This article contains spoilers for "It: Welcome to Derry" season 1, episode 2, "The Thing in the Dark."

Based on its first two episodes, "It: Welcome to Derry" seems intent on filling a self-imposed quota of at least two soul-scarringly innovative scare sequences per episode. However, the show has more to it than just horror. Since "Welcome to Derry" is an "It" prequel series that's based on the loose timeline of awful events in Derry's history and aims to tell Pennywise the clown's (Bill Skarsgård) real origin story straight from Stephen King , it dumps plenty of deep-cut lore on the viewer. The presence of young Dick Hallorann (Chris Chalk), for instance, links "Welcome to Derry" to King's "The Shining" while still remaining faithful to the show's source material — after all, Ha

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