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“Winter Fire”

What a finale!

Seriously, that was easily one of the best finales of the year.

The use of ghost Richie in the last scenes of the conflict on the ice and at his funeral had tears coming out of my eyes. It was a beautiful use of the character that we all fell in love with and mourned his loss last week.

I loved everything about this finale. It was suspenseful, anxiety-creating, and scary. There was also so many things that were satisfying about it.

Pennywise gave us a time travel rule, how he sees time all at once. He told Marge that she would be the mother of one of the kids who would kill him. Madge would later reference this and guessed that Pennywise might go into the past to try and make a change. It is a great set up for future seasons of this.

Dick Hallorann came through big time in this episode… as did Rose with her “voice in the head silencing” tea. The scene where he was coming out of his trance was unbelievable. When Rose offered Dick the tea to shut off the voices, she asked if he trusted her. I would be grabbing that tea immediately.

The dagger doing its best “ring of power” imitation as the girls tried to get it where it needed to go. All Lilly had to do was call it “my precious.”

Going back to Rich’s funeral, that was such a lovely moment and with ghost Rich invisibly comforting his parents and Will, it was emotionally powerful. Rich’s use in this episode is sensational.

What a fantastic season. It: Welcome to Derry truly was special.