It Welcome to Derry
Came out; 2025
Episodes: 5
Where to Watch: Max
Rated: TV-MA
Rating 7.7/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Cast
Jovan Adepo as Leroy Hanlon
Bill Skarshard as Pennywise
Taylour Paige as Charlotte Hanlon
Matilda Lawler as Marge Truman
Amanda Christine as Ronnie Grogan
Clara Stack as Lilly Bainbridge
Child Chalk as Dick Hallorann
James Remar as General Francis Shaw
Stephen Rider as Hank Rider
Blake Cameron James as Will Hanlon
Caution: Spoiler Alert
Story Line:
In 1962, a couple with their son move to Derry, Maine just as a young boy disappears. With their arrival, very bad things begin to happen in the town.
Thoughts:
OMG I loved every single second of this
It was creepy, intriguing and totally kept interest
My only regret is not waiting until all episodes were out and I could binge watch it one after another. I do wish it was more clear on who the kids become as adults.
So many things were explained, the graphic and visuals were amazing, the freeze frame with all the teeth out was awesome! I will be watching this again
Episode Guide
Episode 1 The Pilot
In 1962, a boy named Matty Clements asks a family to take him out of Derry, and the journey becomes increasingly strange as the family's behavior worsens; the woman gives birth to a mutant baby who attacks Matty. Four months later, Major Leroy Hanlon arrives at the Derry military base and experiences a racist incident. Lilly Bainbridge has a horrific vision of Matty singing a song and sees his bloody fingers from her bathtub; Lilly tells her friends Marge, Teddy Uris, and Phil Malkin about the vision, but no one believes her. Teddy later has a horrific vision of a human lampshade screaming at him. Lilly, Teddy, and Phil search for information about Matty's disappearance; they find Ronnie Grogan, who tells them that she has also heard children's voices coming from the sewers near the movie theater, singing the same song as Matty. Leroy is ambushed by masked men and is saved by his friend and partner, Pauly Russo. The group, accompanied by Phil's sister Susie, goes to the movies in search of answers, and Ronnie puts on a film where they see Matty, who blames them before releasing the mutant baby, which kills everyone except Lilly, whom Ronnie rescues.
Episode 2 The Thing in the Dark
The police investigate Ronnie's father Hank, who is suspected of the murder and disappearance of the children. Leroy suspects their attack was orchestrated by Soviet spies while Sergeant Masters is imprisoned for it. Leroy's wife Charlotte walks through Derry and tries to break up a fight, but receives disapproving looks from the adults. Ronnie has a vision of her deceased mother. The army searches the woods for something with the help of Dick Hallorann, under the watchful eyes of Native Americans. Ronnie tells Lilly about her vision, and they discuss the version Lilly gave to the police. Leroy's son Will struggles to adjust, but he befriends Ronnie and Cuban American Rich. Chief Clint Bowers blackmails Lilly, and the police arrest Hank; Ronnie confronts Lilly at her home. Leroy exonerates Masters as one of the attackers. General Francis Shaw tells Leroy that he orchestrated the attack to test his fear and that only he can retrieve a "weapon" that instills a mortal fear in anyone. After another vision, Lilly returns to Juniper Hill, a psychiatric hospital. The army finds a car with corpses inside, a beacon to locate the weapon.
Episode 3 Now You See It
In 1908, a young Shaw has a vivid experience of a terrifying-looking man who stalks and pursues him when he is saved by a young Native American named Rose; they leave the forest and she explains what that thing is. After that, Shaw and Rose spent the entire summer together until Shaw left Derry. In the present, Lilly is abandons Juniper Hill; in school, Lilly and Ronnie plan to obtain visual evidence to exonerate Hank. Shaw, after finding nothing useful in the car, sends Hallorann to use his psychic abilities on air. Hallorann has a vision of soldiers dying on battlefields in a war and of bodies floating before escaping; Leroy saves Hallorann from falling out of the helicopter. Shaw visits Rose at her pawn shop about her cease and desist letter and lies to her about the reason for the excavations. Lilly and Ronnie recruit Will and Rich into their plan, and Rich claims that the thing is an orisha, an evil spirit; the group sets out to summon it. They go to a cemetery for the ritual when they discover that Rich is not sure if it will work. As they leave, they have a vision of Teddy and Susie's spirits chasing them. They manage to take pictures, of which one shows a clown.
Episode 4 The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet's Function
The group takes the photos to Bowers, but when he looks at them, the spirits are nowhere to be seen. Leroy takes Will fishing, where the latter has a vision that tells him that he will die in flames; Leroy rescues him and sees burns on Will, who warns him about something evil in Derry. With his friends, Will theorizes that this evil wants to increase their fear to devour them. Charlotte visits Hank to help him with his case; Hank confesses to having an affair with a married white woman that night. Marge tries to play a cruel prank on Lilly, but has a vision in which her eyes pop out and mutilates one in fright before Lilly intervenes. Will sees a clown watching him from his window, and when Leroy goes outside, he sees a red balloon. Hallorann enters the mind of Rose's nephew Taniel, and discovers the entity's origin and how it gained more power as it killed, and how the natives imprisoned it in the place that is now Derry. Taniel shows Hallorann that the entity is in the Neibolt Street house.
Episode 5 29 Neibolt Street
Shaw tells Leroy that his plan is to obtain the pillars containing the entity so they can control it. The group finds Matty at their meeting place and reveals that Phil is alive. The natives comment that, just as when it awakens, a deadly and violent act is imminent before the entity sleeps for 27 years and repeats its cycle. Rose tries to get Shaw to stop trying to capture the entity, but to no avail. Hank is sent to Shawshank State Prison, but the bus crashes and he escapes. The kids, along with Matty and the newly arrived Marge, venture into the sewers in search of Phil, taking Lilly's mother's pills to relax; the pills drug them. The army enters with Taniel, but the mission begins to go awry. The kids discover the bodies of their friends just as Matty transforms into Pennywise, so they flee. Leroy and Pauly encounter the kids; Leroy fires thinking it is an illusion, but Pauly intervenes, knowing they are real, and is killed. Pennywise tries to eat Lilly, but the pillar prevents him, and he retreats. Hank finds Ingrid in her car and tells her what to do to save him; Ingrid visits Charlotte. Hallorann emerges from the sewers and sees a dead Pauly.
Episode 6 The Name of the Father
Leroy scolds Will for being in the sewers and orders him to stay at the base for safety, but Will confronts him and Leroy slaps him. Lilly shows the group the pillar that saved her, and when she plans to return to kill the entity, she and Ronnie have a heated exchange. Hank takes refuge in the Black Spot until Charlotte can get him out of Derry, much to Hallorann's dismay. Leroy suggests using Hallorann's enhanced gift to find the pillars, much to Hallorann's anger. Marge confronts her former friend group, the Pattycakes, as she and Rich get closer. Lilly discovers that Ingrid was the clown they saw in previous experiences, as she was searching for Pennywise, her father. She explains that her father left, but she stayed in Derry. In 1935, she saw Pennywise disguised as her father, killing a girl at Juniper Hill, but justifies that entity as his father and its killing of children by her father's experiences in those years apart. Ingrid proposes Lilly to go with her and let the entity become her father, but Lilly runs away. Bowers, relieved from his position, receives a tip-off about Hank's location and leads a group of armed masked men to the Black Spot.
Episode 7 The Black Spot
In 1908, Bob Gray, Ingrid's father and Pennywise's performer, is lured into the woods by the entity disguised as a child and never returns. In the present, Bowers' mob arrives at the Black Spot demanding Hank, and when the patrons refuse, they set the building on fire. Hallorann saves Hank, Ronnie, and Will, while Rich dies protecting Marge, who survives. Ingrid, in her Periwinkle costume, arrives as Pennywise kills her husband Stan after feeding on the victims; realizing he is not her father, Pennywise shows her the deadlights, leaving her catatonic. Marge and Ronnie inform a paranoid Lilly, increasingly attached to the pillar, about Rich's death. Hallorann, sensing Pennywise entered hibernation, leads the military to a pillar, which they remove and burn, while Shaw tells Leroy he intends to free Pennywise and use its powers to control Americans. Meanwhile, Rose hides Hank, believed dead, but Pennywise reawakens, appears at Will's house, and shows him the deadlights.
Episode 8 Winter Fire
A dense fog descends on Derry as Pennywise kills the school principal and lures most of the children to the auditorium, where he hypnotizes them and begins taking them away. Ronnie, Lilly, and Marge follow him, while Pennywise taunts Leroy about Will. Leroy seeks Hallorann's help, and with Rose's special tea, Hallorann silences the voices and tracks Lilly's dagger. Pennywise separates Marge, sensing her future son Richie Tozier and his friends will cause Pennywise's death. Hallorann freezes Pennywise long enough to free Will and the other children as the others arrive, but Shaw and the military intervene, killing Taniel and detaining the adults. Pennywise kills Shaw and pursues the children as they try to restore the "cage". The adults subdue the soldiers and shoot Pennywise, slowing him until Rich's spirit appears and helps complete the ritual, imprisoning Pennywise. After Rich's funeral, Ronnie and Will share a kiss before she and Hank leave Derry, Hallorann leaves to work as a chef at a hotel, Charlotte and a honorably discharged Leroy stay, and Ingrid is institutionalized. Twenty-six years later, Ingrid witnesses Elfrida Marsh's suicide and meets her daughter, Beverly.
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