The show also adds new faces, like Josh Bennett, a new history teacher with a connection to Keyhouse and its colonial history. Season 2 of Locke & Key grabs promising elements from the source material and remixes them into a new story that fits within the world of the original, while still feeling like they could only be told in this format. In the comic, Duncan was never forced to make a key, and he didn't have his memories removed he just forgot like any other adult, while Erin-who spent decades in a catatonic state after getting her mind wiped out-only appears briefly and toward the very end of the story. It helps that Duncan becomes a mentor figure to the Locke kids, an unexpected ally that knows far more about Keyhouse than our protagonists and helps them to not just run around clueless for 10 episodes. Erin is the only living member of Rendell's group of friends, and the only one that knows what they did to Duncan, so the show explores the extent of his trauma through her guilt. Duncan trying to make sense of his past while seeing magic in the present, just before his brain rewires and makes him forget, is painful to watch, especially when the show brings in Erin Voss, a friend of Duncan's brother, Rendell. The best part of the season involves this theme of forgetting, and how it is applied to the kids' uncle Duncan, who had all his memories of the keys forcefully removed by his brother and his friends after he made a key for them-the incident that kickstarted the events of the show. We see that in Tyler's girlfriend Jackie who starts forgetting on the spot about the magical things she witnessed just minutes earlier, and in Tyler's desperation over stopping the process so they can remember together. Though the show doesn't explicitly connect the idea to the "Riffel Rule" from the comic, which was created so that adults can't abuse the keys and use them for war, this season gets a lot of mileage out of the trauma growing up brings. While evil is plotting, the Locke kids spend the first half of the season concerned with a different problem in the fact that they are growing up and once they turn 18, they will forget all about the magical keys in Keyhouse. Though we did explore some of it in the comics, the live-action Locke & Key runs away with its own version, making the relationship between the Lockes and the whispering iron that gives the keys their magic much stronger and essential to the lore of the show, as well as Gabe's story of trying to make a key of his own, and whether a demon can make a key made out of other demons. Likewise, it is through Dodge and Eden's story that the Netflix adaptation takes the opportunity to flesh out the mythology around the titular keys, their origins, and how they are made. The show spends enough time with them that we get more insight into Dodge than we get in the comics, at least in terms of how she reacts and relates to others. The dynamic between Dodge/Gabe and Eden is fun to watch, with Eden's goofier, more naive personality rubbing off against Dodge's cold and calculating demeanor. For one, Dodge is not the lone demon in this version since Eden, another kid from the Lockes' school, got infected in the season finale and now they are working together. That ending paved the way for some wild deviations from the source material. Season 2 of Locke & Key, which came to Netflix in late October and remains steady in the service's Top 10, picks up a couple of months after the end of the previous season, with the demon Dodge tricking the Locke family into a false sense of security, thinking they'd gotten rid of her for good, before it was revealed that Dodge had in fact switched into the body of the kids' friend Gabe while an ally took her place in being sent to the demon dimension. The show is based on the comic of the same name by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez about three siblings living in a house full of magical keys while being constantly attacked by a demon bent on destroying the world. But when it remembers to go back to adapting the graphic novel in the second half of the season, it rushes through it like it was an afterthought. The second season of Locke & Key fixes a lot of the issues plaguing Season 1, like bringing back the inherent dark tone of the story and the horror elements, while expanding on the graphic novel it adapts to tell a fresh new story that fits within its world but explores ideas and themes only hinted at in the source material.
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