IT: Welcome to Derry’s finale takes us from Pennywise’s defeat to shocking time twists, Richie Tozier’s origin, and a connection to Beverly Marsh.

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 7 “The Black Spot” is yet another hour of non-stop horror from the HBO show, featuring a horrific race massacre, the tragic tale of the real Pennywise the Dancing Clown ( Bill Skarsgård ), and the full, awful power of the Deadlights.

Another year, another Stephen King adaptation has come to a close.

Before we see the full scope of that encounter, we go back to Welcome to Derry ’s present day. Lily has another freak-out, this time in math class when she sees her father’s pickled corpse slithering around in her desk. “Who’s gonna help you now, crazy?” the apparition cackles.

The Evil of Pennywise expansion establishes three to six players as a team of in-the-know Pennywise veterans who grew up in King’s beloved horror setting of Derry, Maine. As children, the player characters were hunted by It,