Instead, it is Eden who becomes the butt of the joke as a villain, allowing Dodge to become as threatening as his comics counterpart. A big reason why this works is that the show finally lets Dodge be as terrifyingly evil as possible, without leaning into absurdist humor. In many ways, this is the Order of the Phoenix of Locke & Key, with the story being notably darker, characters being oblivious as to why, and evil building an army of its own. A trip to a character's head becomes something out of Nightmare on Elm Street, giant spiders crawl up on the Lockes, and people die gruesome deaths (while still not graphic enough that young viewers can't watch the show). The season as a whole feels darker, scarier, and more dangerous. Likewise, Duncan (Aaron Ashmore) gets a bigger role, with a heartbreaking story about what he lost when his memories were stolen from him as a kid, resulting in the best subplot of the season.īut the horror doesn't stop at the worries of becoming older. It's hard not to see Tyler’s efforts to make sure Jackie experiences as much magic as possible before she turns 18 as an allegory for dementia and the desperation that comes with knowing a loved one’s mind will slowly slip away.
No matter how powerful the keys are, there is no beating the passing of time, and Locke & Key finds plenty of emotional gravitas to explore in the characters' desperation to stop this from happening. The moment when an adult's brain is rewired to ignore the magic around them is treated as a death scene in a slasher film, with sound design that cues you in like the theme music for a horror villain, and extreme close-ups that show the terror on the characters' faces as they get reprogrammed against their will. If the first season changed the phantasmagorical and horrific tone of the comic in favor of Harry Potter-like whimsy, then this one trades Hogwarts for Narnia, as the first season focused on the terrifying realization that, eventually, you will grow up and forget about the magic in the world, and also the special keys around Keyhouse.
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However, the series struggles to instill any real terror from its main villain due to its focus on whimsy over horror." IGN's David Griffin gave Season 1 of Locke & Key a 7, writing that it "hits the mark when it comes to its slick visuals and a focus on the powerful bonds within the Locke family, anchored by an endearing performance from Jackson Robert Scott as Bode.
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Thinking they are free from evil demons, Tyler (Connor Jessup), Kinsey (Emilia Jones), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) now spend most of the season dealing with a different problem - growing up. The demon Dodge managed to trick the Locke family into thinking they had sent them back to the hell they came from, but instead took the form of their friend Gabe (Griffin Gluck), who now has a henchwoman in Eden (Hallea Jones), who got infected by a demon at the end of the season, unbeknownst to the Lockes. Picking up three months after the end of the previous season, evil has won, and they are not alone. But when it remembers to go back to the source material, the season ends up feeling rushed and undercooked, with yet another bittersweet installment that has some great ideas and a not-so-great execution. When the new season runs with those changes, it is a compelling, exciting, and at times even poignant show about memories and the fears of growing up, with an exquisitely despicable villain and some great set pieces.
Yes, the characters were perfectly cast and Keyhouse was a character unto itself, but the tone was so different that it lost some of the charm and excitement of the original - even if some of the changes to the story hinted at a better Season 2. When Netflix finally released the first season of Locke & Key after nearly a decade of failed adaptations, it felt like a bittersweet victory.
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