Warning! This review contains spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode 5.

It: Welcome to Derry floats into the back end of its first season with a game-changing twist, a bunch of compelling character moments, and the long-awaited appearance of a certain dancing clown. Right off the bat, Matty’s return is a great midseason twist. Miles Ekhardt does an incredible job of showing the impact of the trauma of being trapped in the sewer with Pennywise. He’s pale as a ghost, visibly shaken, and seems to have aged years since we last saw him a few weeks ago.

The kids in Welcome to Derry ’s new Losers’ Club are all wonderfully endearing, but the deliberation over whether or not to go to the police takes up a lot of airtime. The movies did a better job of establishing that the grownups are

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