Even the AV Club thinks The Owl House is disappointing

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>There are two different shows that are somewhat working against each other in The Owl House. There’s the show about a powerful, exiled, cursed witch who’s being hunted by her sister and the “State,” the magic-controlling government whose leader wants to use her for something nefarious. And there’s the show about an insecure, supposedly-weird girl who, through the power of her over-wrought, stubborn determination, is able to alter the student dynamics and strict rules and decorum of a magic school beholden to that government’s ideals. The narratives here merge only in fits and starts, mostly concerning that stratified coven system, which for eighteen episodes felt too vague and ill-defined to really seem like it mattered; after all, after some human randomly appeared and did some stuff, she somehow fast-tracked herself into a multidisciplinary magic track that didn’t even exist, disrupting what seemed to be ages of Boiling Isles tradition.
>It happens so fast, with such little pushback. What even is this whole world all about? King has to narrate the entire backstory of the Boiling Isles at the beginning of “Young Blood, Old Souls,” to fill us in, which feels like it comes way too late in the season and which really raises more questions than it answers. It also inadvertently exposes the overall flaws of a show that, at least, presents an enjoyable, tense, and intriguing finale.