So far, this season of It: Welcome to Derry is 0 for 2 on Pennywise appearances but 2 for 2 on horrifying birth sequences. Besides that both sequences were gross, it was lazy storytelling to use birth two episodes in a row.

The worst element of the It prequel is that the scariness is undermined by the over dependence on awful special effects. How hard is it to get some fake blood splattered all over that car? Call Noah Wyle and have him bring some from his ranch up north. Okay, maybe huge blood sequences like those in Stephen King’s most famous (and least favorite?) adaptation, The Shining, are hard to achieve, but it would have been worth it for the scariness factor.

Even if the two birth sequences had used more tactile elements, it still would have been disappointing that the show us

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