SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the first two episodes of IT: Welcome To Derry . If you have not yet watched, you should take advantage of your HBO Max subscription to do so – or otherwise, proceed at your own risk!

When it comes to long-running franchises, one of my biggest pet peeves regards character stagnation. If it’s felt by studios/filmmakers that audiences have a very specific vision of who a hero or villain is, there will be an effort to resist any significant change (even if decades pass between appearances). Nobody is the exact same person they were after 20 years of being molded by life experience – which is why I am very happy about the approach that IT: Welcome To Derry is taking with Dick Hallorann , played by Chris Chalk.

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