Finished Locke & Key.
I find it hard to formulate my feelings about it, but even though I liked some elements, I wasn't absolutely crazy about it. Maybe I expected it to be more horror, with all the references to horrorfilms and even Savini appearing in it. It's simply not horror - it's fantasy, imo. It's closer to a family-series for all ages, the horror element is very marginal. As such it's fairly enjoyable, even though I still had some problems with the way the story is told. The writing didn't feel very fluid to me from episode to episode. It's essentially a IT type story: a group of children shares a tragic secret that comes back to haunt them later in life. It's just told from the perspective of their children. Getting to hear the story from this secondary perspective makes it feel more muddled. It just doesn't work as well as getting to experience it from the people directly involved.
I also felt there is nothing special about the idea of magical keys opening secret doors, and it was confusing because you don't know exactly how many keys there are (more and more turn up, seemingly at random) and how they all look - there was sometimes little attention given to showing the keys clearly enough to tell them apart.
I wonder if this wouldn't have worked better as a theatrical film from a director like Tim Burton or Peter Jackson, instead of a complete series. There are moments when it feels like such a film, but it never quite gets there.
I find it hard to formulate my feelings about it, but even though I liked some elements, I wasn't absolutely crazy about it. Maybe I expected it to be more horror, with all the references to horrorfilms and even Savini appearing in it. It's simply not horror - it's fantasy, imo. It's closer to a family-series for all ages, the horror element is very marginal. As such it's fairly enjoyable, even though I still had some problems with the way the story is told. The writing didn't feel very fluid to me from episode to episode. It's essentially a IT type story: a group of children shares a tragic secret that comes back to haunt them later in life. It's just told from the perspective of their children. Getting to hear the story from this secondary perspective makes it feel more muddled. It just doesn't work as well as getting to experience it from the people directly involved.
I also felt there is nothing special about the idea of magical keys opening secret doors, and it was confusing because you don't know exactly how many keys there are (more and more turn up, seemingly at random) and how they all look - there was sometimes little attention given to showing the keys clearly enough to tell them apart.
I wonder if this wouldn't have worked better as a theatrical film from a director like Tim Burton or Peter Jackson, instead of a complete series. There are moments when it feels like such a film, but it never quite gets there.