Welcome To Derry: HBO IT prequel show aka “ITT we talk about IT” or “Down here we all reboot/float/etc”

New show on HBO set up as a companion prequel series to the recent “IT” movies (ie the Bill Skarskgard drooly Pennywise jobs) and the Stephen King book etc

Episode 1 went up Sunday night
Who’s in?

I liked the first ep well enough, hints at having a bit of gonzo-King in the tank for some of the crazy nightmare-fuel stuff, but at times felt a little yadda yadda kids, mystery, meet in secret place, etc

so we’ll see!

bingo card so far
(these aren’t really spoilers i dont think? )

- a Paul Bunyan statue reference
- IT canon character connections:
Teddy is Stan Uris’s uncle;
Col Leroy Hanlon is Mike Hanlon’s grandad
- Drain-Talk! we got talking from inside drains (also talk abt drains)
- TURTLE

tbh this is corny to say, but as such a lifelong fan of King and IT the novel specifically, revisiting a past version of Derry is v enjoyable to me! it’s like my fictional hometown but for nightmare-fuel experiences

like gah! the theater, gah! the water tower, gah! the school library, gah! chinese restaurant etc etc

(even though yes i know timeline for this show is diff to novel blah blah etc etc)

I'll give it a whirl.

sorry for multi posting itt but in my flurry i forgot to share actual useful context

Welcome To Derry creators have said that the show draws some of its story from the Interludes in the original King novel, ie it will cover the fire at the Black Spot juke joint, for example

and:
bingo card addition
Dick Halloran

gathering that this is not a Derry Girls sequel?

heh, I literally thought this must be a Derry Girls spinoff when I saw it on the torrents

Get out of here with this Derry Girls nonsense--this is Stephen King world.

I liked the first episode a lot, but was it just me or did the aerial shots of Derry look way too CGI? took me out a few times.

was hoping this wasn't gonna be worth watching because my tv show backlog is large and my time is short lol. assuming this is (so far) way better than the dumb dune prequel that i didn't bother to finish?

this is also a prequel to Dune

brig-a-dune

yeah Dune Prophecy prequel was really bad. This is not that at all imo

First episode was good

Wasn't expecting most of the kids to get killed at the end though and hope they don't pull some kind of fake out in the next episode

yeah i’m even more curious abt the series now because of that!

Didn’t know this was a thing until I saw a poster of it in Basel today. Any good?

if anyone is a fan of the Kingcast podcast, the current hosts have a new standalone watch-along podcast for Welcome to Derry called “Watching IT: Welcome to Derry” that just started this wk

xpost it has potential to be really good - i’ll say after first ep that it’s promising?

I’ll go with it, I need a new show to watch and I’ve been recently reading some of his short stories

It’s by the same ppl that made the atrocious films idk if I can put myself through eight more hours of that

i liked the first one well enough, the 2nd one was not as good imo

i don't think i ever saw the second one. missed it in theaters and just haven't wanted to spend the 3 hours

it’s a lot shaggier than the first one imo

For me the first “chapter” is merely very bad, 2nd is legit one of the worst films I’ve ever suffered thru

Both shit qua movie and a baffling waste of source material, maybe these chumps have learned to do it but I don’t have much hope. Funny to think there’s a world where Cory Fukunaga made them instead of rando hacks, an hbo series of the interludes would be a bit more of an interesting proposition there

*cary ffs

I'm with wins, although for me the first Muscietti IT was worse. I will never need to revisit them. My big complaint about both IT adaptations was that they neglected the Derry Interludes from the book, and I know that's supposed to be what the series revolves around, but I can't.

For those of you who are continue to thrust your fists against the posts and still insist you see the ghosts, may the turtle help you.

tough crowd

Enjoyed the nod to “The Mangler”

I’m still mostly enjoying this after Ep2. Loved Mom Hanlon being the only one seeing Derry as it truly is, that whole sequence was great.

I think the dream sequences are so impressive at heightening that incremental fear up and up and up until it just turns completely batshit. Really good visuals & effects.

but omg miss me with the “Top Secret Weapon…(dramatic pause)… Powered By Fear”
loooool come ON we’re really doing THAT!?

like of all the dumb shit

anyway, I guess i’m on this stupid train too now jfc

choo choo

I don’t know if an IT thread is the right place for train references.

I’ll allow it!

I'm enjoying this despite it having some atrocious dialogue spoken by the kids. the two who bit the dust in the first episode really had some preposterously unbelievable lines. I'm with everyone else who disliked the films; first one ok, second one god awful. This looks like we'll get some turtle action.

I started watching this and just paused to say, and I appreciate that this is very minor, but it doesn’t seem that likely that a kid making his bar mitzvah in the early 60s would be hearing about the Holocaust for the first time at that age?

Yeah I don’t care for this military plotline at all

I don’t know if an IT thread is the right place for train references.

Ep2. Loved Mom Hanlon being the only one seeing Derry as it truly is, that whole sequence was great

Iirc this reminded me of a scene in IT with Beverley being chased by her dad, and people just look away or close their doors. Just the ambient level of evil in the town.

the way the gang of boys stare her down, dead-eyed like a pack of wolves was scary as hell

Enjoying this but yeah the military plot just seems wtf

The two dream sequences this episode were fantastic and seemed very much in tune with those from the novel.

the military plot is going to wind up being the entire plot by the end I'm quite sure

i havent watched ep3 yet but i have started another reread of IT :D

we’re floatin!

is 3 out already? I thought it moved to sundays now

oh wait - yes you’re right