Liked: Nina’s journey
We’ve always known that Nina (Darby Stanchfield) is a recovering alcoholic—in season one, she briefly relapsed in the wake of Rendell’s death; in season two, she sought out an AA meeting after recognizing she was headed that way again. But season three forced Nina to confront her disease as never before. After using the Memory Key so she could understand and remember magic, she used the Head Key to look up memories of Rendell—and realized just how many happy occasions were marred by her drinking. It’s a tough truth to accept, and Locke & Key slowed its breakneck season-three pace (briefly, but still) to give Nina’s self-confrontation the space it needed.
