With a heart-wrenching climactic set-piece and a devastating loss, It: Welcome to Derry ’s penultimate episode has set a very high bar for the season finale. The episode opens in 1908, where we get a glimpse of Pennywise’s show before he became a demon who periodically haunts children. The sad-clown routine and the braying fans make him oddly sympathetic before we get another piece of his origin story. Welcome to Derry ’s revelations about Pennywise’s backstory haven’t been everyone’s cup of tea — especially the controversial twist that Ingrid is Pennywise’s daughter , desperately searching for him — but it’s been interesting to see where he came from.

But that’s not the centerpiece of this episode; the centerpiece of the episode is, of course, the fire at the Black Spot . Thi

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