Spoilers below for the latest episode of IT: Welcome to Derry, so be warned if you haven't yet watched on HBO or via HBO Max subscription.
When the seventh installment of IT: Welcome to Derry wasn’t busy dropping fun easter eggs or introducing audiences to the “real” Bob Gray, it was breaking my tar-black heart. In the first place, the penultimate episode tackled one of the most controversial mass murders in all of Stephen King’s bibliography: the Black Spot massacre, which resulted in the deaths of multiple soldiers and civilians. But with no disrespect to any of the Black characters who suffered the fatal whims of Clint Bowers, the most heartbreaking death was that of young Rich Santos.
