If you thought it was tough to eat during IT: Welcome to Derry 's gory first episode , the show's second installment says, "Hold my pickle jar."

That's because episode 2, titled "The Thing in the Dark," continues IT: Welcome to Derry 's scare parade with a sequence that does for pickles what Stephen King 's IT did for clowns. Namely, it ruins them entirely.

IT: Welcome to Derry turns pickles into nightmares. Clara Stack in "IT: Welcome to Derry." Credit: Brooke Palmer / HBO

The series laid the groundwork for its pickle-centric scare back in episode 1, when Lilly (Clara Stack) revealed her traumatic backstory to Matty (Miles Ekhardt). Her father died in a freak accident at the pickle plant he worked at, climbing into the factory's machinery in order to retrieve Lilly's lo

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