Review: The Loud House “Homeward Bound”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Eldest sister Lori returns from college during a gap year and starts looking for an apartment of her own, so LINCOLN and the others try to sabotage her efforts.

OUR TAKE

We’ve got another week of fifteen minute episodes to go through, and the one they kick this week off with is actually a pretty good one! I think this is the first episode I’ve covered that actually involves all of the siblings at once, but more than that, we have an episode that focuses on the oldest child, Lori. A couple seasons ago, the show decided to acknowledge that time exists and age all the characters up a bit. This was apparently mostly just bumping some characters up a grade or giving some of them new designs, but in the case of Lori, she went away to college. I have no idea if this means she was around less because I have no idea how much she was around before then, but regardless of that, the episode is about her being back now. This is actually a plot I can relate to to an extent, since I have an older sibling whose coming home between college years was a big deal, so I guess that shows how The Loud House can connect to people of all ages when it’s on its A-Game.

I never really wanted or had the ability to keep my older sister home, partly because I didn’t have nine other siblings to help me, but I also understood that she had her own life she was building and needed to get back to. That’s how it’s easy to tell that the goal of the younger ten Loud siblings is in the wrong, but we know it comes from an understandable and arguably wholesome place: missing their big sister who they don’t see as much anymore. And because of the episodic nature of the show, we know this plan isn’t going to work out, but to my surprise, Lori actually ends up living right next to the family house anyway by setting up in a neighbor’s garage. It became clear that the living situation was not working, so she’ll at least have a lot of space to herself. So yeah, that’s one out of four episodes down for this week and we start out with a pretty dang good one! This definitely sets the bar pretty high for the other three, so let’s see how they inevitably let me down! The Loud House! Starring LINCOLN. NOT Leo.