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Season 1 locke and key1/17/2024 In part, this is because the comic benefited from looking and feeling otherworldly it was originally set in a town called “Lovecraft” to emphasize its connection to the Weird genre of horror fiction, where reality perpetually bends to open doors to the supernatural. The show is more a watered-down, much blander version of the comic than a satisfying page-to-screen transition. Hill even won the Eisner Award - the comics industry’s equivalent of an Oscar - in 2012 for his writing on the series.īut where the Locke & Key comics gained a reputation for its beauty and complexity, the show, co-created by veteran screenwriters and producers Carlton Cuse ( Lost) and Meredith Averill ( Haunting of Hill House), offers little of either. The series was especially praised for its emphasis on human drama, and the fact that the family dynamics drive the plot as much as its supernatural horror. Written by horror novelist Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, and drawn by artist Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key ran for five years (2008–2013) before reaching its conclusion. Locke & Key also fits that description perfectly - but many significant differences exist between the Netflix adaption and the comic it’s based on. The show’s 10-episode first season was released Friday on Netflix, and it’s tailor-made to please fans of other Netflix series like 2018’s Haunting of Hill House and the popular Series of Unfortunate Events - both of which mixed horror-fantasy with a story about dysfunctional siblings uniting to solve a family mystery in a setting with gothic Victorian overtones. But at last, the long, long-anticipated adaptation of the cult comic has finally premiered. Locke & Key has had an unusually convoluted road to the screen, with a decade of production twists and no fewer than two previous pilots filmed and discarded.
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