Gear up for your adjacent Halloween marathon watch with Netflix's Locke & Central . The bear witness, based on the Eisner Accolade-winning graphic novel of the aforementioned name by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, is back for a second season. And unlike the titular Locke family, you don't demand a litany of keys to figure out its mysteries.

After several faux starts, including a failed pilot, Locke & Fundamental was successfully adapted past Netflix and streamed in 2020. Despite an uneven starting time, the show picked upwards pace and concluded with a twist that surprised anybody—even the readers of the graphic novels. The show has already been renewed for a third flavor, fifty-fifty before the x episodes of Season two have aired.

At present that the series is back for another circular, let'southward take a await back at who the characters are and what we can look forward to in the upcoming flavour.

Who Are the Characters?

Emilia Jones as Kinsey Locke, Connor Jessup as Ben Locke, and Jackson Robert Scott as Bode Locke.
Emilia Jones as Kinsey Locke, Connor Jessup as Ben Locke, and Jackson Robert Scott as Bode Locke. (Image via Netflix)

The main characters of Locke & Key are the Locke family. Connor Jessup stars equally the oldest Locke sibling, Tyler, along with Emilia Jones equally Kinsey, Jackson Robert Scott as Bode and Darby Stanchfield every bit their female parent Nina. Griffin Gluck and Laysla De Oliveira will star as Gabe and Dodge. Aaron Ashmore and Hallea Jones have both been promoted to series regulars and will render to play Uncle Duncan Locke and Kinsey'southward frenemy Eden, respectively.

Among the supporting cast, Petrice Jones, Asha Bromfield, and Jesse Camacho return as the Locke siblings' friends Scot Cavendish, Zadie Wells and Doug Brazelle. Neb Heck will appear every bit Rendell Locke, Coby Bird reprises his role every bit neighbour Rufus Whedon, and Thomas Mitchell Barnett will be back every bit Sam Lesser.

Brendan Hines volition be a new serial regular, playing Josh Bennett, while Liyuo Abere will invitee star as Jamie Bennett. Leishe Meyboom has been added to the bandage, but there'southward no information on who her character Abby is. Equally seen in the trailer, Kevin Durand is a new member of the bandage, as well. He's credited every bit playing a character called Frederick Gideon who appears to exist a soldier in the 18th century storyline.

As of now, it doesn't expect like Sherri Saum will reprise her role every bit Ellie Whedon, the Locke's neighbour and Rufus' adoptive mother. Genevieve Kang'due south render as Tyler'due south girlfriend Jackie Veda as well seems unlikely.

Season One Recap

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The Locke family unit were living a happy life in Seattle when Sam Lesser bankrupt into their home and killed patriarch Rendell. His married woman Nina, who had struggled with alcoholism, recovered from being shot in the leg, but Tyler saw his father dice in front of him, while his sister Kinsey and little brother Bode hid from Sam.

Even so grieving, Nina decided to motion the family to Rendell's bequeathed home in the pocket-size boondocks of Matheson. Rendell's blood brother Duncan greeted the family but he didn't stick around. The grandeur of Keyhouse distracted the children from their trauma for a lilliputian while, just they did reckon with their loss throughout the first flavor. While Nina renovated Keyhouse, she became friendly with Ellie Whedon, ane of the last surviving connections to Rendell's past.

Along the way, all three siblings, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode, made friends in Matheson and discovered something peculiar about their new dwelling house. Keyhouse is littered with magical keys, each with its own unique ability. While the children explored each key's power, they unwittingly unlocked a grave danger to the world. Bode accidentally awakened Dodge, a demon from another realm, who then began her own search for the Keyhouse keys.

Dodge was on the search for the Omega Key, which would unlock the door to the realm that she came from. Since she couldn't search for information technology herself, she manipulated Sam Lesser into helping her. Information technology was on her urging that he killed Rendell. Lesser's efforts led to nought. Instead, he became trapped as a ghost on the Keyhouse grounds.

Dodge tried every trick in the volume to convince the Locke children to manus over the keys—from seducing Tyler to scaring the Locke children into helping her. However, she didn't win most of those battles. Finally, Contrivance used the Identity Primal to plow into Lucas Caravaggio (Felix Mallard), Rendell'due south sometime friend and Ellie'southward groovy beloved. Lucas/Dodge forced Ellie to get every bit many keys equally she could, merely when that programme failed, Dodge turned to murder. Ellie and her son Rufus had to take Lucas downward, but not earlier the Locke children learned the truth virtually Keyhouse'southward sordid past.

When Rendell was a teenager, he introduced his friends to the magical keys. Simply his obsession with unlocking the Black Door led to an unfortunate incident—a demon escaped and latched onto Lucas, turning a kind, sweet boy into the embodiment of evil. Lucas killed 2 of their friends before some other friend, Erin, and Rendell killed Lucas. They concocted the story of their friends drowning and divided the keys among themselves. They hid the underground until Rendell'south death. One friend, Mark Cho, killed himself to proceed the surreptitious of the keys, while Erin was brain damaged and in hospital. Ellie was the last friend continuing, just she struggled with losing Lucas. She summoned his spirit, simply instead got Dodge the demon. And Dodge waited until someone could assist her escape—which turned out to exist Bode who handed her the Anywhere Key.

All throughout the first flavour, Kinsey became close to nerdy classmate Gabe, who seemed innocuous. In the flavour finale, the Locke siblings and their friends captured Dodge and pushed her into the demon realm, but what they didn't realize was that Dodge had swapped bodies with Ellie. While Ellie was trapped behind the Black Door, Dodge was hiding in plain sight as Gabe. While shutting the door, the children'due south friend Eden was attacked by 1 of the demons, but nobody noticed it except for Gabe/Dodge. The season concluded with Gabe/Dodge and Eden meeting upwardly and hatching a new plan for world domination.

What to Expect in Flavor 2

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The second flavor of the show looks to exist a departure from the original source fabric. Since Contrivance is still live and is pretending to exist Kinsey'southward young man Gabe, the story volition take a plow for the worst. It looks like Gabe is going to have a larger role as the villain—Dodge was the primary villain in Flavour one. And since Eden was accidentally possessed by a demon in the finale, she'south going to exist mentored by Gabe. Contrivance/Gabe are now a stride closer to taking over the globe.

Nina has witnessed some of the magic in Keyhouse, merely like all adults, she soon forgets about them. Merely it's obvious she's enlightened of the mysterious circumstances surrounding her family's life in Keyhouse. In the books, Rendell and his friends found a manner to retain their memories of magic, so will Nina uncover the same play a trick on in Season 2?

The older Locke siblings, Tyler and Kinsey, are inching closer to becoming adults, which ways they'll begin losing their ability to come across magic as well. That's something that the characters volition need to grapple with while they detect more keys and their origins. It looks like the children's interest in the keys could lead to more dangerous elements entering their world.

From the trailer, we learn that Duncan's memories will exist restored, so he volition need to cope with his past and the reality of Keyhouse's magic. In the books, Duncan is in a loving relationship with his long-time fellow Brian Rogan, and so one assumes Brian will make an appearance on the show at some point. The serial has but alluded to queer representation and then far, with a few mentions of Brian.

The executive producers have mentioned that the 2d season will explore the lore of the graphic novels. Nosotros saw a glimpse of this in the trailer, as the 18th century revolutionaries face down some magic. In the original graphic novels, Benjamin Locke, the progenitor of the Locke family created the first of the magical keys—the Omega Key—dorsum in the 1700s. But it's unclear whether Benjamin will be appearing as early as Season ii.

Finally, it looks like more than keys will be forged and darker magic will rise in Season 2.

Explaining the Keys

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The key (pardon the pun) to much of the plot in Locke & Cardinal is downwards to the magical keys that the Locke family, and the villains, use throughout the series. All i needs to do is to insert a magical central into a door to activate it. Here are the keys that were introduced in the first season.

Anywhere Key – This key gives the owner the ability to travel anywhere in the world. The only grab is that they need to envision their destination in their listen.

Echo Key – Past using this key, a person tin summon an echo of someone who has died. Even so, though the person is tangible, they tin can only move through the world using the Anywhere Key.

Ghost Fundamental – This is i of the few keys that tin can only be used on a specific door. The Ghost Key can only work on the Ghost door, which is located in the winter study in Keyhouse. Whoever uses the fundamental becomes a ghost, but they don't die. However, if the door is airtight while they're in ghost form, they're stuck wandering the grounds of Keyhouse, unseen by humanity.

Head Key – This key lets you literally go inside another person's caput. The inside of the user's mind usually looks like their favorite place, like an arcade or their previous home. 1 can add and subtract elements from the listen using this fundamental besides. For example, Duncan's memories were removed and Kinsey removed her fear, while Tyler added books in his caput to learn faster.

Identity Key – One of the major departures from the graphic novels was swapping the Gender and Skin Keys for the Identity Key. This key lets you have on a whole new identity, which explains the existence of Lucas' alternate identities, Dodge and Gabe.

Matchstick Key – This was as well a key created exclusively for the show. The key sets anything it comes into contact with on fire. Different nearly of the other keys, nevertheless, it can exist used on any object to set up it alight.

Mending Fundamental – A very user-friendly key to accept. The Mending Fundamental must be used on the Mending Cabinet to work. Any object placed inside the chiffonier and then unlocked with the Mending Key volition be repaired. However, this magic only works on objects, not people, as Nina found out when she tried to employ it on Rendell's urn in Season 1.

Mirror Central – Some other key that was made for the show, the Mirror Key works on both doors and mirrors. This is a dangerous key since the user is beckoned into a maze of mirrors and reflections that are like shooting fish in a barrel to get lost in.

Music Box Fundamental – This key needs to exist inserted into a specific music box to work. Once inserted, the user can control whoever they want and compel them to do their bidding.

Omega Cardinal - The Omega Key opens and closes the Black Door, which is the portal to a hell-like dimension that is total of demons similar Dodge.

Plant or Thorn Key – This cardinal can exist used to control all flora. A keyhole manifests on plants when the key is active, assuasive the user control. The Locke children discovered Duncan's lost memories, which were hidden inside tree roots, by using this key.

Shadow Fundamental – This key activates the Crown of Shadows, giving the wearer of the crown power to control the shadows (demons) from the other realm.

More Keys? – The graphic novels feature several more magical keys like the Angel Key (which gives the user wings to fly), the Giant Key, Timeshift Central, and many more than. In the Season 2 trailer, Bode locates the Dollhouse Key which bends reality inside Keyhouse. We also encounter Gabe and Eden forging a key with a skull head. It looks like an evil version of the Ghost Central just information technology could exist something entirely different. We can wait forrad to even more keys making their debut next season.

Locke & Key Season two will premiere on Fri, October 22nd on Netflix.

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