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Netfl ix’s Locke & Key is a serviceable adaptation Keizer
reads, signs
By T.J. REID
On April 24, Disney
will release Black Wid-
ow, the twenty-fourth
movie in the Marvel
Cinematic
Universe.
Two months later, Won-
der Woman 1984, the
ninth movie in the DC
Extended Universe, will
hit theaters courtesy of
Warner Bros. Although
such fi lm and TV adap-
tations of comic book
properties have been
around almost as long as
the funny books them-
selves, their populari-
ty practically exploded
Submitted
in the 2010’s, and they Emilia Jones and Jackson Robert Scott as Kinsey and Bode Locke hide
have not showed any from a very real threat in Locke & Key.
indication of slowing
show, on the other hand, is the reminded me very much of a
down now that we’ve
hit a new decade. Even non-su- story of the Locke children and teenage-geared drama that you
perhero, non-Marvel and DC mother coming to grips with would fi nd on the CW or even
comics have been getting in on their tragedy while simultane- ABC Family.
The other sizable issue I
the fun and making the jump to ously getting involved in and
the big and little screens in this dealing with some messy new had was the writing. I couldn’t
exciting era, and IDW Publish- relationships, romantic or oth- put my fi nger on it at fi rst, but
ing’s Locke & Key series is one of erwise. Oh, there’s also some su- eventually it occurred to me
the latest to do so. It is, however, pernatural adventures that exist that sometimes the charac-
not one of the greatest offerings on the periphery as well. They ters in Locke & Key said things
also change the name of the in ways that no human would
out there.
Written and co-created by town to Matheson for… some ever do naturally. The actors do
their best to sell this occasion-
Joe Hill, prolifi c novelist and son reason.
As a fan of the original com- ally off-putting dialogue, how-
of the great Stephen King, Locke
& Key (the comic) is the story ic, that was my biggest problem ever, and they do it well. You
of a small family who, after wit- with season one of Locke & Key: won’t even notice anything 95
nessing the brutal murder of a slight yet noticeable shift in percent of the time. But that 5
patriarch Rendell Locke, decide focus from the source mate- percent had a tendency to draw
to make a fresh start by mov- rial. This in and of itself is not me out of the story whenever
ing to their ancestral home in a bad thing, of course; it was
Lovecraft, Massachusetts. They just unexpected. The acting is
are not in Key House for long well done (outside of a couple
before magical, spooky things of child actors who get a pass
begin to happen, all tied into because they’re kids), and the
mysterious keys with equally characters’ reactions to trau-
ma are believable if not always
mysterious powers.
Locke & Key the television pleasant. In a way, the show
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