2025
Four months later, we meet a group of kids investigating their missing friend Matty, plus there’s this whole separate storyline about a Black Air Force pilot dealing with racism on a secretive military base in 1962 Derry. The kids have visions, hear voices coming through the pipes in their houses, and end up at a movie theater where the demon baby is back for round two, and it kills three of them (just as we were getting to know them! dang!)
I have no idea what this show is actually about yet. There’s the kids’ story, there’s the military conspiracy thread, there’s Pennywise presumably lurking somewhere (though he’s barely in this episode, if at all?), and none of it connects in any way that makes sense. The demon baby looked ridiculous. The writing overall isn’t great. Masked men attack a soldier on a military base to steal secrets and then just… leave when his buddy shows up with a pipe? And nobody calls security? The guy doesn’t even shut his door? But I liked these kids anyway, maybe because I already have a built-in fondness for King’s kid characters. That ending surprised me – killing off most of the kids we’d just spent an hour with was unexpected and brutal.
I’ll probably stick around to see where this is headed, unless I forget about it entirely and never watch it again, which happens 99% of the time. (For example, I still haven’t watched episode two of Alien Earth, ha!)
I watched Welcome to Derry on Hulu.
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Susan says
I’ve tried not to read too much about this series before watching but after the first episode, I’m not sure I see the point. We will probably watch at least one more episode, but it was a big eye roll from me.
I kind of checked out after the “lost my mood ring” story. I got mine when they came out in 1975, 10+ years after the setting of the show. Not an obscure thing to check -such lazy writing.
Kendall Morgan says
Oh you have to get on Alien Earth it’s so good!