The Premiere
The first episode of Locke and Key Season 2 begins with three British soldiers creeping through a set of caves in Massachusetts in 1775. They uncover a strange doorway and realize they’ve been spotted, so they make their last stand. ..
A soldier is fighting with enemy troops when they end up possessed by a dark force. This dark force eventually infects the captain, allowing the darkness within the portal to take over. ..
Eden and Gabe are on a search for lead pieces that are called Whispering Iron. They are in the same sea cave that the soldiers in 1775 were at, but when two guards show up, they use their powers to thwart the threat.
The Anywhere Key is a magical key that can take the user to any place they desire. Gabe and his subordinate use it to travel to a cabin in the middle of the woods, where Gabe warns her that she needs to follow his lead. ..
The kids at Keyhouse continue to use the various keys around the house. For Bode, he uses the Hercules key, able to move a whole couch on his own. Kinsley is busy working on her movie, The Splattering, (still unsuspecting of Gabe of course) while Tyler continues to spend time with Jackie.
Nina finds out from Daniel that there is still no word on Ellie and it is looking more and more likely that she is dead. Bode, however, is not ready to give up. ..
Kinsey’s movie premiere goes ahead without any problems. Gabe slips back into his role of loving boyfriend, but Eden causes no end of problems. Heading out for some refreshments, she quite literally bites the face off the cashier.
Gabe senses something amiss and heads off to check, seeing blood staining the floor. Naturally, the pair work together to drag his corpse across the floor and into one of the nearby rooms. Nina, having just spilled her drink, heads out into the corridor and notices what’s happening. When Gabe show up out of the toilets, he feigns ignorance.
In the aftermath of the movie premiere, Kinsey’s ongoing romantic woes continue to dominate large parts of this episode. She’s torn between her feelings for Scot and devotion for Gabe. Can anyone else sense a love triangle coming on?
The episode closes out with Gabe and Eden working with the lead at their remote cabin. They mold it into another key with a sinister-looking skull on the end. But what does it do? ..
The Episode Review
The Locke family is back and much like the first season, the opening chapter eases us back into Keyhouse and the Locke family happenings. Kinsey and Tyler are both wrapped up in their own teen romances, leaving it to Bode and Nina to bring the focus back to the keys and their purpose.
Gabe and Eden have a plan of their own, especially when we see at the end that they’ve crafted their own skull key. This certainly looks like an ominous sign for the future and quite what’s in store for our characters next remains a mystery.
The first episode of “The Crown” feels like a placeholder for what’s to come. It’s not particularly exciting or well-written, and it seems like the show is trying to set up some big plot points but never really delivers on them.
