Warning! This review contains spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode 3.

It: Welcome to Derry ’s third episode gets off to an exciting start. The cold open flashes back to 1908, two Pennywise cycles ago, where we follow a frightened little kid past the horrors of a freak show. Shortly thereafter, he’s stalked by one of the freaks — a spindly, emaciated old man — who chases him through the woods. It’s a perfect standalone horror short, just like the opening of the Welcome to Derry pilot , and arguably the scariest sequence in the show so far. The CG effects aren’t too distracting, because the VFX team just used CGI to augment a real actor; they didn’t create a CG monster from scratch.

This opening isn’t just a glimpse at Pennywise attacks of the past; it significantly deepens the

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