Locke & Key

I remember enjoying the comics, but something felt off about this adaptation. Instead of a decent focus on the keys, we spend too much time following high school drama. The colour grading also seemed a touch too warm for outdoor scenes, dampening a needed cold, mystery vibe. The set-up for the 2nd season was also too contrived.

Starts very brightly with warm-hearted, witty, tight-knit sibling drama plus magic key shenanigans. Unfortunately whether because it's taking too many cues from the source, or too few, the show often veers from schmaltz to fairly tone-deaf nastiness in a blink and there's a slew of fairly problematic subtexts that are just brushed over. The characters mostly fall into nonsensical/self-sabotaging behaviours for the sake of plot-padding that undermine their obvious smarts and the shows potential.

Appallingly bad writing with acting following close by. As the show progresses it deviates more and more from the comic so that nothing but main characters are left by S03. Did I mention that the show is badly written? Did I mention that acting is bad? Avoid.

Good googly moogly. These are some of the dumbest, worst-decision-making characters ever put on TV. Season 1 is a bit dull, but season 2 is actively painful at times. Just an awful, awful cast. Edit: Season 3 is an all-timer. Legitimately the worst decision-making main cast in a show that's not deliberately trying to make everyone a bumbling idiot. Bode might be the dumbest character in TV history.

The acting is atrocious.