After ending the earlier episode on a cliffhanger, The Black Spot begins with a flashback to 1908, again to the times when Bob Grey, a.ok.a. Pennywise, the Dancing Clown, introduced happiness and laughter to youngsters. We see certainly one of his exhibits and the way profitable the clown is at making younger folks have enjoyable, one thing the Creature rapidly realizes. We additionally study extra about Bob’s relationship together with his daughter, Ingrid, and the bond they share because the Pennywise and Periwinkle duo. Lastly, we see Bob Grey taking a break, smoking close to the woods at night time, then being lured and brought by the Creature in a kind of suspenseful sequences. The episode doesn’t present the homicide of Bob Grey, maybe saving the second for a later season, however we see adults a bit of Bob’s clothes with blood on it; Ingrid realizes her father disappeared after discovering them.
| “The Black Spot” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Pictured: Bill Skarsgård as Bob Gray/Pennywise. Photo: Courtesy of HBO ©2025 HBO Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Back in 1962 at the Black Spot, the group of white men is ready to attack if Hank doesn’t surrender. Hank shows up willing to go with the group, but the soldiers intervene, pulling out their guns and threatening the group of racists. Then, the invaders walk away, leaving the house. But their plan is even more wicked than anyone could have possibly imagined, as they lock the people inside the nightclub, then throw bottles filled with fire inside it while shooting at the soldiers.
That’s when the Augury, the massive, bloody event that marks the end of a cycle, starts. There’s chaos everywhere — people are running desperately looking for a way out from the club, then being shot, then being taken by the flames or the smoke. It doesn’t take too long for Pennywise to appear to add more terror to the night (after all, following this night, the Creature is supposed to rest for 27 years). While a mysterious indigenous spirit helps Dick find a way to save Hank and some of the children, Rich and Marge have to fight for their lives themselves. After finding a place where only one of them could hide, Rich sacrifices himself so Marge can live.
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In the meantime, Ingrid arrives on the place dressed up as Periwinkle and finds her husband, Stan Kersh, having bother with their automotive. Disturbed by his spouse and making an attempt to depart the place as quickly as he can, Pennywise kills Stan in one of many goriest, most violent scenes of the present. Then, Ingrid has an encounter with the Creature and confesses that she leaked the details about Hank’s location to trigger the occasion that might convey panic, ache, and worry to these concerned—presumably bringing Pennywise to the floor. After IT thanks her and prepares to depart, saying he’ll return in a number of years, she turns into enraged and fights with him, lastly understanding that the Creature killed her father and that she has been used all these years. In response, the Creature opens its mouth and hypnotizes her with the three luminous orbs.
Hours after this, when the authorities arrive and begin amassing the corpses, we see Ingrid transferring and smiling, however I am unsure if that is a hallucination or if she’s nonetheless alive. The harm was large — this cycle ended with many adults and kids useless. And now that Wealthy is among the folks gone, Marge, Ronnie, and Lilly come collectively of their shared grief.
In the meantime, Charlotte helps Hank cover, inserting his garments within the rubble so he can be presumed useless. Then she takes him to her previous home so he can use Leroy’s garments; lastly, she goes with him to Rose, asking her to assist him get out of city. Elsewhere, Dick is suffering from ghosts and the voices of the useless, slowly dropping his thoughts, however with the mysterious spirit’s assist, he offers the coordinates so the army can discover a pillar.
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The military takes the pillar to be melted down. When Leroy discovers what’s about to happen, he confronts his colleagues. He has a heated argument with Shaw, who reveals that he never intended to use the Creature to win the Cold War, but rather to control the American population through fear. After Leroy threatens them to stop the operation but fails to do so, the Army burns the stake, and Shaw orders one of his soldiers not to let Leroy leave the building. After the melting of the pillar, Pennywise wakes from his slumber and goes to torment Will through a phone call, who is alone at home just as Charlotte told him to. The Creature pretends to be Ronnie on the call, then appears to Will in all his bloody, scary clown glory, opening his mouth to show Will the lights.
Okay, this was quite the Derry episode. It had it all. Perhaps it’s precisely because of the excessive number of shocking, essential scenes that the episode seems unfocused to me. It’s not something that hurts this penultimate hour beyond redemption—there’s still room for scares, shocks, and tension. But the importance of some events is diminished; just as the Black Spot, as a space of freedom for black soldiers, developed rapidly in the previous episode, the Augury unfolds quickly, almost anticlimactically.
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It is attainable to be horrified by the depth of racism in Derry, which fits far past hypocritical punitivism directed at an (harmless) Hank and permeates all the season in particulars massive and small. Nonetheless, the horrifying fireplace will get misplaced amid the 1908 flashbacks that result in an anticlimactic ending for Ingrid, the revelations in regards to the Military and its silly plan, and all of the storylines the episode wants to arrange for subsequent week’s season finale. Given the slower tempo of this season’s first 4 episodes, it is virtually as if the sequence had deliberate an additional episode that might have allowed them to develop every little thing extra calmly, however needed to reduce that episode on the final minute, leading to a ultimate batch of episodes with an odd, messy tempo. |
Anyway, this episode additionally has many optimistic moments. Wealthy’s dying scene was highly effective and delightful. Regardless of being suffering from Pennywise within the sewers and listening to the voices within the pipes, we do not see him being individually attacked by the Creature. He is the one youngster within the sequence—and I might say the only real essential character—who by some means stays untouched by the Creature, not as a result of he is not afraid, however as a result of he is stronger than his fears and stronger than Derry. Wealthy does not die in nervousness, despair, or sorrow; he sleeps peacefully whereas speaking about his love for Marge. This scene was transferring sufficient to make me suppose that if Wealthy needed to go, they discovered the absolute best strategy to kill him.
In the meantime, Dick stays probably the most attention-grabbing characters on the present, preventing to regain management of his powers (and his thoughts) whereas actively confronting the Creature and saving folks; that is our absolute ultimate boy. It was additionally curious to see Invoice Skarsgård in a unique function as Bob Grey. Now, the finale is subsequent: who will survive the horrors? Will Hank and Charlotte escape Derry? Will any essential character die? How will the free ends be tied up, now that the Military broke the Creature’s normal cycle? Even at its messiest, this present’s successes outweigh its missteps, and it makes for good TV, so I wager we’ll be in for a deal with subsequent week.
