SHOWRUNNER EXCLUSIVE
Locking Up
Locke & Key’s showrunners reveal the final battle of good versus evil
“Look at this little idiot in his stupid hat. Ha!”
LOCKE & KEY’S SECOND SEASON saw the Locke siblings – Tyler (Connor Jessup), Kinsey (Emilia Jones) and Bode (Jackson Robert Scott) – embracing their destinies as keepers of the mystical keys. These objects of power allowed them to vanquish their fiendish foe, Dodge (Laysla De Oliveira), who had taken the form of Kinsey’s love interest, Gabe (Griffin Gluck).
Showrunners Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill wanted the third and final season to be rooted in family, to explore what these supernatural artifacts actually represent and to raise the stakes even higher than ever.
“The Lockes always claimed the keys as their own,” Averill tells Red Alert. “The reality is they are made of demons. We enjoyed digging into that complication, this idea that they can be used for good, but they can also be used for bad. And there’s the notion that the Lockes’ duty was to restore order to the world after the Black Door, a gateway to another realm, had been opened.”