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Critic Reviews
Oct 18, 2021
Season 2 Review:
The series does a bang-up job of easing you back into the world and organically weaving the info you need to know into the character dialogue and motivations. ... By exploding the plot, the sophomore season does what the best go-for-broke storytelling does: it will leave you craving more.
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The GuardianFeb 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While much of Locke and Key feels superficially familiar, cushioned by the superior production design and a lush score, there are enough deliberately disconcerting or oddball moments to make it a constantly evolving pleasure. And, with multiple volumes of the collected comic series already on bookstore shelves, this reincarnation could just be the start.
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The TelegraphFeb 3, 2020
Feb 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The writing explores recovery in an accessible way, and a diverse cast helps create an inviting new world. This combination of fantasy and horror provides opportunities not just for scares and imagination, but for astute reflections of society: that self-imposed burdens can leave everyone bowed. Locke & Key weaves a silver lining into an otherwise foreboding tapestry.
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Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
In the end, Locke & Key is at its best when it stops trying to be cool and edgy and gives into the earnest spectacle of kids getting pieces of their father back through unexplainable forces. That is a hugely engrossing and affecting idea that keeps the show afloat at first and makes it truly sing at last.
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Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Locke & Key isn’t at all shy about revealing Key House’s incredible secrets; it just struggles to then do much with them, instead tending to hit pause on any acquired momentum to dive back into high school dating/movie club drama. As such, things don’t really get crackling until Episode 5 or so.
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Feb 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
To say there’s a lot going on is putting it mildly. The writers do an admirable job of blending and connecting those multiple storylines, but not all of the subplots are all that involving or exciting. From time to time, the overall momentum slows to a gloomy crawl. The younger actors all turn in lively, empathetic performance. ... Unfortunately, many of the other adult cast members turn in underwhelming work.
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RogerEbert.comFeb 7, 2020
Feb 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Despite Locke & Key’s heavy thematic dimensions, its potential for exploring the interlocking themes of memory and grief is undercut by a host of issues: its pedestrian score, which doesn’t trust the audience one iota to make obvious connections; its light-handed approach to the story’s horror elements; its tone, which renders the show a young-adult-skewed adaptation of the source material; and a lack of imagination in its approach to memory as a plot dynamic.
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Feb 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Eevery time Locke & Key hits a peak — episodes three and four and seven through nine are the highlights — it's followed by a valley. ... Overall, Locke & Key struggles to establish the stakes for the series — I still can't tell you what would happen if Evil Well Girl (Laysla De Oliveira) achieved her evil goals — and struggles more to decide who it's intended for.
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Feb 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Perhaps the adaptation's troubled development history explains why this incarnation of the series seems determined to play it as safe as possible -- as safe as a show that features multiple scenes of characters using keys to unlock the contents of their heads can be anyway.
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The IndependentFeb 7, 2020
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