Talking with Creative Minds Behind Netflix’s ‘Locke & Key’

A while back, we here at BNP got a chance to talk with the folks who help forged the magic of Locke & Key. There are no spoilers for season 2 (which you can watch right now and read our review here), so feel free to take a read as we attempted to use the Head Key to learn a little more about the series. Producers: Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill Black Nerd Problems: I guess my first question can be for both of you. I know this is for the Season 2 premiere, but I know it’s also very exciting that there’s a Season 3 in the works. There’s some stuff that happens in Season 2 with the Revolutionary War that got seeded. How did you manage to prepare for Season 3, while still giving Season 2 the adaptation that it deserved? Meredith Averill: There’s such a rich mythology within the comics, dating back to the Revolutionary War, that tells the story of the origins of the Black Door and the first key being made, how it was made, who made it, why it was made. We have always really loved those stories and how the past is affecting the present in our Locke family, and so we knew we wanted to start telling that story in Season 2 and let the consequences of that affect and move into Season 3. So you’re going to see that be introduced in Season 2, but you’re also going to see it be carried through into Season 3.

Meredith Averill

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