![]() ![]() “That was a conversation we had very early on in talking about what stories we wanted to expand on this season,” Averill continued. “Which is this desire to want to hold onto your childhood and not wanting to grow up and lose this aspect of your innocence.” Since the story is mostly told through Tyler’s (Connor Jessup) perspective, the season is concerned with his looming 18th birthday, and also the heartbreak of seeing his girlfriend Jackie (Genevieve Kang) forget about their time together with the keys. “It felt like a really beautiful metaphor for something that is quite universal,” Averill said. In the graphic novel, we learn of the Riffel Rule, created by an ancestor of the Lockes who made a key that makes everyone who turns 18 forget about the magical keys in Keyhouse. The reason they are unaware is that the Lockes spend most of season two dealing with the fact that they are growing up, and once you turn 18 you forget all about the magic. ![]() This makes for an interesting Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix-like run that revolves around Dodge seeking to build an army of demons, while the Locks have no idea that their enemy is still alive. The season one finale added a new dynamic by giving Dodge the ability to assume an entirely new identity no one in town knew about, and a sidekick in Eden. Indeed, the original graphic novel followed the same formula for most of its run: Dodge is discovered by someone, and right before they tell the Lockes, Dodge kills them and goes back into hiding. “That levity adds another layer to the character and it stops them from being too mustache-curly and instead gives them a bit more of an edge,” Averill adds. ![]() It presents an added obstacle in her plan to destroy the Lockes. And in our mythology, when a human is struck by a demon bullet they retain a certain amount of their personality, so Eden was a fun choice for that character as she is brand new to this world.”Ī big part of the season focuses on the dynamic between Dodge, who has been in this world for decades and has a certain level of comfort living among humans, with Eden, who is completely reckless and has to be kept in line lest she threatens to ruin Dodge’s plans. “We knew we wanted to end season one with one of our kids being struck by a demon bullet. “I think that sometimes when shows have a constant singular villain it runs the risk of feeling a bit monotonous and stale,” Averill told Observer regarding the addition of Eden as a companion to the demon Dodge (Laysla De Oliveira), also known as Gabe (Griffin Gluck). So we reached out to showrunner Meredith Averill to run us through the big reveals of the season, how things changed from the comic, and what we can expect from the already completed season two. The first thing fans of the comic will notice going into this season are the significant changes from the source material-notably the addition of another otherworldly demon that has possessed the school bully Eden (Hallea Jones). After a decade of failed adaptation attempts, Netflix finally launched the first live-action adaptation of the Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez comic last year, and now the show’s second season is finally available to stream.
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