Is The Doomies too scary for a 7-year-old?

Depends on the 7-year-old. The monsters joke around as much as they menace, but they do corner the kids in real peril. Common Sense Media pegs it at 8+, and that matches what's on screen. For a scare-sensitive kid, watch the first episode together before deciding.

Is The Doomies like Gravity Falls?

It's the most direct heir Disney has made: a French seaside town instead of the Oregon woods, a hidden underworld instead of a mystery shack, monster-of-the-week episodes plus a season-long secret. Critics agree the world-building runs shallower, but the tone, humor, and spook level are the same family.

How many episodes of The Doomies are there?

One season of 22 half-hour episodes, all released on Disney+ on June 26, 2026.

The Doomies – WISE Score & Parent Review | Screenwise

The Doomies

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84%

WISE Score

8.7

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Two monster-hunting best friends crack open a doorway to the underworld in the spooky, funny Disney+ series that fills the Gravity Falls-shaped hole.

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TV-PG, 2026

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8.7

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Screenwise Verdict

The Doomies is the closest Disney has come to Gravity Falls since Gravity Falls: a spooky small-town mystery with a monster of the week, a bigger serialized secret, and two leads worth rooting for.

Bobby and Romy are 13-year-old best friends in Ouimper, a French seaside town. They hunt monsters for their social channel, and one bad night they open a gateway to an underworld called Subterra. The monsters menace first and get defused with jokes second. Real peril, no gore.

All 22 half-hour episodes dropped at once, so a kid who latches on will want to marathon it. Critics' one consistent knock is that the world-building runs shallower than Gravity Falls and the episode formula wears thin when binged. Watched a few at a time, it holds up.

One conversation worth having before you press play: Bobby and Romy chase online fame, and the show is softer on that than most parents would be.

Age Fit

Rated TV-PG; Common Sense Media says 8+. The sweet spot is 8 to 13: old enough to enjoy getting spooked, young enough that a chosen-one mystery still feels enormous. If Gravity Falls went over well at your house, this will too. If it was too much, wait a year.

WISE Breakdown

Wholesome

The spine of the show is a durable best-friendship: Bobby's caution and Romy's nerve balance each other, and the town's odd allies pull together against the monsters. The fame-chasing premise cuts the other way; the show rewards the kids' follower-hunting more than it questions it.

Imaginative

An invented underworld with its own rules, a French seaside setting rare in American kids'TV, and new creature designs nearly every episode. The serialized chosen-one mystery invites the theory-making between episodes that Gravity Falls fans remember.

Safe

Rated TV-PG with a Common Sense Media age of 8+. Monsters create genuine peril but there are no weapons, blood, or lasting harm, and comic relief defuses most scares. Language stays at the 'butt' and 'doofus' level. The main caution is thematic: kids chasing social-media fame with soft consequences.

Enriching

Kids get a model of complementary friendship and of facing fear anyway, plus a glimpse of French coastal culture. The mystery rewards attention and prediction, but the show is built to entertain first; reviewers found the world-building and emotional depth thinner than its Gravity Falls lineage.

Parent Info

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Why It Might Be Great

A season-long mystery arc that rewards attention and theory-making, in a kids' TV landscape where most shows reset every episode
Bobby and Romy's friendship carries it: a cautious kid and a bold one who need each other, and the show lets both be right at different times
Monsters scary enough to matter and funny enough to sleep after, the same balance Gravity Falls struck
Made by Xilam, the French studio behind the Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body, and the craft shows in the action scenes and end-credits animation

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What to Watch For

The monsters put Bobby and Romy in genuine peril; escapes land every time, but scare-sensitive kids under 8 will want company
The leads hunt monsters partly for followers, and consequences for the phone obsession stay subtle; expect a tween to read it as aspirational
Mild language on the 'butt' and 'doofus' level, plus characters trading threats played for laughs
The all-at-once season drop invites marathons, and the monster-of-the-week rhythm gets repetitive without breaks

Conversation Starters

"Bobby and Romy film their monster hunts for followers. Would you keep hunting if nobody watched?"
"Which creature from Subterra would be the worst one loose in our town, and what would you do about it?"
"Romy charges in and Bobby hangs back. Which one are you, and when has the other way worked out better?"
"The gateway opened because of one mistake. When has a small mistake of yours snowballed into something big?"

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