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.
In November 2019, the series was renewed for a second season prior to the series premiere.
Plot
Luz 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. 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. 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 lets 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.
- 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. In mid-season finale, the elixir has lost its effect altogether. It can no longer cure her, much to her shock and fear. Unlike witches who join covens, she can use all the magic spells at her disposal. 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 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 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 certain events caused by Amity's parents forced Amity to cut ties with her, which caused great sadness and misery to both her and Amity.
- Issac Ryan Brown as Augustus "Gus", 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 before he was removed from the position by Principal Bump after the detention room incident.
- Mae Whitman as Amity Blight, 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 later shows some respect to Luz for 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 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. 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 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 and a conspiracy theorist.
- Cissy Jones as Lilith Clawthorne, Eda's estranged sister and leader of the Emperor's Coven. Though she still cares for her sister as she told Eda that the Emperor can cure her owl monster-type curse, she is not as powerful as her sister due to the restriction of the Emperor's Coven brand on her which limits her magic to the coven's associated magic.
- Parvesh Cheena as Tiblit Tibley "Tibbles" Grimhammer III, a night market stand owner and con artist who supplies Eda's curse elixir.
- Eden Riegel as Boscha, a three-eyed witch who is a bully to other students and Amity's "friend" and is obsessed with Penstagram and part of the potions class.
- 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 and members of the illusion track. They are troublemakers who are always making fun of her.
- Jorge Diaz as 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 as Emperor Belos, the ruler of the Boiling Isles and founder of the Emperor's Coven.
- Mela Lee as Kikimora, the boss of Lilith and Emperor Belos' personal assistant.
- Rachael MacFarlane as Mrs. Blight, the mother of Amity.
Crew
Art Department
- Ricky Cometa - Art Director
- Matthieu Cousin - Character Designer
- Marina Gardner - Character Designer
- Rhea Dadoo - Storyboard Revisionist
- Charlie Bryant - Storyboard Artist
- Stu Livingston - Storyboard Artist
- Steven Sugar - Lead Background Artist
- Jane Bak - Location Designer
- Sam Bosma - Location Designer
- Melanie Atwater - Prop Designer
Directors
- Tyler Chen - Creative Director
- Aminder Dhaliwal - Director
- Stu Livingston - Director
- Stephen Sandoval - Director
- Julia Pleasants - Casting Director
- Aaron Drown - Casting Director
- Eden Riegel - Dialogue Director
Producers
- Dana Terrace - Executive Producer
- Stephen Sandoval - Supervising Producer
- Wade Wisinski - Production Manager
- Anne Chunapongse - Post Production Manager
Episodes
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.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.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.