Locke & Key
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Our Review
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic about the Locke family, three siblings who move into their murdered father’s ancestral home, Keyhouse, and discover magical keys that unlock doors to anywhere, memories, identities, and death itself, gets a handsome adaptation. The comic is horror; the show is a teen fantasy adventure with horror furniture, and the shift softens the material’s darkness, but the keys themselves, the Anywhere Key, the Head Key (walking into your own mind is the show’s best visual), the Identity Key, the Omega Key, are translated with real imagination.
Season 1 (the Dodge cat and mouse) is the best: the mystery of who Dodge really is plays fair, and the sibling chemistry (Emilia Jones’s Kinsey, Connor Jessup’s Tyler, Jackson Robert Scott’s Bode) carries it. Season 2’s Gabe arc twist divides fans; season 3 closes the story properly, a rare completed Netflix adaptation, with a finale that earns its tears. It’s the Goosebumps to Stranger Things‘ IT, lighter, but crafted with care.
Verdict: Watch it with a teen or your inner one. The keys are fun; the family is the point.
