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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.

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“The Black Spot”

What a horrific episode.

I can honestly say that it nearly made me turn it off.

Rich died in the horrendous fire set at the Black Spot. I have not felt this empty after a scene on TV in a long time. It had that same feeling the night Negan killed Glen on the Walking Dead. I understand stakes, but some times the stakes are just too high.

Plus, to have Rich go out saving Marge, sacrificing himself.. I’m sorry, I just can’t handle it.

I have a terrible feeling that the racist bastards that set that fire at the Black Spot will not get their comeuppance. That radio report the next morning was absolutely sickening.

I was satisfied by IT killing Kersh. Chopping the top of his head off was great, though the clown taking a few bites from the head was gross.

Outside of the fire, we get some real background on Pennywise… specifically the original clown before IT took his form. IT realized that children were attracted to Pennywise, and that is why the monster took the form of a clown.

The army jumped into the horrible aspect too as they found and destroyed one of the pillars. Because the nation needs to be afraid… to have fear.

Pennywise showing up at Will’s house at the end will lead into the finale next week.

That fire nearly wiped me out. That was a nightmare.

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“In the Name of the Father”

This was another fantastic episode of IT: Welcome to Derry.

So much happened here.

• Leroy slapped Will when Will defied him and said he would never let his friends die.
• Ingrid is the daughter of Pennywise (The sequence in black and white flashback was as intense as we have had so far).
• Marge stood up to the popular girls.
• Marge and Rich had several cool moments.
• Rich played the drums at the Black Spot.
• What is up with that bartender serving liquor to Marge and Rich?
• Dick is having serious problems since coming out of the sewer.
• Hank and Ronnie are reunited at the Black Spot.
• Ronnie refuses to be with the others and try to go and kill Pennywise.
• The sheriff lost his job, but leads a armed group in masks to the Black Spot after Hank.
• The flashback to Mabel in 1935 was frightening.
• Charlotte tells Leroy she is taking Will out of Derry tomorrow, after helping Hank.
• Ingrid was dressed as a clown and was the person photographed and who Will saw outside his window.

There was so much going down and yet it felt like the show flew by. This is a sign of a beautifully paced show.

Pennywise is absolutely terrifying this episode and him eating poor little Mabel was just a horrendous thing.

Will is a real hero. He is so brave and not afraid to stand up to anyone, including his father.

I love, love, love Rich and Marge. Their scenes were so wonderful this episode. The changing of the dressing on her eye, her standing up to the popular girls, them drinking and Marge dancing to Rich’s drumming. Such a cool group of scenes. I hope they survive.

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“Neibolt Street“

We have now officially seen Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the sewers of Derry. He is as frightening as ever.

I have to say, that I immediately really wanted that to be Matty… but I knew it wasn’t. Actor Miles Ekhardt looked amazing with his long hair and his white complexion. It was obviously a trap, but, man, I was hoping that Matty somehow defied logic and survived.

Of course, he did not.

When Matty changed into Pennywise, that was just terrifying. For a moment, too, I thought Lilly was a goner. I did not have any idea how she was getting out of that sewer. The magical rod (which was the piece of his cage that Daniel had brought in to the sewers and lost) stopping Pennywise in his place… awesome.

Of course, as soon as I saw Pennywise take the form of Charlotte and confront Leroy, I knew the kids, who were real and in the sewer, were in danger of being shot. I am glad they weren’t and I think Pauly needs more credit than he received for saving those kids lives. He took that bullet to stop Leroy from shooting Will.

We discovered the white woman that Hank was having his affair with… it was Mrs. Kersh. After the prison bus to Shawshank is attacked, Hank escapes and went to Mrs. Kersh for help.

Oh.. and Dick Hallorann … poor Dick Hallorann. He went through it…and he does not seem to be in his right mind yet.

Great episode. Very excited to see Bill Skarsgård in his clown attire.

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“The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet’s Function”

Hm.

We got the origin of Pennywise, or the Galloo, what the Native American people called it. I’m not sure that I understood how everything happened. I guess the town of Derry was built inside the circle that they trapped it in.

I like Charlotte a lot. She went to the police in order to try and talk with Hank, Ronnie’s father. She is able to get in to see him, and we find out why he is lying about his alibi, and it was not connected to Pennywise. It was the racism of the time as he was having an affair with a married white woman.

The most horrific moment of the week was when Marge tried to use a table saw to cut out her extended eyeballs, thanks to her fear of her glasses making her eyes look like they bulge out. We heard about that in episode one or two and now it pays itself off. It was a scene where I was literally screaming for Marge to not do what she was going to do.

Of course, poor Lilly, who saved Marge’s life, is made to look like she had attacked her, as the entire lunchroom came to see the events. Not a good look for Lilly.

Dick used his shining to get inside the head of Daniel to find out about the pillars, which apparently are in the IT house where we know the well is located.

We are now half way through the season and we have yet to see clown Pennywise. However, the previews for upcoming weeks had some horrible scenes featuring Pennywise, so he is coming.

Oh, those floating red balloons… creepy!

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“The Thing in the Dark”

We have not seen the Pennywise clown version as of yet, and that is pretty cool. We definitely see the shape-shifting clown in other forms… and those forms are absolutely gross and frightening. The fang-filled vagina of Ronnie’s mother…. and the pickle jar with pieces of Lilly’s father. Man, those were rough.

The show is looking at the racism of the time more than the IT movies did. The racism in Derry was definitely in the movies, but this feels like a new level of focus on it. It has a feel much like Watchmen and Lovecraft Country. The smartest characters of the show seem to be the people of color.

We are introduced to a couple new kids in the show after the slaughter at the theater last week. Poor Lilly was facing her own struggles and the sheriff trying to get her to change her story about that night in order to get Ronnie’s father as the killer. Lilly kept saying that she did not see her father that night. The sheriff manipulates her to give him something he can use to arrest him.

We get the driving force behind the use of the military in this show. We learn that the military is in search of a weapon they can use in the Cold War. It is a weapon that can create fear in any man. It is clearly Pennywise that they are searching for.

There are a lot of really great scenes in this episode, including one in a jail cell involving a Russian gun. IT: Welcome to Derry has been very good so far, with amazing visuals and a group of intriguing characters.