Watch out for the red balloon: This article contains spoilers for "It: Welcome to Derry" season 1, episode 1, "The Pilot."

"It: Welcome to Derry" is a Pennywise (Bill Skarsgǻrd) origin story that's technically based on Stephen King's "It." In practice, though, it's only beholden to the rough historical timeline of the titular monster, as established in Andy Muschietti's "It" films and King's novel. This leaves a lot for the show to play with and interpret as it pleases ... and "The Pilot" proves that the show intends to do just that. How? By almost casually killing nearly every member of the show's version of the Losers Club.

After the episode has spent its early moments subjecting poor, doomed Matty (Miles Ekhardt) to the worst hitchhiking experience imaginable, it spends consid

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