The characters have been processed into familiar TV archetypes. The comic’s nightmare images have mostly been replaced with much more prosaic equivalents, or omitted entirely.
But from the start, the story that sang on the page feels generic on the screen. The Netflix series follows this story fairly faithfully, apart from condensing a fair bit of the action, and building out or paring back various ancillary characters. He also inadvertently frees something ruthless and monstrous that wants the keys. While the older kids navigate their guilt and grief over the events around Rendell’s death, and adapt to a new school and new social pressures, Bode discovers a series of magical keys around the house, and begins experimenting with the powers they give him. Recently widowed mother Nina and her three kids - troubled high-schoolers Tyler and Kinsey, and their energetic younger brother Bode - are all still in shock after the murder of Nina’s husband Rendell.
Hill and Rodríguez’s core series, which runs to six collected books (plus a handful of tiny spin-off stories), follows the Locke family as they move into their ancestral home, a rambling mansion called Keyhouse. And it’s so straightforward, bland, and average that it raises the question: should Locke & Key enthusiasts ever have held out hopes for a screen version of this story? 7, Netflix released the 10-episode first season of a Locke & Key adaptation. Their dreams have finally solidified into reality: On Feb. Each time a new iteration was announced, Locke & Key fans publicly expressed their excitement and their hopes that this would be the version that finally worked out. The Weinsteins bought the screen rights within weeks of the premiere issue publishing, and those rights passed from hand to hand over the next decade half a dozen film or TV versions were planned, then scrapped. Almost from the moment Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez’s brilliant horror comics series Locke & Key debuted back in 2008, it was in development for a screen adaptation.
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