Locke & Key: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best

Who had the key to our hearts in Netflix's Locke and Key?

Locke and Key
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Netflix's lucrative venture into the weird and wonderful world of fantasy continues in the form of its latest series Locke & Key - which has just arrived on the streaming service.

Based on the IDW comic series of the same name, the show follows Nina Locke and her three children Tyler, Kinsey and Bode who, following the death of their beloved husband and father Rendell, pack up and leave Seattle, moving to his family home in Massachusetts. However, when they arrive there, the kids soon realise that there is more the centuries-old house than its eerie architecture and, with that, they quickly understand why their father never talked about his childhood there.

A show that thrives on its unnerving concept, Locke & Key has a lot going for it. That being said, it would be remiss of this writer to pretend that the characters (and the cast playing them) weren't its strongest aspect because, a few stupid decisions aside, the personalities on this show are what ultimately carries it.

On that note, let's take a moment to look back at all the characters that Locke & Key has to offer and, while we're at it, rank them from worst to best.

13. Eden Hawkins

Locke and Key
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Perhaps the most in-your-face character of them all, Eden Hawkins ends up going on the familiar but effective character journey of the shallow-and-selfish-it-girl-who-surprisingly-excels-in-a-crisis.

Yes, Eden was a plot device that we were supposed to hate in the beginning, feel sorry for when she was humiliated by Kinsey and finally, applaud when she came through for the people she didn't expect to call friends. And, as she was growing to be such a great character, it's unfortunate that her demonic fate robbed her of developing further in Season 2.

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Michael Patterson is an experienced writer with an affinity for all things film and TV. He may or may not have spent his childhood obsessing over WWE.