
Luz watches a soap opera on the crystal ball to which King expresses his disgust and leaves. The plot of the soap opera involves a witch having an affair with two handsome monsters. Just then, the witch's near dead mother appears and is about to tell a secret when she dies. Just before the ending can explain everything, the crystal ball's signal suddenly cuts off, much to King's disappointment, who was watching the show in secret. Luz cheers him up by explaining fan fiction.

1. This episode made its broadcast premiere on April 17, 2020 in Turkey.

Production

The Owl House was created by Dana Terrace, previously a storyboard artist for Gravity Falls and later a director on the 2017 DuckTales reboot. The series was set originally for a 2019 release,[7] but it was delayed for a 2020 release.[3][35] Terrace is the fourth woman to create a series for Disney Television Animation, after Pepper Ann with Sue Rose, Doc McStuffins with Chris Nee, and Star vs. the Forces of Evil with Daron Nefcy.

The show is animated by Rough Draft Korea, Sunmin Image Pictures, and Sugarcube Animation.[36][37] Terrace said that the visual style was inspired by paintings by Remedios Varo, John Bauer and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as Russian architecture.[38]

Season 1 is planned to consist of 19 episodes. [39]

On November 21, 2019, the show was renewed for a second season prior to the first season's debut.[6]

Music

In July 19, 2019, Terrace announced that T. J. Hill composed the series' score.[2] In January 10, 2020, Hill said that the score features "interesting and experimental sounds that [he] had a ton of fun cooking up".[40]

Marketing

On June 10, 2019, the trailer premiered during the show's Annecy 2019 panel. It was later uploaded to Disney Channel's YouTube channel a day later.[4][38]

The show's main title sequence was released on July 19, 2019, during San Diego Comic-Con 2019.[41]

The show released a sneak peek and an official end credit sequence on October 4, 2019, during a panel at New York Comic Con 2019.

Broadcast

The Owl House had its first international debut in Canada on January 12, 2020.[42] [43]South Korea on May 23, 2020. It was released on April 13, 2020 in Latin America. It will premiere in Southeast Asia in March 2020.It premiered on Disney Channel UK & Ireland on August 10, 2020 and will premiere on CITV in October 2020. It will premiere in France in 2020. It will premiere in Rai Gulp Italy in 2020. It will premiere in Spain in 2020. It will premiere in Netherlands in 2020.

Reception

Critical reception

The Owl House has received a positive reception from critics. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media said putting different elements together made the series quirky and likable. It was also described as well written and animated, and speculated that "[the show] likely will be one you will want to watch alongside your older kids and tweens, giving you the opportunity to discuss these kinds of themes as they come up."[44] LaughingPlace.com's critic praised the series for its unique visuals and voice acting, stating "The performances fit together beautifully as the diversity in their delivery showcases the characters’ unique roles in the Demon Realm."[45] Collider's Dave Trumbore gave the series' first episode a 4-star rating, feeling that the episode "[has] got a dark, yet darkly comic edge to the whole thing."[46]

LGBTQ+ representation

During its series run, The Owl House dropped hints and subtext that several characters within the show are LGBTQ+.[47][48]

In the episode "Understanding Willow", one of the main characters, Willow, is shown to have two dads.[49]

Series creator Dana Terrace first hinted at an upcoming reveal on July 7, 2020, when responding to a fan who posted a still from a promotion for the upcoming episode "Enchanting Grom Fright" on Twitter. The image showed one of the characters in the show, Amity, putting her hands on the shoulders of Luz, the show's main protagonist, and looking into her eyes.[50] Claiming "there is no heterosexual explanation for this", Terrace responded, "there really isn't".[51] The episode, written by Molly Ostertag, aired on August 8, 2020, and revealed that Amity wanted to ask Luz to go with her to "Grom," a version of prom. In previous episodes, Luz had shown interest in male characters but had begun to grow closer to Amity. Terrace confirmed on Twitter that the episode features a bisexual character, but didn't confirm whether this was Amity, Luz, or both, however as noted by Reiss Smith of PinkNews, many fans assumed this referred to Luz.[52] The two girls represent Disney's first animated LGBT+ female regular characters. At the culmination of the episode, Luz and Amity dance together while casting spells to defeat a demon. The animation supervisor for the show, Spencer Wan, referred to their intimate dance, which he storyboarded with Hayley Foster, as "the gay thing,"[53] saying it was his first opportunity to storyboard "anything even remotely queer."[54] The following day, he posted an animatic of the dance scene.[55]

In a tweet, Terrace described the challenges of putting LGBTQ+ characters in the show on Disney Channel due to restrictions, saying: "In [development] I was very open about my intention to put queer kids in the main cast. [...] When we were greenlit I was told by certain Disney leadership that I could NOT represent any form of bi or gay relationship on the Channel."[56] Disney later approved the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters in the show. Additionally, Terrace stated that creating characters for the show helped her come out as bisexual in 2017, and hoped the characters would create "positive vibes" for people in the future.[57] Later that night, Alex Hirsch, one of the voice actors and the creator of another Disney Channel production, Gravity Falls, chimed in, stating that the show has "explicitly queer" animated characters and lamented the challenges of getting LGBTQ representation in his own show.[58] Afterward, Hirsch referred to a still from the episode of Luz and Amity dancing, noting that if it had been attempted in 2012 it would have received an "inappropriate for channel" censor note from Disney calling to revise it. He concluded "this time, Disney- you did good."[59]

The same day, PFLAG praised the LGBTQ visibility in the series,[60] while GLAAD was excited by the "LGBTQ-inclusive storytelling" in the series.[61] Apart from this, Eden Riegel, the voice actor for Boscha in the show, described Luz and Amity as "explicitly queer leads in glorious love doing actual magic in a demon world."[62] Also that day, Chris Nee, creator of Doc McStuffins, made some remarks about the show, loving the show's queer representation, and noting that she "had to go to the mat to get my two mom episode of Doc,"[63] referring to the 2017 episode, "The Emergency Plan," which featured a "multiracial two-mom family, voiced by lesbian actors."[64]

On August 14, Terrace responded on Twitter to a Cartoon Brew story, by the site's associate editor, which emphasised within the headline that Disney executives had been opposed to the inclusion of queer characters on the show.[65] She clarified that her push for queer characters like Luz and Amity in The Owl House had "since been extremely supported" by executives, and that she was "excited for future shows."[66] She added that while she would never be "fully aligned with Disney as a company," she would not "fully blast" the executives who had fought for her.[67] She agreed with an assessment that the article was clickbait.[68] Owen Dennis of Infinity Train weighed in, calling the Cartoon Brew story an "unnecessary hit piece"[69] which didn't recognize the progress the show had made. Alex Hirsch criticized the headline, stating it should have been titled "first animated LGBTQ+ main characters break boundary for Disney," and argued that Cartoon Brew was "skipping over the good news in the present to hunt for bad news in the past."[70] He further stated that Disney TVA "deserves props for its recent changes towards inclusion," noting that Disney previously had only a few scattered side characters who were gay.[71] Cartoon Brew ultimately responded to Terrace's tweet, defending their piece, claiming that it "clearly tells the entire story."[72]

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External links

• Official website
• The Owl House on IMDb