Since Welcome to Derry premiered, the Creature has taken many types to scare the residents of the small city: a demon child, a lampshade product of human meat, a mattress that’s additionally your lifeless mom after giving beginning to you, the dismembered elements of your lifeless father within a pickle jar… And extra lately, a priest and a child topped with thorns popping out of his stomach as a illustration of colonization, bodily and religious violence from the colonizer as native individuals’s final concern.
The dancing clown Pennywise, the Creature’s hottest kind, has solely been teased to this point… Till two teams of individuals go to the sewers under Derry and every part modifications. After Taniel is tortured by Hallorann, the army creates a plan to cut back the scale of the “cage” that traps the Creature in Derry and use IT to win the battle. They begin getting ready for the motion.
The native individuals are additionally anxious about IT; a few of them collect to debate the present cycle of the Creature, and the way individuals in Derry have gotten extra aggressive because the Augury, one final massive, bloody occasion that marks the top of a cycle, approaches. After this, the town is anticipated to get 27 years or so of peace.
| “Neibolt Street” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Pictured: Joshua Odjick as Taniel. Photo: Brooke Palmer/Max ©2025 HBO Max, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Meanwhile, after telling everyone that Lilly had nothing to do with her accident and just tried to help, Marge joins the other kids in their private club in the tower. There, they find Matty — the kid from the opening sequence — now pale, hair grown, looking sick, hiding in a yellow tent after weeks in the sewers. According to him, the Creature sleeps during the day and feeds at night, so he found a way to escape. Also, Phil is still alive down there, though he can’t move. The kids try to convince Matty to show himself to the police, as this could help them believe Hank is innocent. But Matty doesn’t want any adult to know he is alive, as they would return him to his family, and he’d rather return to the sewers than return home.
Trying to find a solution, Lilly goes to Madeleine Stowe’s character once again to ask for help. This time, she seems less suspicious and more honest about being worried for Lilly, discouraging her from going down the sewers, and even making her promise she won’t do it. Her husband interrupts them; he is Stan Kersh, the butcher from episode two. He is rude to his wife, and Mrs. Kersh seems uncomfortable when he is around. That’s an interesting scene: Is Mrs. Kersh being genuine when she shows concern for Lilly? Or by saying she shouldn’t go down, she expects to do a reverse psychology trick and put this idea in the child’s mind? However, if she has any connection with the obscure things happening in Derry, would she be stuck in a seemingly bad, loveless marriage? Mrs. Kersh remains one of the most complex, intriguing characters from this show — and this episode has even more to offer about her.
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| “Neibolt Avenue” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Pictured: Madeleine Stowe as Ingrid. Picture: Brooke Palmer/Max ©2025 HBO Max, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Hank is attacked earlier than getting on the bus to the Shawshank Jail. As a person tries to kill him, Charlotte has a imaginative and prescient of the Creature as a creepy, smiling police officer. As Charlotte grows suspicious concerning the darkish reality behind the city, Leroy strikes together with his household to the army base, anticipating to maintain Will away from his buddies in Derry. However the youngster has different plans, mendacity to his mother about going for a stroll to discover the brand new place and escaping to the tower. As soon as there, he joins the opposite youngsters of their mission to go down the sewers to search out and rescue Phil.
In the meantime, Rose visits Francis and calls for to see her nephew; after making an attempt to discourage the Basic with out success, she convinces him she desires to assist. Rose will get to speak to Taniel and provides him a chunk of the star, a black, pointed stake — that’s the solely factor highly effective sufficient to guard him, the one factor that may damage IT.
Contained in the sewer, the troopers lose monitor of one another. Leroy has a imaginative and prescient of Charlotte that disturbs him, and he finally ends up taking pictures her, however his good friend Pauly Russo would not see her; Taniel runs away, dropping the stake into the water. And Dick is taken by the Creature to a (psychological?) place the place he’s tortured with visions of his grandparents — his grandfather desires to forcefully open a field that needs to be saved locked.
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| “Neibolt Street” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Pictured: Matilda Lawler as Marge, Amanda Christine as Ronnie, Blake Cameron James as Will, Clara Stack as Lilly, Arian S. Cartaya as Rich. Photo: Brooke Palmer/Max ©2025 HBO Max, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Nearby, the kids discover that Matty is actually the Creature, who transforms into Pennywise in an iconic singing sequence — the showrunners were so right leaving this to the middle of the season, making it a special moment. While the children run from Pennywise, Lilly stays behind. She ends up trapped in a dead end. Pennywise is ready to kill her. But when the clown tries to go for her, IT fails because of the stake left by Taniel, which protects Lilly when she needs it the most. Realizing what happened, the girl grabs the piece of star.
While the kids are running from the clown, they bump straight into Leroy and Pauly. Major Hanlon thinks he’s seeing the Creature disguised as Will, just like he saw Charlotte earlier, and prepares to shoot him. But Pauly is seeing Will as well this time, and realizing what is about to happen, gets in front of the bullet, dying shortly after.
Not that far from there, something causes Hank’s bus to crash, and he manages to escape. Mrs. Kersh finds him in the back seat of her car, and after taking him to the woods nearby, it’s revealed that they are lovers, meaning Kersh is the married woman who could be Hank’s alibi if not for their shared secret. They make a plan for him to escape, and Hank decides to ask for help from the only one who showed him some empathy. That way, the episode ends with Madeleine Stowe’s character going to the military base to talk to Charlotte; as they meet for the first time, she finally introduces herself to Charlotte (and the audience) as Ingrid Kersh.
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| “Neibolt Avenue” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Pictured: Chris Chalk as Dick Hallorann. Picture: Brooke Palmer/Max ©2025 HBO Max, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
For anybody misplaced about what this identify might imply, It: Chapter Two confirmed the Creature taking the type of Mrs. Kersh, a seemingly type previous girl. Throughout this sequence, it’s prompt that Kersh is the daughter of Bob Grey, one of many largest mysteries behind the Creature disguised as Pennywise. May Ingrid be the daughter of the Creature? Or is she associated to the human who impressed IT’s favourite disguise? Curiously, IT bought to spend such a very long time as Matty to trick the children — what else can IT do on the subject of disguises? And for a way lengthy? We’ve seen the Creature as a “normal” individual earlier than, however this time it took some time for IT to disclose itself…
All in all, Neibolt Avenue will get all of it proper, with a putting introduction for Invoice Skarsgård’s Pennywise and attention-grabbing revelations about Ingrid Kersh. The youngsters stay charismatic, Marge’s introduction to the group lastly making it complete. Speaking about her particularly, it’s good to observe her progress after the final episode, a candy second shared with Wealthy making it exhausting to not root for them to make it out alive. We even have a compelling essential character in Dick Hallorann, who now finds himself having to cope with an unthinkably highly effective creature — can’t wait to see what he’s going to do to battle again. How is Charlotte going to assist Hank? And the way will Leroy cope with what he did? In conclusion, subsequent week can’t take any longer — however for now, Welcome to Derry provided sufficient to maintain me greater than glad.
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