Locke & Key

  • 22 Feb - 28 Feb, 2020
  • Mag The Weekly
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After a long journey from the paneled page to the screen, Locke & Key has officially touched down on Netflix. The original comic book tale, follows the Locke siblings Tyler (Connor Jessup), Kinsey (Emilia Jones), and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) as they escape their hometown with their mother Nina (Darby Stanchfield) after witnessing their father Rendell's (Bill Heck) violent murder. The original story finds the Lockes family packing up and moving across the country to a town called Lovecraft, that’s obviously homage to genre lit icon, H.P. Lovecraft. The name of the seaside town in Netflix's iteration is Matheson, a nod to author Richard Matheson, who wrote a whole assortment of fantasy and horror classics. That alteration makes sense, given the adaptation's heavy fantasy element. Locke & Key centers on Key house, the Locke family's large, mysterious ancestral home with a trove of secrets waiting to be discovered. Aside from the house's innate generational history, there is a bevy of magical keys hidden throughout the home. Add in some sinister threats and a fair share of high school drama, and you've got the makings of some promising entertainment. Locke & Key is certainly fun to watch. Here's hoping that the next season will also bring with it a solid narrative foundation, whether it's horror or fantasy.

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