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Why It: Welcome to Derry's [Spoiler] Didn't Want Pennywise to Murder Him

Episode 5 features the first full on-screen appearance of Pennywise the clown, with the season airing weekly on HBO and HBO Max through mid-December.

  • Today, Episode 5 of IT: Welcome to Derry premieres on HBO and HBO Max, revealing Pennywise as children and the military descend into Derry's sewers at 9 p.m. ET.
  • Based on Stephen King's novel, the series acts as a prequel to the 2017 and 2019 films, unfolding 27 years earlier and drawing on five interlude stories from Mike Hanlon's perspective in 1960s Derry, Maine.
  • Bill Skarsgård returns to play Pennywise, who was kept mostly in the shadows during the first four episodes, with Episode 5 showing the villain up close aside from earlier glimpses of glowing eyes.
  • During the Sunday, November 23 episode, several characters were killed: Teddy, Phil, and Susie were left in the sewer, Matty’s corpse was found underground, and Pauly sacrificed himself.
  • The series has drawn millions of viewers, the eight-episode first season runs through Dec. 14, and Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti say the show aims to shed light on lingering mysteries.
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Despite being one of the key actresses of the 1990s, Madeleine Stowe has been retired from the world of cinema for more than 15 years, with momentary appearances in television series that have continued to give her popularity.This has allowed us to see her again these days in It: Welcome to Derry, the prequel series by HBO Max.Madeleine Stowe interprets in this fiction Ingrid, the head of the cleaners of Juniper Hill, the psychiatric center of D…

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Tonight, that takes us to the sewers and Neibolt Street with the premiere of episode 5 of the It series: Welcome to Derry, the prequel set in the 1960s, in the universe created by Stephen King. Welcome to Derry, production of Warner Bros. Television and HBO, resumes the events prior to the It movies (2017 and 2019) to show us the origin of the evil that operates the picturesque town of Maine, where everything is rotten under the surface. The adv…

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