The Owl House

The Owl House
Genre	Comedy Fantasy
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	T. J. Hill
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Dana Terrace
Producers	Wade Wisinski Stephen Sandoval (supervising producer)
Editors	Kevin Locarro Jenny Jordan (assistant editor) Rachel Vine (story editor)
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Disney Television Animation
Original release
Network	Disney Channel
Release	January 10, 2020 – present (present)

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. In November 2019, the show was renewed for a second season in advance of the first season's premiere.

Plot

Luz is a teenage human girl who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to another world instead of going to Reality Check Camp. 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 an adorable demon warrior named King. Despite not having magical abilities and having to pose as a witch due to the prejudice towards humans, 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.

Cast

Main

• Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda, a 14-year-old Dominican-American 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, wishing to become a witch. 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.
• Wendie Malick as Edalyn "Eda" Clawthorne, the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles, Luz's teacher, and a wanted criminal for selling human items and not joining a coven. 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 on her as she revealed the curse is getting stronger as time passes. In mid-season finale, the elixir has lost its effect altogether due to the curse having grown too powerful. It can no longer cure her, much to her shock and fear.
• Alex Hirsch as King, a small dog-like demon warrior and Eda's roommate who is the self-proclaimed King of Demons.
  • Hirsch also voices Hooty, the witty sentient barn owl-headed doorknocker of the titular house.

Recurring

• Tati Gabrielle as Willow, a student at Hexside and Luz and Gus’s friend who can do plant magic. Originally, Willow was placed in the abomination class until her use of plant magic caused her to be transferred to the plant class.
• Issac Ryan Brown as Gus, a student at Hexside and Luz and Willow’s friend who can do illusion magic. 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 what happened to the detention room.
• Mae Whitman as Amity Blight, a top student at Hexside who is an abomination expert. She started out at Luz's rival at the beginning, but later started showing some respect to her. Like Luz, she is a big fan of the novel series called The Good Witch Azura.
• Bumper Robinson as Hieronymus Bump, 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 which is shown in its information pamplet.
• JB Blanc as Professor Abominable, a teacher who teaches students how to make abominations and is carried around Hexside by his own Abomination.
• Dana Terrace as Tiny Nose, a small round creature with a prominent nose.
• Cissy Jones as Lilith Clawthorne, Eda's sister and leader of the Emperor's Coven.
• Parvesh Cheena as Tiblit Tibley "Tibbles" Grimhammer III, a night market stand owner who supplies Eda's curse elixir.
• Eden Riegel as Boscha, a three-eyed witch who is Amity's friend and is obsessed with Penstagram.
• Isabella Rossellini as the Bat Queen, a former palisman formerly owned by a giant that takes care of her kids and other forgotten and broken palismans.
• Erica Lindbeck and Ryan O'Flanagan as Emira and Edric Blight, Amity's older twin siblings. They are troublemakers who are always making fun of her.
• Jorge Diaz as Mattholomule, Luz and Gus's new rival. 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

Episodes

{{Episode list

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date	Prod. code	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
Luz Noceda, a girl who loves fantasy, is forced by her mother Camilia (Elizabeth Grullon) to go to Reality Check Camp, 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
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
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
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. King is left to edit the information about the Snaggleback.
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
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 Bellows' 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
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 surprisingly 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
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 in 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, Amity reluctantly 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. Luz then gives Eda an empty-nester book, seeing that she and King were sad to hear them leave.
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
Luz wishes she could be like Eda and magic her problems away, 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 & Cissy 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 Luz ends up with cleaning duty.
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
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.
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
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"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	July 11, 2020 (2020-07-11)	TBA	N/A
12	"Adventures in the Elements"	Sabrina Cotugno	Story by : Charley Feldman, Zach Marcus, John Bailey Owen, Dana Terrace & Rachel Vine Teleplay by : Owen & Terrace	July 18, 2020 (2020-07-18)	N/A
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 to train. To Luz's shock, Amity is there as well being trained by Emira and Edric who are making 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 wand to teach herself fire magic. She ends up angering the Slitherbeast, a yeti-like creature who kidnaps Eda, Emira, and Edric. Upset that Luz used up the power in her wand, Amity puts her in a cage to protect her while she rescues them. Luz suddenly has an epiphany and learns ice magic by creating a 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.
13	"The First Day"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	July 25, 2020 (2020-07-25)	TBA	N/A
14	"Understanding Willow"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	August 1, 2020 (2020-08-01)	TBA	N/A

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 Danightigale Terrace.

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)
King was changing channels on his crystal ball, until he stops when Principal Bump is seen. Bump is seen in a parody of 1980s commercials. In it, he introduces the viewer to Hexside School of Magic and Demotics. He tours the viewer about his school and every time he mentions apart 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)
3	"Paint Scare!"	April 18, 2020 (2020-04-18)
4	"Art Lessons with Luz"	April 25, 2020 (2020-04-25)
5	"Coven Lovin Soap Opera"	May 2, 2020 (2020-05-02)

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, but it was delayed for a 2020 release. 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. Terrace said that the visual style was inspired by paintings by Remedios Varo, John Bauer and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as Russian architecture.

Season 1 is planned to consist of 19 episodes.

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

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.

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

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.South Korea on May 23, 2020 It will premiere in Southeast Asia in 2020. It will premiere in United Kingdom in 2020. It will premiere in France in 2020. It will premiere in Rai Gulp and Disney+ 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." 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." 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."

External links

• Official website
• The Owl House at IMDb