Spoilers follow for the first two episodes of It: Welcome to Derry .

In It: Welcome to Derry , any parent can become a torturer. The titular evil entity turns children’s fears into food for itself, and the cruel hierarchy of generations is a perpetual source. Parents’ insistence that children do what they’re told, and the resentment that creates on both sides, are manna for the beast.

So far, It: Welcome to Derry has mined this dynamic for numerous scares: Lilly’s dead father sliced up into pickle jars, the pieces congealing into an octopuslike monster ordering his daughter to give him a kiss; Teddy’s father’s stories about the Holocaust transforming his son’s lampshade into a lattice of screaming faces, all matted hair and stretched skin. These are nightmares made real, given co

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