Netflix’s popular supernatural drama Locke & Key will be ending with its upcoming third season. According to Deadline, the streamer suggested to the producers that the show target a third-year wrap-up after it proved popular in its first season. The comic book series ran for 37 issues which covered three “acts”, and the TV show should be able to cover the major storylines. If Netflix was not so heavily focused on short runs for its originals, though, the show probably could have gone for another season or more. But this has become a fairly typical pattern for the streamer’s originals to have a three-season run with the third year announced in advance as its last. Co-showrunners Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill had the following to say in a statement about the show:
Once we began working on the series, we felt three seasons was the ideal length to bring the story of the Locke family and their Keyhouse adventures to a satisfying conclusion. As storytellers, we are grateful that we had the opportunity to tell our version of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s incredible story exactly the way we wanted. We’re keeping the magical keys, though, for our own personal use.
Locke & Key drew strong viewership in its first season, though that was before Nielsen was tracking the streaming originals, so those numbers are not available. The second season spent five weeks in the Nielsen Rankings, rising as high as Number 2 with an estimated 1.1 billion minutes of viewing. It also spent five weeks in the Netflix Top 10 for English-Language originals, topping out at Number 3 with 56 million hours viewed. I thought that this one had a chance to at least stick around for four years and probably branch out into spin-offs, but Netflix has decided that the three-year run is enough for now.
Locke & Key follows the children of the Locke family who move to their ancestral home of Keyhouse after their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Once there, they discover the many keys it has which possess different powers and they accidentally unleash a powerful demon. It stars Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, and Petrice Jones and it is based on the comic-book series of the same name by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez.
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