The Owl House is an animated show on the Disney Channel and created by Dana Terrence. The show premiered on January 10, 2020 and since then has receive tons of praise about it’s plot and it’s LGBT+ representation. It also having Disney’s first same-sex couple that have leading roles.
I watched this show right after watching a clip of it on YouTube. Ever since then, I’ve been obsessed with this show. With every rewatch I see little details that I didn’t see before. I honestly really enjoy this show and it became one of my favorites T.V shows in general.
The main cast are Luz Noceda (voiced by Sarah-Nicole Robles), who has discovered a whole new world named The Boiling Isles and meets Eda Clawthorne (Wendie Malick) a witch and her roommate King (Alex Hirsch) who is a demon.
The first season of The Owl House is meant to show us this new world that Luz discovers and it does it really well. Each episode shows us a bit more of “The Boiling Isles” and we get to learn more about it as well such as what it contains. The pacing of it is really good, not too fast but also isn’t slow with the pacing. Every part of the Isles is named after “The Titan’s” body part which is really clever.
The animation of this show is amazing, all the backgrounds are so pretty even if it’s supposed to be an ugly landscape. It just captures you in this world and makes it come to life. Which can be a hard task for most television series.
Plus it’s not just the backgrounds that are pleasing to the eye, the fight scenes in it are breathtaking. The animation becomes so fluid that you’d want to watch it at least 10 more times.
Character development is one of the biggest things this show excels at. Luz Noceda is such an enjoyable protagonist to follow around. You want her to go back home and be safe with her mom. She starts as a naive 14 year old but as she goes through the challenges of the show, you can see how much she not only matured but also grew in her witching skills.
The relationships she makes are fun to watch. The friends she made at school, how she changed Amity’s view on life and her mother and daughter relationship she made with Eda. It’s all so natural and develops at a natural pace.
Another thing The Owl House excels at is storytelling. Around the fourth episode “The Intruder” we already get a darker theme than the previous episodes. It gives off Gravity Falls and Steven Universe vibes from it. The more it goes on the more you see it’s true story, Emperor Belos’s trying to stop wild magic. Which Eda herself performs.
When Eda gets captured, it’s honestly heartbreaking and we can understand how bad Luz feels about it. Once Luz goes all out with the magic Eda taught her, and saves her, it feels like a victory to whoever is watching it.
Overall, The Owl House brought something new to the table of PG shows. It doesn’t treat it’s viewers as little kids, it is honestly a show for everyone. It shows characters you can relate to. The plot sounds like a story that has been told hundreds of times but it is truly unique. It really is a must watch to people who love stories with well thought out characters, plot and amazing visuals.
Laysha Vargas-Guizar
Laysha Vargas-Guizar is a writer in Journalism 2. Editor of Arts & Entertainment, they host the Everything Entertainment Podcast along with their co-host Aiden Lupian.