The Doomies - Season 1
Watch on Disney+
Episodes: 22 twenty two minute episodes
Rated TV-PG
THIS IS AN ONGOING REVIEW. I WILL UPDATE IT AS I WATCH EACH EPISODE. THIS ARTICLE INCLUDES EPISODES 1-11.
In the sleepy seaside town of Quimper, France, best friends Bobby and Romy are bored out of their minds and desperate for something exciting to happen. To add a little adventure to their lives, they run a social media channel investigating the town's creepy myths and urban legends. But when they uncover an ancient magical rune, they accidentally unleash the very horrors they've been chasing. As monsters swarm the streets and panic spreads through Quimper, two ordinary kids find themselves in an extraordinary race to save their hometown (and everyone they love) before it's too late.
Themes:
Best friends, myth vs reality, legends, influencers, monsters, tourist destinations, social media, senior citizens, cell phones, Subterra, conspiracies, the end of the world, people’s souls, mortal danger, occult, magic, trust, faith in someone, responsibility, incompetence, failing, bravery, family, astral projection, the grannies, teamwork.
Language:
Darn - 1
Words and phrases like “what the…” crop up. One character says, “stop talking bull” to some cows.
Minor name-calling, such as maniac and fools.
Stuff to be aware of:
Gross -
Episode One:
One character who has a rash is asked if he has “peed on it.”
Episode Two:
There is a swamp monster that kind of resembles a fish. It grows odd-looking veins out of its back.
When the monster dries out, it shrivels up and looks kind of like a frog mummy.
The monster gets squished and melts.
Episode Three:
There are bug/leach-like monsters that get crushed during the episode. Whenever they are killed, green guts spew everywhere. Sometimes there are little organ-like bits in the aftermath.
Episode Five and Six:
Briefly, a rotting zombie-like shark is seen. Its ribs can be seen
There is an army of zombie fish. Their ribs and gross insides can be seen.
When fish zombies bite characters, this character grows gills. Their eyes glow, and they look very zombie-like.
Episodes Nine and Ten:
There is a weird and slightly gross scene involving a man splitting in two and becoming a second man. He grows extra toes, he removes one of his eyes, and grows extra limbs.
Characters dig up the skeleton.
A character throws up glowing slime-looking stuff.
A bunch of bones get sucked into a portal.
Episode Eleven:
A character has teeth marks from a bite on her arm.
LGBTQ -
Episode Four:
There is a short advertisement for a dating app that shows two male-looking characters meeting, hugging, and seemingly in a relationship.
Episode Ten:
A teen girl is said to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Kids chant about her having a boyfriend and then change their tune to her having a girlfriend.
Religion - There is a heavy amount of spells, characters dressed as priests and druids, and witchcraft.
Scary- There are multiple monsters, ghosts, and creepy things in this series. Here are a few to be aware of.
Episode One:
A ghostly hand comes out of a mire and tries to pull a kid into the water. The hand gets chopped off the arm by a stick.
One character says, “they are hungry for your soul” in a joking way. There is a continuous theme about evil monsters stealing people’s souls.
Multiple times, creepy voices say things.
Creepy faces show up in unexpected places like pancakes and a pinball machine.
Episode Three:
Starts with a haunted-looking house that has a group of children inside who all talk together at once and have glowing eyes.
A character’s hand turns into a monster-looking hand that attacks people and does annoying things.
A monster that looks like a leech mixed with a crab jumps out of an egg and latches itself onto a character’s face.
Episode Four:
There are vampires in this episode that are a bit creepy-looking. When the camera zooms in on them, they make a terrible scream sound and bare their teeth.
Episodes Five and Six:
There is a zombie villain with glowing eyes.
Episodes Seven and Eight:
There is a woman who casts a spell that changes her. You see her shadow changing. Fingers pop, and teeth grow into fangs.
A crab is sucked into a tar-like goo. A slime monster takes on the crab’s form, making it look like a blob with crab-like features. It has a huge vertical mouth full of sharp teeth.
There is a woman who looks like a character’s mom from behind. When she turns around, she has glowing eyes, a tail, sharp teeth, and green skin.
This demon-looking mom screams, climbs on walls, makes items fly around the room, and does several “horror movie” things. She refers to herself as “we,” and she says she “eats people.”
Episodes Nine and Ten:
The demon mom from episode eight is seen briefly in episode nine but turns into a demon and is destroyed in a flash of light by the giant scary hand that has been seen in other episodes.
Shadow monsters attack the main characters. Sometimes the shadows are of the characters, and sometimes their form looks like Venus flytraps with sharp teeth and vine-like tentacles.
A character is demon-possessed. He floats, has glowing eyes, and talks with an evil-sounding voice. Purple bleeds from his eyes and covers his body. It is very intense for a kid’s show.
There is an evil, scary-looking bird-like druid that is missing an eye and conjures up skeletal-like ghosts.
This same evil character is seen a lot in episode ten.
Characters get sucked into a portal by ghostly hands and disappear. Later, another hand grabs a character and tries to pull them in.
Episode Eleven:
Characters turn into werewolves. The scene evokes more modern, gross takes on people turning into wolves. Teeth grow in, and legs turn the wrong way to look like a dog’s back legs. It is more than I have seen in an “animated kid’s show,” however, it is still toned down compared to horror movies.
Sexual - There is a joke made about someone’s body changing and how that is part of growing up.
Episode Seven & Eight:
A man is seen shirtless.
A teen boy is seen shirtless.
Episode Eleven:
Characters try to set a female character up with a male character. The female character knocks the male character out, and someone jokes, “see its just like asking him out on a date.”
Violence - There are multiple scenes with humans fighting monsters; nothing too graphic.
Episode Four:
Bat-looking vampire monsters are killed with a stake through the heart. Multiple ones get stabbed and vanish into a poof of smoke. There isno blood.
A character mentions that a vampire ate a boy.
Episode Seven:
A monster is set on fire, and its shadow can be seen burning.
Seeing It With Your Family
I will update this area as I watch more episodes. The main thing to be aware of with this show is the scary element. This show is a bit more intense than the monsters from Scooby-Doo. There is also an occult aspect with talk of “stealing souls,” seances, and the Necronomicon appears as a gag. Druids, vampires
What I Thought
COMING SOON!