Dodge is defeated. The Echoes are gone. The Door is closed. Finally the Locke family can use the keys without fear of interference or violence until demonic redcoat Captain Frederick Gideon Kevin Durand returns from the dead to claim the keys and tear open the boundary between our world and the blue Hell that lies beyond. Can the Lockes defeat him while oldest brother Tyler can not even remember the magic of the keys?
Spoiler alert: They can. After 3 seasons of frustratingly shallow characterizations and growing disregard for the rules of its own universe, Locke & Key comes to a satisfying conclusion. Satisfying in this case means the show is over and I can stop rooting for the demons.
What cursed monkeys paw gave the King family so much talent while damning their stories to such uninspired television adaptations? Stephen Kings been chained to so many terrible productions over the years that I am amazed he still grants permission. Even the spooky first season of Castle Rock was overshadowed by its dull confusing sequel. Meanwhile the adaptation of his son Joe Hills graphic novels demonstrates exactly why Neil Gaiman fought for decades to keep The Sandman off the screen until it could be done properly.
Hill should ask him for some tips before he sells the rights to anything else.The final season of Locke & Key strips a lot of the confusing side characters and subplots from the story no doubt hoping to add some tension to its game of cat & mouse. It does not work. Kevin Durand sputters and roars his way through the season as Captain Gideon and is the only source of fun on the screen even as his every plot fails. Its also not his fault I will always see him as X-Men Origins Wolverines godawful Blob.
Gideon murdered Eden the one demon with a grasp of the 21st century and is left with minions so incompetent they might as well be 3 feet tall and bright yellow. He begins with a pair of amusingly insane witches but they are defeated in less than an episode. They are replaced by the Sneerington brothers not their real names redcoat Echoes whose stupidity at least explains why the Brits lost the Revolutionary War.
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