The Owl House

***The Owl House*** is an animated fantasy-comedy, created by Dana Terrace. The series premiered on January 10, 2020 on Disney Channel.

## Overview

The series follows self-assured teenage girl Luz, who discovers a portal to another realm where humans are not well-liked.

Luz partners with a rebellious witch named Eda and her diminutive demon sidekick, King, who was indeed once a king and is searching for a way to restore his titles and glory. Despite not possessing any magical abilities of her own, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda's apprentice and learning the ways of magic.

Picking up immediately after season one, season two follows Luz looking for a way to return to the Human Realm, while Eda confronts her inner demons, and King searching for the truth about his past. Luz also has to thwart the schemes of the Boiling Isles' Emperor Belos, who harbors a dislike against wild magic and plots to unite the mortal and demon realms and destroy all wild magic forever.

## Cast

All the main characters are namely arranged and introduced in the intro and poster.

* Sarah-Nicole Robles as Luz Noceda
* Mae Whitman as Amity Blight
* Tati Gabrielle as Willow Park
* Issac Ryan Brown as Gus Porter
* Wendie Malick as Eda Clawthorne
* Cissy Jones as Lilith Clawthorne
* Alex Hirsch as King, Hooty
* Mela Lee as Kikimora
* Zeno Robinson as Hunter
* Matthew Rhys as Emperor Belos

*Owlbert is the non-voiced character.*

## Production

*The Owl House* was created by Dana Terrace, previously worked on *Gravity Falls* as a storyboard artist and later a director on the 2017 *DuckTales* reboot. The show was originally scheduled for release in 2019, but was delayed to early 2020. The animation is provided by Rough Draft Korea, Sunmin Image Pictures, and Sugarcube Animation.

The visual design of the show was inspired by various European painters including Remedios Varo, John Bauer, and definitely Hieronymus Bosch, who was best known for his surrealistic depictions of hell. Dana Terrace also took a lot of inspiration from Russian architecture as well as medieval church art.

The second season, consisting of 21 episodes, will begin airing on June 12, 2021. It was renewed for a third season ahead of the season two premiere and was later confirmed by Dana Terrace to not only be shorter, but also be the last season. Dana later admitted on a Reddit AMA this was because the show "did not fit the Disney brand."

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## Trivia

* This is the first Disney work with an LGBT protagonist. While previous Disney works had LGBT characters, all of them were side characters.
	+ Amity is the first openly gay Disney character, as previous gay Disney characters had their sexuality implied rather than shown.
	+ Luz is the first openly bisexual Disney lead character.
	+ Dana Terrace confirmed Luz is bisexual, while Amity is confirmed to be a lesbian.
	+ "Eda's Requiem" introduced Raine Whispers, who is confirmed to be the first non-binary character in a Disney work.
* With this series, Dana Terrace is the sixth woman to create a series for Disney Television Animation, after Sue Rose (*Pepper Ann*), Chris Nee (*Doc McStuffins*), Daron Nefcy (*Star vs. the Forces of Evil*), Krista Tucker (*Fancy Nancy*), and Nicole Dubuc (*The Rocketeer*).
* This is the second series where Alex Hirsch is featured in a magical setting, opposite to his past series, *Gravity Falls*, which is magical but paranormal.
	+ He also voices demons such as King in this series or Bill Cipher from *Gravity Falls*.
	+ It also featured a kid (Luz in this setting, Dipper and Mabel Pines in *Gravity Falls*) who travels into a place where it was alive with magic.
* The first letter of each episode title in each season spells out a phrase:
	+ Season 1: "A witch loses a true way."
	+ Season 2: "Seek the key fea..."
* One scene of each episode also contains a freeze-frame of an eye code in Cyrillic alphabet in the background and reads a sentence:
	+ Season 1: "Two witches torn apart, now alone. Two Hearts of Stone. A curse of feather and mud, a betrayal of blood".
	+ Season 2: "Seething Seas And Puppet Strings, He No Longer Dreams Of..."
* Due to Disney Channel in Italy shutting down prior to the series' premiere in Italy, the series ended up premiering its entire first Season in Italy on February 5, 2021, on Disney+, making this the first time a Disney Channel series has had its premiere on Disney+ instead of Disney Channel.
* This is the second animated Disney series where the main character of the show gets wound up in another world. The first being Anne from *Amphibia* (later Sasha and Marcy).
* In 2021, it won the Peabody Award for "Children's & Youth Programming".
* This was the last Disney animated series to premiere before COVID-19 began in the US.

## External Links

* The Owl House Wiki
* Disney Wiki