US Edition‘Welcome to Derry’ Episode 6 Perfectly Sets up Season 2’s Storyline, and Pennywise’s Daughter May Be Key
Episode 6 uses a 1935 flashback to deepen Stephen King's mythos, linking Ingrid Kersh and Pennywise, and setting up a multi-season arc focused on IT's origins.
- Episode 6 peels back Ingrid Kersh's origins through an extended black-and-white flashback set in 1935, pushing Madeleine Stowe's Ingrid to the story's center and confirming a fan theory about the 'real' Ingrid.
- Though not yet renewed, a writers' room has been active since June as HBO deliberately shifts the timeline to build momentum toward a Season 2 set in that year and lays groundwork for multiple seasons.
- At Juniper Hill in 1935, Ingrid Kersh works as a nurse, leads a young patient to Pennywise in the boiler room, and later assumes her Periwinkle persona while retelling the event in 1962.
- The episode recontextualizes earlier season moments and cements Ingrid Kersh as a tragic, morally fractured figure while confirming the clown near young Will Hanlon and the cemetery ghost scene was not Pennywise, with series producers teasing an ending twist explaining the backward time shift.
- Season 2 is expected to unfold entirely this year, digging deeper into Ingrid Kersh's link to Pennywise and the Periwinkle persona, while Season 3 could depict the tragic event severing their bond.
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That already reached us, we have no way out.The universe created by Stephen King continues to expand through It: Welcome to Derry, the prequel that explores the origin of the terror that inhabits the village of Maine long before the history of the Losers Club, narrated in the movies of That (2017 and 2019).After a fifth episode that brought the story to the dreaded Neibolt Street and marked the return of Bill Skarsgård as the clown Pennywise, th…
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It: Welcome to Derry Season 1 is officially past the point of holding back. Episode 6, “In the Name of the Father,” unleashes Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise in full force and pushes the series deeper into the creature’s twisted history. Along with the escalating horror, the episode delivers one of the most important pieces of It mythology since Stephen King published the original novel almost four decades ago. Thanks to a chilling return to the home…
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