The Owl House

The Owl House is an animated fantasy-comedy series on Disney+ that follows Luz Noceda, a teenage human who stumbles through a magical portal to the Boiling Isles, a realm filled with witches, demons, and fantastical creatures. Taken under the wing of Eda Clawthorne, a rebellious witch, and her tiny demon companion King, Luz enrolls in Hexside School of Magic and Demonics to become a witch, despite lacking natural magical abilities. As she navigates this quirky, dangerous world, Luz uncovers secrets about the Isles, forms deep friendships, and challenges the oppressive rule of Emperor Belos.

The Owl House Review

After watching a handful of episodes across multiple seasons, I can comfortably say that you should avoid The Owl House at all costs. Of all the evil garbage out there, this is one of the most insidious tools being used to indoctrinate our children.

                   

From a pure entertainment perspective, it’s a quality program. The voice talent is top-notch, as is the direction. The stories are entertaining and relatively engaging, exploring common themes that children will undoubtedly enjoy. Its bright colors and bold animation are visually appealing and capture the eye, just as the whimsy will entrance them. All while the radical progressivism snaking its way through every story erodes their minds and souls.

PARENTAL NOTES

Could Be Doubled

• The “Age Appropriate” score in the Metrics section above is directly tied to the content here. You might wonder why the score is low when this section seems relatively mild. That’s because there’s a lot of overlap between what’s inappropriate and what’s woke. So, I chose not to duplicate the same examples in both.

TV-Y-FV

• That means this is a safe show for everyone, although it features some fantasy violence—fictionalized violence that goes a little beyond the normal TV-Y content.
  • Again, remember that I only watched a handful of episodes. It’s likely that the information below will be repeated throughout.

Out Damned Spot

• There’s a scene in which the lead character is on stage performing Shakespeare, and her character’s gut is split open— explosively spilling out fake entrails.

Maybe Get a Better Mentor

• The elder witch/mentor character is not exactly a good person. She tells the lead character, a child, that she “hides from the cops and ex-boyfriends.” In another episode, she tells her to “punch the first kid you see to establish dominance.”
  • She visits a tavern and sits at the bar, though she only drinks from a juice box.

Born to the Dark

• The show is super demon-heavy. Some of them are fairly disturbing-looking.
• The idea of making a dark pact with a demon is made light of.

Nothing Says TV-Y Like Randy Teens

• The main character, when talking excitedly about the possibilities at her new school, says, “…and maybe meet a hot yet vulnerable upperclassman.”

Safe for All Ages

• There’s a flashback in which we see the main character’s now deceased father get viciously attacked by a creature that claws one of his eyes out of his face.
  • We see a glimpse of blood as he grasps his face in pain.
• There’s a lot of romantic relationship stuff. Kids and adults dating (not each other) and breaking up, etc.
• An innocuous-looking pixie approaches a character and transforms into a demonic-looking monster while screaming, “Give me your skin!”

WOKE REPORT

Alternative Lifestyles

• Being “different” and celebrating differences has long been a narrative tool across genres and formats, but it has arguably been used most frequently in teen-focused storytelling. What makes The Owl House woke is that every instance and utterance is overt LGBTQ+ normalization code.
  • Common phrases, such as “nobody should be punished for being who they are,” are used throughout.
  • The show refers to both male and female magic users as “witches.”
  • They paint conformity to ALL norms as toxic.
• There are no fewer than two mentally ill characters who believe themselves to be a non-existent gender.
  • Their status is so subtly introduced that I missed it in both of their first episodes and had to rewatch them— and I was looking for it. The showrunners ingeniously chose to introduce each of them while they were part of a group, so the ridiculous usage of plural third-person pronouns, combined with the exaggerated fantasy-speak when referencing a single individual, doesn’t stand out.
  • One of the “non-binary” characters was in a romantic relationship with one of the main secondary characters.
• The main character and a prominent secondary character, both girls and children, spend one and a half seasons awkwardly pining for one another, only to end up as a romantic couple.
• Another secondary character has a crush on an unspecified “they.”

Demons Ain’t So Bad

• The left loves to infantilize and mainstream the demonic.
  • Most of the program takes place in a land called the Demon Realm.
  • One of the main characters is a cute and quirky little creature who is also the king of the demons.
  • The school for Magics and Demonics is run by a very demonic-looking demon.
  • Multiple episodes feature misunderstood, but otherwise good and kind demons.
• One episode actively replaces Hell with Heck, saying, “We’re in Heck, people. Let’s have some fun.”