The Locke kids are a lot of things, but often it’s hard to differentiate if they’re incredibly brave or grievously stupid. Locke & Key will finally be back on our screens on August 10 for season three. But no instead Kinsey takes a dude on a first date inside her brain. Their father spent their whole lives telling them how horrible this house is. The kids should be much more afraid of these keys and of Well Lady. The shift must’ve been intentional, but it does create a disjuncture between the characters and the viewer that can’t entirely be explained away by their age. The Netflix show is more of an occasionally scary fantasy story. The original Locke & Key is a horror comic. A few major plot points happen so quickly and randomly that I thought they must be flashbacks that would be explained later. Many episodes lack clear stakes, and suffer for it: Bode’s demonic Home Alone dynamic with Well Lady is enjoyable, but can only raise the tension so far. It’s a show that’s clearly meant to be binged in a sitting or two. Other aspects of Locke & Key do feel befuddled, though. The streaming service recast all the characters except for Jackson Robert Scott’s Bode and added Meredith Averill ( The Haunting of Hill House) as a showrunner, presumably because she has a good track record with shows about children with grim family histories living in otherworldly homes. Locke & Key languished for a few further months before being picked up by Netflix in 2018. When that didn’t work out either, it landed at Hulu in 2017, which passed on the pilot despite initially praising it.
After that show fell through, the story almost became a trilogy of low-budget horror movies at Universal in 2014. In 2010, only two years after the first comic’s release, Fox announced it was adapting it for television.
LOCKE AND KEY SERIES
The show is based on a popular comic book series of the same name by Stephen King’s son, Joe Hill. People have been waiting for Locke & Key for a long time.
It’s woolly and uneven, smart, and a little unbelievable. With no adult supervision even possible, Key House becomes a sort of risky, professor-less DIY Hogwarts as the Locke siblings try to battle the menacing villain, Well Lady, back into her cage. Once inside, the youngest, Bode (played by Jackson Robert Scott, who It fans may recognize as the unfortunate Georgie) sets off a chain of alternately wondrous and terrifying magical events. The remaining parent, Nina Locke, decides to move her children-Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode-across the country to her husband’s ancestral home, Key House, which he notoriously hated. Locke & Key joins the Lockes as they attempt to heal (or escape) from a family tragedy: the sudden, violent death of their father.
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