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Sadly, Sky Atlantic IT: Welcome to Derry This is not a spin-off of the hit Channel 4 sitcom dairy girls but a prequel Stephen King‘S it Set in 1962 in a sleepy all-American small town in deepest Maine. How little this delightfully scary period drama has in common Lisa McGee’s cult series The first episode is presented in a chilling manner, in which a young boy is kidnapped by a haunted family, including a mother who gives birth to a demonic child right before his eyes. Toto, we’re not in Derry anymore. Well, we are – not at all He dairy.
king fan North Americans may already be familiar with dairy. It served as the background for the original it And its clown villain, ChhichhoraHe’s back for this show, and once again he’s portrayed by the joyous and malevolent Bill Skarsgård. Alas, devotees of scary Swedish actors in nightmarish clown makeup will have to wait further into the eight-part series before their appearance (former Hollywood A-lister Madeleine Stowe also has an undisclosed role to be revealed several episodes in).
Pennywise may be an evil monster with an endless supply of trademark red balloons, but he also enjoys his leisure time. As it Veterans will remember, he appears in Derry every 27 years to feed local children. His return was first described in 1989. it Film (2017), the film’s director, Andy Muschietti, is now reminiscing about 1962 and is in the grip of a Derry Cold War paranoia (Muschietti co-developed the show and directed the first four installments).
The time period may have changed, but Muschietti still stands today stranger things-The first big screen’s esque kids-on-bikes formula it (An unsatisfactory 2019 sequel caught in middle age with the original Joker pose). When local urchin Matty (Miles Eckhart) goes missing – it’s him we see crushed by that flying baby – his school friends decide to find him. These include Lily (Clara Stack), Matty’s strange neighbor who is returning to normalcy after her father is incarcerated in a mental asylum. He is also joined by Ronnie (Amanda Christine), the daughter of the owner of the theater where Matty was last seen watching a movie. The Music Man – a 1962 musical about a swindler who swindles a small town.
As Pennywise carries out his dark mischiefs off-screen, the residents of Derry have other worries. Chief among them is the mysterious airbase just outside the city, which houses an Area 32-style quarantine zone. this is extreme Attack of the Body Snatchers Era and newly appointed US Air Force Major Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo) are immediately dragged into the mystery of what is going on behind the sealed warehouse.
He has brought with him his wife, Charlotte (Taylor Paige), and 12-year-old son, Will (Blake Cameron James). As new African Americans to a small and overwhelmingly white town in 1960s America, you might expect that they would encounter some degree of racism. But the citizens of Derry appear to be unusually enlightened and Charlotte experiences little prejudice upon settling there. If it weren’t for the killer clown on the loose, Derry is initially presented as heaven on earth (of course, as children go missing, the picture becomes more complicated).
it was scary in places and welcome to dairy There’s a similar enthusiasm for body horror. Visitors with sensitive stomachs are advised to have a pillow handy, as it may be best to dive back if bleeding begins. There are plenty of scary scares and an extended set-piece that includes some of the most shockingly surprising deaths this side of Prime game of Thrones,
Muschietti is not overly respectful of the source material – for example, in the original it novel, Pennywise returns to Derry in 1957 instead of 1962. Still, King diehards will be impressed by how faithfully the show has been recreated itFoul atmosphere, increasing fear. even dairy girls Fans who have switched on in confusion may be persuaded to stick around – at least until the geysers turn on and the body parts pile up.