
#Locke and key series#
The series is based on the comic book of the same name illustrated by Gabriel Rodríguez and written by Joe Hill of Hill House Comics Hill, who is Stephen King's son, is unsurprisingly something of a master of dark fantasy and horror and is credited as the series' creator. There is a key that allows you to control the actions of the people around you, a key that allows you to see inside your own head, and a key that lets you turn into a ghost.įor viewers, this is when the world of "Locke & Key" – developed by Carlton Cuse ("Lost"), Aron Eli Coleite ("Heroes"), and Meredith Averill ("The Haunting of Hill House") – really opens up, revealing a layered magical mystery that is often captivating. It's all fun, games, and vanilla cones until the Well Lady (whom we later come to find out is named Dodge, played by Laysla De Oliveira) takes the key and threatens Bode and his family's safety if he doesn't turn over any other keys he finds.Įventually his older siblings join in the search - and the fight - as they become attuned to the keys' whispers.
#Locke and key trial#
After some trial and error, Bode realizes that it can unlock a door to literally anywhere in the world he can start in his bedroom, pop the key in a lock, and step into an ice cream parlor. He begins scouring Key House and, soon enough, he's drawn to a kind of layered, muffled whisper - his first key. Since he is a Locke, he'll be able to hear them when he's close. It starts as an echo, but soon morphs into a female voice that instructs Bode to search his new home for keys. The first being a voice from within a nearby well. Rendell Locke (Bill Heck) had been raised in Key House, though he never returned, or spoke about his time there, once he closed the door behind him.Īnd it quickly becomes apparent to Bode that there are otherworldly things about Key House that call out to him. The family has just moved to this sprawling, if slightly dilapidated, New England estate, and while it feels a world away from their home in Seattle, it may hold some answers to their father's recent, mysterious murder. Recover Anywhere Key."Ĭompleting this list is going to be necessary if Bode and his family - his mother, Nina (Darby Stanchfield), and teenage siblings, Tyler and Kinsey (Connor Jessup and Emilia Jones) - are going to continue living peacefully in Key House.


He ends up with a tidy to-do list of sorts: "Covert mission: Confront Well Lady. Bode Locke, the plucky young protagonist (Jackson Robert Scott) of Netflix's adaptation of the beloved graphic novel "Locke & Key," sits at a kitchen island, scrawling with crayon.
