IT: Welcome to Derry premiered its second episode on HBO Max today, two days earlier than scheduled, making your Halloween even sweeter.

The prequel series, co-created by Andy and Barbara Muschietti (the duo behind 2017's It movie and 2019's sequel), takes audiences back to the Stephen King cinematic universe, where Pennywise, an extra-dimensional being that eventually takes the form of an evil clown, terrorizes the fictional town of Derry, Maine, every 27 years.

Episode 2, titled The Thing in the Dark, stays in 1962 and follows the small-town community as it deals with the shocking act of violence that wiped out a group of kids I thought were the show's main players.

The episode hones in on Lilly Bainbridge, the girl at the center of the story, and, unexpectedly, d

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