News Summary

• HBO's It: Welcome to Derry is a spinoff of Andy Muschietti’s hugely successful two-part film series It (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019) The show is a half-baked attempt at a prequel, an elaborate but ultimately vapid work of King fanfiction dumped into an entertainment landscape that already boasts no shortage of such endeavors.
• In the hands of an inventive writers’ room, any number of these events could have been blown out into a whole season of compelling television.