Eight years ago, director Andy Muschietti kept psychotherapists everywhere in business with his terrifying (and traumatising) big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s IT.

Based on King’s doorstopper novel, the IT films follow a group of kids who confront the sinister, shape-shifting clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) and then battle him again three decades later as adults.

Not content, however, with giving a generation of film fans coulrophobia, Muschietti has returned to help reinvent King’s most monstrous creation for the small screen with IT: Welcome to Derry.

This chilling prequel dives into Derry’s dark past and even darker sewers as we witness a previous generation of kids trying to deal with a ravenous Pennywise.

So, after watching five episodes, do I think this new chapter floats

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