Locke & Key
Locke & Key tries too hard to be too many things. There’s high school drama times two, single mom drama, haunted house drama, boarding school drama, PTSD drama, alcoholism drama, and family drama. And this is all apart from the actual point of the series: the magical keys. The storyline has all these things it wants to cover, but it sure as hell takes it time getting there. The end result is a relaxed, meandering storyline that only manages to pack one or two punches per episode and loses track of the central plot very quickly. With a run time of nearly seven hours, I did not learn nearly enough about the Locke legacy.
While the premise is definitely interesting, not enough care was given to the supernatural storyline. We know that an evil entity is after the keys, but no one really explains why?
The two older Locke siblings, Tyler and Kinsey, can get really annoying at times. They’re prone to sudden flashes of genius, but are overtaken by bouts of stupidity far more often. Both of them are pretty awful to their friends, especially Kinsey, and it’s hard to believe that they were forgiven so many times. Scot and Gabe are literal angels who did not deserve to be dragged behind Kinsey.
The show was also missing the aesthetics that we’ve come to associate with Netflix originals like A Series of Unfortunate Events or To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which just made it less magical to watch.
The series was interesting, and there were some inspired strokes (I, for one, freaked out at the last episode when they jammed in 87 plot twists to set up the next season). For the most part, though, it felt like the Lockes just kept making things worse. Like literally every single thing they did was wrong and had disastrous consequences. Locke & Key has the light hearted part on lock (see what I did there?) but they’ve got to step up their treatment of the dark storyline that we all came to see.
While the premise is definitely interesting, not enough care was given to the supernatural storyline. We know that an evil entity is after the keys, but no one really explains why?
The two older Locke siblings, Tyler and Kinsey, can get really annoying at times. They’re prone to sudden flashes of genius, but are overtaken by bouts of stupidity far more often. Both of them are pretty awful to their friends, especially Kinsey, and it’s hard to believe that they were forgiven so many times. Scot and Gabe are literal angels who did not deserve to be dragged behind Kinsey.
The show was also missing the aesthetics that we’ve come to associate with Netflix originals like A Series of Unfortunate Events or To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which just made it less magical to watch.
The series was interesting, and there were some inspired strokes (I, for one, freaked out at the last episode when they jammed in 87 plot twists to set up the next season). For the most part, though, it felt like the Lockes just kept making things worse. Like literally every single thing they did was wrong and had disastrous consequences. Locke & Key has the light hearted part on lock (see what I did there?) but they’ve got to step up their treatment of the dark storyline that we all came to see.
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