IT: Welcome to Derry
Created by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs
In 1962, amid a spate of unexplained disappearances of local children, a group of misfit friends begin to suspect a long-buried ancient evil lurking. As the kids set out to determine what's really going on, a rising unease prompts several townspeople to work together to restore peace – all while a U.S. military operation seeks to exploit Derry for its own objectives. From TMDB
8 reactions from 2 sources (TMDB reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 20, 2026 · last updated Oct 9, 2026 · How this works
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 166 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "While scattered plotting occasionally drains the fear from its chilling premise, It: Welcome to Derry compellingly deepens the myth of Pennywise through sharp social commentary, a dreadful atmosphere, and committed performances." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 61 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Chris Hayner for Polygon called the series an "excellent prequel" and said that he was more interested in the lore of Derry and the influence of Pennywise on…
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8 of 8 · most liked firstNew look at Pennywise in the ‘IT’ prequel series ‘IT: WELCOME TO DERRY’
unlabelledView post →The show creators, including Bill Skarsgård, clearly don’t understand the IT at all and use the character to build cheap, nonsensical scenes that are supposed to be scary or emotional. They try to make everything grander by including military, they try to make everything more personal by including Pennywises daughter, they try to make everything more meaningful by including overtly racist subplot. Everything must be explored and shouted, like the viewer isn’t capable of figuring these things…
negative · AI labelView post →I maybe overhyped this to myself but I was generally underwhelmed. It wasn't bad but it didn't hold up to the movies for me
neutral · AI labelView post →Absolutely amazing. The casting and the acting was done so well. The graveyard scene was so bad but other than that all the episodes were amazing, dare i say this is the best one yet in the IT franchise they've made. The kids were definitely i wasn't expecting, they did their characters so well! The way they portray in Derry was so chilling and the fact that Pennywise amplify their hatred in fear during those times were so downright terrifying, the rcasim, social injustice, etc. Props to the…
unlabelledView post →IT's hard to make a prequel series after the success of the newest IT films with all the knowledge of how things turn out. My hope going into this series was it would go into how Pennywise came to be. And while it did to some degree, it really didn't explain much. Production value was great, but the story was a hot mess that hinged on 'the power of friends' being what over comes this demonic entity. Oh well. Maybe the second season will be better?
neutral · AI labelView post →Fog, Fear, and Family Curses: Welcome to Derry Season 1 Review HBO's Welcome to Derry Season 1 chills the spine of Stephen King's It universe, unearthing 1962 Derry's festering secrets in a taut eight-episode prequel. Showrunners Andy Muschietti and Tommy Brennan sidestep the Losers' glow, spotlighting the town's doomed denizens: pie-baking matriarchs, boozy cops, and wide-eyed kids teetering on Pennywise's abyss. It's folk horror distilled—less spectacle, more soul-rot—building from insidious…
positive · AI labelView post →"IT Welcome to Derry" is horrifying for all the wrong reasons. This is a lobotomised, grotesque, over the top, wholly wrong headed, poorly scripted mess. A largely unrecognisable departure from the vastly superior novel and films. The only real upsides I can see is quality acting and solid production values but that is seriously, as far as this series, gets. In summary, no doubt the marketing gremlins will try telling us how "wonderful" this is. That said, fans, like myself, who have read Kings…
negative · AI labelView post →The show is written for pre-teens and it feels like a silly WB series 🤢 I'm really disappointed with this latest TV show from HBO. The acting is absolutely atrocious, and the writing isn't much better. And I never notice stuff like CGI, but some of the "monster" special effects in this look sloppy or something, like they were thrown together on an internet cafe computer. We literally laughed out loud at some of these "scary" scenes. Anyway I thought it was going to be a somewhat serious horror…
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