IT: Welcome to Derry (HBO Max) TV Show • Page 4

I heard something about the military trying to capture Pennywise to use as a weapon in the war lmao

 

Thought the first ten and last ten minutes ruled and the stuff in between was certainly a tv show

 

2nd ep is out

 

Opening theme song is fantastic

 

Okay what the fuuuuuuuck is with the birthing scenes in this show so far? Oh my god. Heads up for anyone who felt squeamish in that first episode…

 

The intro depicts stuff that should be in seasons 2 and 3 as well

 

Goddamnit

Yeah this was a little too Stranger Things-y for my liking

 

The girl playing Marge kills it. Highlight performance of this show so far. That actress played young Mackenzie Davis in the flashback parts of Station Eleven.

It occurred to me that Will and Ronnie are Mike's parents, which means in this adaptation's universe they both burn to death in a fire years later and it bummed me out.

Looks like we are getting Shawshank Prison next episode

I looked for more connections between characters in this show and the original story. In the novel Ritchie's late mother's name was Maggie. Maggie is a nickname of Margeret, another nickname for Margaret is Marge. Just sayin.

 

That would track. Her making the Patty Cakes laugh class clown style during lunch was very Ritchie.

 

This second episode was also great. The creature designs so far are A+.

I am very curious of the viewership numbers for this series as it progresses. Normies are gonna wanna tune for “the scary clown” and so far nothing.

 

Premiere was fun. CGI kinda sucks but I’ll keep watching.

 

I am reading some of the VFX in this could be AI

 

I am not shocked. the CGI tower in episode 1 looked like dogshit

 

the writing on this show is so odd, none of the characters talk like people

the actors for Lilly and Marge are really good though and I could watch Jovan forever

 

I loved IT when I was younger. I tried watching Episode 1 tonight and could not get into this at all. Probably out on this, unfortunately.

 

The pickle jar face CGI was pretty bad

 

I tried the first two episodes of this and was pretty underwhelmed, and I really went in hoping to like this. The move they pulled with the main characters was cool, and I was surprised at the level of gore, but Andy Muschietti's take on King is getting pretty tiresome by this point. Is he directing all of these? I think I was hoping for viscerally terrifying, and the "scary" scenes here are mostly just loud & fast & CGI, which is a well this dude loves to go back to.

I'll probably try another episode or two to see where they're going with this

 

Yeah I thought the first episode was fine but haven’t had any desire to watch the second episode.

 

They're supposed to get really deep into Stephen King lore stuff this season, like very deep wider Dark Tower mythos stuff. I am just waiting for that.

There is gonna be a shift this season where stuff gets real weird.

 

IT is a big part of DT (mid)world building so makes sense. don't know how much I trust Muschietti with this stuff though honestly would rather he left it for Flanagan

 

This show has some big flaws, but I am enjoying myself.

Hoping it's not as big of disappointment as Alien: Earth. Really Andor might have been the only truly great big franchise expanded universe type show of 2025.

 

Muschietti’s first IT movie had a lot of great, scary scenes - particularly with Skarsgård as Pennywise - this show so far has been much more like the giant Paul Bunyan statue attack & Chinese Food Restaurant scene from Chapter II

 

Show ultimately has been fine, but man when they sorta leaned into the theory about the military looking for penny wise it took me out of the episode a bit