Pennywise the Clown (Ben Skarsgård) might have sated his bloodlust in the latest episode of It: Welcome to Derry — but a new villain just stepped out of the shadows to bring “It” out of hibernation.
Episode 7 of Welcome to Derry might just be its best, and most harrowing, yet. The season has slowly but surely been building up to the “Augury,” the bloody climax of It’s feeding cycle, and the series’ penultimate episode delivers that promise and more. Its first half takes place at the Black Spot, the makeshift nightclub built for the Black airmen at the nearby Army base. The strife and mistrust building up between Derry’s Black community, who are secretly harboring the wrongly convicted Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider), and the town’s all-white Old Guard reaches a fever pitch. The latter set fire to the Black Spot while its patrons are still trapped inside — the act of insensible violence that It has waited 27 years for.
