"Like Pennywise himself, director Andy Muschietti knows how to make an entrance. Across both IT (2017) and IT: Chapter Two (2019), Bill Skarsgard's demonic entity occasionally slithers into frame, slowly and eerily, through the cracks of what's polite and what's plausible, before bursting like a hideous geyser to terrify some helpless child. Muschietti's edge as a director shined in his Pennywise setpiecesthe lesser quality of Chapter Two notwithstanding. (Even still: The scene between Jessica Chastain and Joan Gregson as Mrs. Kersh? Paralyzing.)"
"Because maximizing shareholder value is paramount these days, nothing stays in the dark forever. And so we return to Muschietti's interpretation of Stephen King's literary tome with IT: Welcome to Derry, a new HBO series helmed by Muschietti along with his producing partner/sister Barbara Muschietti and screenwriter Jason Fuchs. Cynical as we ought to be about Welcome to Derry as yet another instance of a big studio leveraging its IP library for quarterly growth, it feels right that Muschietti still sits in control."
"It's for the better that this prequel feel like an extension of the duology rather than a prolonged prologue. This is still Derry, Maine as seen in those movies, where a nostalgic Americana hides all of its cruelty beneath a veneer of politeness. Handsome production design and muscular sequences of trauma-inducing terror were the markers of Muschietti's films, and it's thrilling to see more of that in the first episode of Welcome to Derry."
Andy Muschietti returns to Pennywise with IT: Welcome to Derry, an HBO prequel series co-led with Barbara Muschietti and screenwriter Jason Fuchs. The series functions as an extension of the previous films rather than a prolonged prologue, preserving a nostalgic Americana that conceals cruelty beneath polite surfaces. The pilot emphasizes handsome production design and muscular, trauma-inducing setpieces that deliver slow, eerie buildups and sudden, visceral jolts. The episode introduces the main children, eliminates some early, and re-establishes Derry, Maine, as a place where childhood rites and adult horrors collide.
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