IT: Welcome to Derry - Episode One Review

Hello

everyone and welcome to the concession stand here on the KB radio network.

I am your host Kevin Reed and this is the review of HBO Max new

original series it welcome to dairy episode one which premiered on hbo max and hbo proper sunday october the 26th this brand new horror series is based on a stephen king 1986 novel it which we've seen a mini series from and

two theatrical films from just as recent as uh

2017 and 2019.

This comes from the director of those two recent films,

Annie Muschietti,

who directs this first episode of the show,

which serves as a prequel to the novel and those films.

And it's set in 1962 as a couple with their son move to Derry,

Maine,

just as a young boy disappears.

with their arrival

very bad things begin to happen in the town uh this it was like number one on my tv show list uh throughout the year i was i was super excited when they first announced this a couple years ago that

they were going to make a it tv show i'm like yeah give me that more pennywise the clown Please and

I really wanted to dive in to the lore

or history of Derry you know I wanted to see how Pennywise became Pennywise how the town of Derry is so cursed and you know just get a history of this cursed town if you will and this

isn't particularly that at least not um judging by the first episode things are already crazy in Derry where we pick up in this first episode but nonetheless I'm still excited for it

i'm gonna just right off the bat i i super enjoyed this first episode this first episode really set the tone going forward i don't know how it's gonna end up i don't know when the ball is gonna drop but just

judging off this first episode we're in for a real real good ride here this is gonna be horror personified annie muschietti who

I love his films.

I love the two of its films.

It Chapter 2 wasn't the greatest,

but there were some moments in that film that

I did enjoy.

It just didn't really live up to that first film in 2017.

And

I still enjoyed it nonetheless.

The flash aside,

which you can make some arguments that there were...

pieces of that film that were enjoyable but the film overall not so much and i did like mama uh i think that was it mama the film that he uh horror film he directed but i i do enjoy his works so

him diving back in this world plus he is still attached even though it hasn't been formally announced but he's still attached to direct batman brave in the boat um

we'll see how that go but as far as the here and now it welcome to dairy uh horror in his wheelhouse he he knocked this episode out the park i was all in from the opening scene to the final final

credits i was on the edge of my seat spooked out and everything else i didn't expect as much gore you know because it's tv

I know it's

HBO and HBO does not skip on the go or if you watch Game of Thrones or anything else that

HBO puts out but

I wasn't I still was kind of caught off guard with the level that this show went to within especially in the opening scene the opening scene of this show was horrifying

to me because

I thought back.

I thought back to when my...

wife gave birth to

my first daughter or actually in both experiences i saw more than i was supposed to see and it it scarred me for life and the opening scene was similar to

what i saw uh with the birth of my two daughters it it it i guess i had ptsd i was i was like oh my god you know but

In this case,

it was more brutal and horrifying and disgusting.

Then I remembered even seeing it in live action with my girls.

But this was completely unexpected.

I mean,

to really go in.

I mean,

you saw the actual birth of this mutant baby that came out.

Oh my God,

what is happening right now?

What am I watching?

What is,

is this,

is this it?

Is this the...

I don't know what's happening.

I was just blown away by the level of gore there.

But it doesn't deter me from the show.

I was still in it.

I was like,

you know,

my eyes were fixed on it.

But this is a show that has set up.

Going by this first episode,

we're only going by the first episode because that's all I saw.

You don't know what's going to happen throughout this season.

You

honestly don't know uh because we are set up just like the 2017 film you're set up with a group of losers that's what that group was called in the books and everything else these kids and that that's what made the first uh film so exciting the the

uh kids in that movie and we have a set of kids here and we're pretty much going on that same journey that the kids in the 2017 film

uh went through and so i'm like okay we're just gonna get the uh 1962 version of that all right that's fine i'm cool with it let's let's see if you're gonna do something different and oh my god did

they not do something different this was uh uh uh this is set up to whereas you don't know who's gonna live or die throughout the course of this season

heroes that you thought were gonna last they didn't they didn't i thought it was certain people in this show that i thought okay that's who we're gonna follow oh nope not them and so it's gonna be this but no well nope not them either so

it's it's it's crazy i and i love that i love the fact that i can't predict what's gonna happen i don't know what's gonna happen next I don't know who's going to survive.

That's the whole point of watching shows like this,

watching movies of this caliber and so on and so forth.

That's what keeps you interested and that's what keeps you coming back week to week.

Dave,

when he went in with the kids murdering,

getting murdered,

not murdering,

but getting murdered here.

Yeah.

Spoiler alert.

Yes,

there are kids that get murdered in this show.

I mean,

if you watched it

if you know about the story if you read the books kids get murdered all the time all the movies all whatever uh iteration of it you've watched or read kids get murdered so uh there's nothing new here you get that here but i didn't really expect the

level or or the amount that were taken out in one episode it blew my mind and i am all in

all invested i will say that i'm impressed with these kids uh the ones that they uh cast in this show i don't know all their names so i'm not gonna begin to run them down but they they did an excellent job and i guess that that

really made their deaths even more impactful and so i give kudos to annie muschietti and whoever else were in charge of casting

these young actors in these roles because i'm thinking like okay this is the hero of the story no it wasn't no they're not and i love the fact that every kid here have

the same or similar uh uh uh mannerisms or or or personalities as the kids that we know from the movie and it

It just...

threw you back into that vibe especially if you're a fan of that and you have to be a fan if you really if you dove into this show and so yeah it really kept uh kept that tone but it was just a more brutal level than

what we got in the film and hey zero complaints from me i i loved it and in the little B plot that we got going on.

of course we got the little reach it's 1962 so you put uh black people in a a predominantly white town yes you're gonna have racial undertones and they did not uh

sugarcoat it at all there and i i appreciated it they they confronted it head on so hey man i'm i'm good with that and i want to see where that goes with this Colonel.

who's on his military base with an all-white uh crew who don't like him because he woke up black that morning and and that's that's gonna continue on throughout the series as well so there's a lot going on it's not just um

this this supernatural element that's looming over dairy main and keep this in mind.

This first episode we haven't got a mention

a glimpse or a silhouette of pennywise we haven't even gotten to that yet and we and i'm already excited and happy with this show so uh my

excitement level is at a 10 right now but you know i'm trying to temper those because i don't want it to come crashing and burning as we go along in this season and we get

the typical throwaway episode here stupid plot line here that has nothing to do with the story and it doesn't push the story along

I know that that's a possibility to come ahead but if we're just judging episode 1 which we are

I am super super excited and happy and give kudos to everybody and

But I would love to know what are your thoughts of it.

Welcome to Theory,

Season 1,

Chapter,

no,

not Chapter,

but Episode 1 on

HBO Max.

Did you enjoy it as much as I did?

Are you a fan of the Stephen King material?

And do you think this show is doing just now?

This has nothing to do with the novel.

This is a separate story.

It's serving as a.

prequel to all of that so it doesn't really uh connect in that way you know canon wise this is a brand new canon it is connected because one of the characters i can't think of his name uh the black actor in

there he plays a character that's in the shining the black guy that uh scatman uh uh oh what's his name uh he passed away years ago but uh

the one black man in the shining it shouldn't it shouldn't even i don't even know why i'm sitting there trying to force you to uh uh remember who it is it's only one black man in the shining and that's the character that this character is based on and so it connects to other stephen king um works

as well so it it serves a bigger purpose man look i'm all in on this i don't i don't care I'm only in...

I am happy.

I want to know,

are you just as happy?

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i don't know i don't want to commit to doing every week just yet but i i will do once the season is over i definitely will do a full season review but uh we'll see

We'll see how I feel after every Sunday.

There's a lot.

Sundays are very busy for me.

And so

I'm going to try,

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Continue to love everyone.

And until we speak again,

you all be blessed.

IT: Welcome to Derry - Episode One Review

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