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- Netflix
- Feb 7, 2020
- Netflix
- Feb 7, 2020
Summary After the murder of their father, the Locke siblings (Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup and Emilia Jones) return to Keyhouse, the family home, where they discover mysterious keys that could be connected to their father's death in this drama based on graphic novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez.
- Netflix
- Feb 7, 2020
- Netflix
- Feb 7, 2020
Summary After the murder of their father, the Locke siblings (Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup and Emilia Jones) return to Keyhouse, the family home, where they discover mysterious keys that could be connected to their father's death in this drama based on graphic novels by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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41% Positive
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59% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
61
41% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
59% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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I loved the first season of Netflix’s Locke & Key adaptation, which brilliantly skirts the line between horror, drama, comedy and dark fantasy the comics by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez helped innovate.
As the episodes progress, the writing becomes more confident, and the season ends strongly. "Locke & Key" is the TV-show equivalent of a fixer-upper with good bones. The structure and the foundation are there, but some cosmetic updates might help.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 93 User Ratings
6.3
60% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
18% Mixed
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22% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 93 User Ratings
6.3
60% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
18% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
22% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
ES LA MEJOR SERIE, desde el primer momento te atrapa, me la vi sin ver ni un tráiler, y aún así consideró que es BUENISIMA
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SEASON 1
I will be up front and say, that if you came from the comic, and are expecting a direct port, you are going to be dissapointed. Coming into it with a fresh mind, and thinking of it as the first successful show to be created on this, it is great. They turned the mature content of the comic down from 100 to about **** I think they still do a great job of showing the Locke family, and the impact the different keys have on them. I would definitely recommend watchin
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SEASON 1
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.
As is, it’s a perfectly fun, flighty dark fantasy that hasn’t quite unlocked its full potential.
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.
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.
The cast and script and direction and production are all as glossy you’d expect from a production like this. But it is frustratingly safe, at once too much and not enough. If Netflix won’t take a risk, viewers shouldn’t be expected to, either.
Lets just dwell on what lets this show down, the script, period. The background story and actors are quite good, however the script is juvenile, filled with plot holes and over dramatisation, characters do and say things that just does not stand up to any form of scrutiny. Leave you brain at the door, and pray that season 2 brings fixes to these really obvious shortcomings.
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SEASON 1
The show doesn't capture the themes of a child's innocence lost because of violence and fear that were so effective in the comics. The characters have also lost the charm that they had in the graphic novel ( Bode and the mom being good examples, Bode is now just an annoying child with no depth, whereas in the comic he was just as annoying but entertainingly so and he was clever, figured things out on his own and didn't have to be told to do something that will advance the plot, and the mom is now boring, as she loses the vices that she had in the comics, therefor removing her character arc). Couldn't even get past the first 3 episodes.
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SEASON 1
The adult graphic novel is a gritty, gruesome and violent horror/fantasy. If the show would've followed the novel, it could've been something unique and special. Instead they removed the horror, twisted the story, made it dumb and turned it into a mediocre teen drama fantasy show ...like we really needed another one of those. Greatly missed opportunity.
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