For the entity called Pennywise, the demon that haunts Derry, Maine, fear is the best seasoning for flesh. That’s why this evil enjoys feasting on children most of all. All the townsfolk are susceptible to Its predation, but kids are easier to scare.

Judging by how the entity has manifested in the first two episodes of “It: Welcome to Derry,” a person is right to wonder whether the ghoul hunts youngsters because of what they have in common with it. Pennywise surfaces every 27 years. In the interim, it lurks underground in stasis, almost like a fetus in the womb.

We tend to picture that as a peaceful state. But for Ronnie Grogan (Amanda Christine), who suddenly finds herself trapped inside a membrane prison, engulfed in fluid and drowning, it’s anything but. In one of the most horrifying

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