Locke & Key Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs
1. The Totally Underwhelming Ending
No spoilers here, but the season's final episode sadly fails to resolve things in a particularly satisfactory fashion, nor provide a compelling setup for the expected second season.
Even ignoring the slapdash bombardment of wonky CGI during a frantic climactic set-piece, there's a final rug-pull waiting for fans that, while perhaps unexpected, doesn't land with quite the intended mind-blowing impact.
It's more of a shrug-worthy, "Oh, really?", moment than it is a genuinely jaw-dropping one, and suggests a relatively underwhelming direction for season two, if it happens of course.
Locke & Key has plenty of flaws for audiences to deal with, then, but there's also a lot that does make it worthwhile. Here's everything the show gets right...
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