A sometimes precocious, always adventurous ball of energy, it’s Bode who hears the first keys calling to him and is then somewhat sidelined by his siblings thinking they are protecting him. Read more – Stranger Things Season 4: Everything You Need to KnowĪll three of the Locke kids are excellent, though the stand out is young Bode, who also played inaugural clown fodder Georgie Denbrough in It. And fortunately it has more in common with It: Chapter One than Chapter Two, firmly focused on the kids and set in a world where the adults don’t seem to be able to retain any memory of the fantastical things that are going on around them, even immediately straight after. It’s enhanced by a soundtrack that mixes cool angsty pop tunes with a light, whimsical score.Įxec produced by Andy and Barbara Muschietti, Locke & Key is dashed with shades of their take on Stephen King’s It as the kids begin to uncover decades-old secrets from their father’s childhood. Most episodes feature the discovery of one or more new keys and while the main underlying narrative of the story – murdered dad, dark secrets, an evil child-killing demon trying to steal the keys for a nefarious purpose – is pretty dark, this lends an almost Harry Potter-esque level of wonder to the show. Keyhouse is a gorgeous, labyrinthine mansion that could give the Winchester Mystery House a run for its money and the kids – young Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) and his teenage sister Kinsey (Emilia Jones) and brother Tyler (Connor Jessup) – soon discover the house is full of secrets.Ĭertain magical keys are hidden throughout Keyhouse and once you work out how to use them amazing things become possible. Jumping between timelines in a way that all comes together perfectly by the end of the series and we learn that the grieving Locke family has moved into their father’s childhood home after he was murdered by a deranged student from the school where he worked as a guidance counsellor. Their loss is Netflix gain and with Carlton Cuse ( Lost) and Meredith Averill ( The Haunting of Hill House) as showrunners, the streaming service feels like the right home for a show that should appeal to fans of Stranger Things, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Riverdale as well as creepier and more grown up fare like Hill House.

This isn’t the first attempt to bring this story to the screen – Fox produced a pilot back in 2011 but didn’t pick up the show, and Hulu ordered, then passed on, another attempt as recently as 2017.

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