There’s an alternate reality out there somewhere—albeit distressingly far from this one—in which HBO’s It: Welcome to Derry is a great television show. Welcome to Derry , premiering on Sunday, is a spinoff of Andy Muschietti’s hugely successful two-part film series It (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019), which was itself an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel of the same name. (Muschietti also co-developed and executive produced the new series.) Weighing in at over 1,000 pages, King’s It is a sprawling behemoth of a book, and the movie adaptations understandably left a lot of meat on the bone . It’s both surprising and ultimately frustrating, then, that Welcome to Derry isn’t so much a further adaptation of the novel as a half-baked attempt at a

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