There are great evils lurking in the dark of It: Welcome to Derry , the new hit HBO show set in the world of Stephen King’s famous novel about a demonic homicidal clown who preys on children in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. From jump scares to tons of body horror, the spinoff prequel of Andy Muschietti’s hit It movies has concocted a highly effective fear-inducing cocktail. And yet, if the most recent episode—Episode 2, titled “The Thing in the Dark”—tells us anything, it’s that there are “things” that are even scarier than whichever monsters go bump in the night. For the handful of Derry’s Black residents, the evils that happen in broad daylight are far more dangerous and fearsome. Much to its credit, and unlike some of today’s other fantasy-horror shows , Welcome to De

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