The first episode of It: Welcome to Derry is a surprisingly bloody testament to the vast creative freedom HBO granted the Muschietti brothers. No, the series, set in the creepy town of Derry long before the events of the first film in the franchise, is nothing like anything the franchise has done before. The pilot episode shows Derry steeped in a brutal and relentless nightmare that is only just beginning to get worse. We arrive just in time for the sadistic, Macroverse-born alien to exploit the town's sordid, moldy basement of traumas. Bad things have happened, are happening, and will continue to happen after the strange abduction of a sweet, lonely boy, Matty. And a warning: keep your children away from this. I'm not even sure Matty is enjoying Robert Preston's ominous "Ya Got Trouble" warnings at the Capitol Theatre. But the fact that teenagers are making out to "The Magic Man" says more about the scarcity of places to hang out in Derry than anything ...
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