{"id":185391,"date":"2025-12-15T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/185391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:57:08","slug":"welcome-to-derry-creators-explain-why-show-is-happening-in-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/185391\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Derry Creators Explain Why Show Is Happening In Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This story contains spoilers from \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d Episode 8.<\/p>\n

The \u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d<\/a> season finale finally revealed why the show planned to release seasons going further and further back in time.<\/p>\n

The Season 1 finale of \u201cWelcome to Derry\u201d featured a square-off between Pennywise (Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd) and the kids and adults trying to stop the military from releasing the monster from its cage. In the middle of that climax, Pennywise singles out Marge (Matilda Lawler) and moves to kill her specifically. He reveals that Marge goes on to mother Richie Tozier \u2013 one of the core Losers Club members \u2013 and says her son is responsible for killing him. That is, unless he can kill the girl that grows up to be Richie\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n

Here lies the explanation for why \u201cWelcome to Derry\u201d pushes each season further back in time toward Pennywise\u2019s past Augury events. The monster is so cosmically ancient and powerful that it doesn\u2019t experience time normally. Knowing the Losers Club eventually defeats it, a time-uncoupled Pennywise is traveling backward to ensure an ancestor is killed and they are never born. Creator and finale director Andy Muschietti told TheWrap that a few brief lines from Stephen King\u2019s novel prompted him to think more deeply about how Pennywise exists alongside time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s something very mysterious in the book, there\u2019s one moment of the Losers speculating about the way that It experiences time, but there\u2019s not a single answer in the book,\u201d Muschietti said. \u201cIt\u2019s all questions. Sometimes there are assertions of what It is. I just picked on that \u2013 a couple of things from the book that are just like, barely mentioned, and we got very curious about. One of them is It\u2019s experience of time. How does he move in time?\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe made it bigger to the point where the whole reason why we\u2019re telling the story backwards \u2013 because a monster that doesn\u2019t experience time linearly can live in time in a very different way, and at the same time, can rewrite history, right? Given that it\u2019s a prequel, and that people normally with prequels are like, \u2018Oh, okay, so why should I watch that if we know that the monster dies at the end?\u2019 Well, not if he can rewrite history, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The reveal of Marge\u2019s future son also ties a link back to poor Rich (Arian S. Cartaya), who saved her during the Black Spot fire in Episode 7. The little girl clearly grew up and named her son after the boy who saved her life from Pennywise in the \u201960s. But that\u2019s not where Rich\u2019s story ends, because, as the show notes, nobody is ever really gone in Derry. Muschietti explained that they wanted a \u201cphoto finish\u201d to the season \u2014 and what better way for the kids to stop Pennywise in this Augury than with the ghostly return of their friend helping them out?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a time in the script where Rich died and that was it,\u201d Muschietti said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out the final act of the last episode and I really wanted a photo finish there at the end \u2013 Pennywise crawling to the finish line and the kids not being able to just f\u2013king sink the dagger. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Let\u2019s bring f\u2013king Rich. We have a character on the scene that sees dead people, Dick, we are completely not using. If this is a world where the dead are still around, which is true, where would Rich be?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

As Dick says in the final moments \u2014 while Rich runs in to help his friends trap Pennywise one last time \u2014 he\u2019s witnessing a \u201cgoddamn f\u2013king miracle,\u201d with the monster\u2019s physical form finally contained in the town. Unfortunately, that\u2019s only Pennywise\u2019s body. Should the show get a Season 2 renewal, the creature\u2019s mind is likely headed back to the \u201930s to target another ancestor of the Losers\u2019 Club during his last Augury event: the Bradley Gang Massacre.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt: Welcome to Derry\u201d is now streaming on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

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