"What scares an American?": It's Not Woke, Welcome to Derry Had One Major Reason For Showing Racism in America

"What scares an American?": It's Not Woke, Welcome to Derry Had One Major Reason For Showing Racism in America

IT: Welcome to Derry is set in 1960s America and features black characters who are fighting their own battles for equality and justice, even as Derry is gripped by evil. In a roundtable interview (via Hindustan Times), co-showrunner Brad Caleb Kane talks about the choice for the time-setting: What scares an American? What scares someone in 1962 versus what might be scary to someone in ’89 or the present day in the films? And so, it’s the Cold Wa…