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Episode 1: Kidnappings Okay as Long as You’re Cool
We start off in a magic cave, which is home to a magic snake who is then killed by a witch with a magic bazooka. But none of that really matters. What does matter is that our main character, Luz, is in the principal’s office for bringing live snakes to school. You’re probably wondering where she got said snakes, but the show instead tries to distract us by showing us other equally awful things like Luz over acting and Luz showing the back sides of her eyelids.
The principal is tired of her antics and decides the best thing for everyone is if Luz goes to depression camp, a camp that teaches children that real life is devoid of fun and that you should just give up hopes and dreams.
“But mom,” says Luz. “I don’t want depression. It’s all coarse and rough and gets everywhere”.
“It won't be so bad,” Camila says, while abusively giving her daughter hugs and kisses. “Some of the worst things in life can lead you to the best things in life”.
Luz is so upset by this that she throws her favorite book in the trash can. She waits two seconds before she wants it back, but it’s already been stolen by trash pirates. She spots the thief and chases it into an abandoned cabin which turns into the pirate's lair. That’s where we meet the head of the operation, Eda, who is also known as the mother of owls. She tries to burn Luz’s book which throws the teen out in the open.
Then we learn a cool fact: Luz is not in Kansas anymore. No she is actually in a world called the demon realm which is basically hell if it was made into a children’s tv show. Luz shows off her human expertise and wows Eda, so owl mom decides to kidnap a literal child and force her to break into a prison. What a caring and loving mentor who is definitely better than Camila in every way.
That's when the police show up. They try to arrest Eda for too many reasons to count and try to arrest Luz for breathing, but then Eda and Luz hop on Eda’s staff. They fly away and then the guards just kinda give up. We’ll get her next time, I guess.
Eda takes Luz to the owl house where we meet the guard dog, who is actually a demonic bird tube. We also meet our final main character. King is a cat-like demon who used to be the king of demons until his crown was legally stolen by cops. He is also very precious and such a very good boy, and he suspiciously sounds like Bill Cipher.
The three of them go to prison where Eda decides letting the two kids go off by themselves is a great idea. Luz then learns yet another cool fact: you can be arrested on the boiling isle for being weird, so being a criminal there is like totally justified.
“Wow!” Luz thinks. “This place is much better than depression camp”
They find King’s crown only to find it’s just from burger king (this isn’t sarcasm. That actually happens) and in comes the warden. He asks Eda to marry him so they can become the ultimate power couple and she responds by spitting on his face. Luz then tries her first attempt at murder. It fails, so she releases all the prisoners and starts a riot instead. Warden Wrath is taken down, despite the only prisoners in the riot being nerds and geeks, and team owl house go back home.
Owl mom opens the portal to let Luz go home. Luz stops her, saying that she lives in the owl house now without paying rent or asking the house owner's permission. Eda is okay with it though, as long as she can get some child labor out of it. The episode ends with Luz falling asleep just to trick everyone into thinking the series is a dream.
Episode 2 Owl Mom’s Wisdom
We start with Luz waking up and finding out her trip to the isles was in fact not a dream. After getting jump-scared by the literal house itself, Luz goes to owl mom. She informs her that Luz is now her slave and that she is the owner of multiple businesses. Also, we are introduced to something called apple blood, which is later perceived as alcoholic, yet we also see students at Hexide drinking it…Anyways, Luz’s first chore is to deliver potions to the shadiest people on the isle, and instead going with her herself, Eda sends her tiny cat-sized roommate to stop her from being eaten.
So, as you’d expect, Luz is nearly eaten on multiple occasions, and she begins to wonder if she made the right choice of not going to depression camp. Then they find their last delivery is to a Gandalf wanna be a giant castle. He has an actual name, but no one in the fandom even remotely cares so I’ll just call him Randalf. Randalf hands Luz a map that shows her Excalibur and she decides to follow it. But first some wise words from the mother of owls.
“This is stupid and so are you”.
Luz doesn’t listen to Eda’s warning and decides to go on an adventure. She finds Disney's version of Thunderclan camp, and a really hot witch emerges from the fountain. It turns out he’s a teen prince from Angstmore (No, that was not a joke), and he’s there to accompany the chosen one. He tells her his edgy backstory before the two of them run into a troll cat. He has a riddle for Luz that threatens to end her quest.
“What’s my name?”.
“You’re a one-off character, so nobody cares” says Luz, obviously correct.
Luz also meets Navi but that's not important. What is important is that Luz finds the grove with Excalibur. Except Excalibur wasn’t Excalibur. It was a trick! It turns out Randalf was actually a puppeteer who captured Luz to get to Eda. This is surely something we’ll never see anybody do again.
Eda falls for said trap and Randalf tries to get Luz to betray her for some reason….He doesn’t really need Luz anymore. All he really needs to do is kill Eda…But unlike Eda, Luz doesn’t fall for his trap.
“This is stupid!” She cried. “And you’re stupid”.
She then proceeds to stab Randalf with a plastic sword that's somehow sharp enough to break through flesh. He turns into a tiny little squid man, that we then see Eda brutally eat alive. Hooray, I guess.
The episode ends with Luz, King, and Eda staring at the giant corpse they live on. Owl mom decides to once again share her wisdom.
“Don’t chase trauma. The trauma will surely come to you”.