At long last, this week’s episode of It: Welcome to Derry gave fans what they’d been waiting for: Pennywise the Dancing Clown in full circus regalia, complete with glowing eyes and way too many pointy teeth. The big moment was well worth it, and even if it felt like episode five was a long time […]
‘Game of Thrones’ Will Get a Proper Sequel, Eventually
For the past few years, HBO has kept Game of Thrones going by looking back further in its history. While that’s not changing for the rest of the 2020s, creator George R.R. Martin revealed the TV franchise knows it has to move forward, and indeed plans to do just that. At a recent event in Iceland attended […]
‘Dune: Prophecy’ Kicks off Season 2 Production by Adding Indira Varma and More
We weren’t sure at first that the world needed a Dune prequel, set 10,000 years before Paul Atreides and focused on the creation of the mysterious Bene Gesserit. But the first season of HBO’s Dune: Prophecy proved how dramatic and wild such a story could be. When season one came to its jaw-dropping conclusion, we realized […]
Stephen King Gave His Blessing for ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ to Do Whatever It Wanted
Stephen King hasn’t always been supportive of adaptations of his works that make major changes to them—Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is the best-known example. But he’s also not unilaterally opposed to alterations; he was a fan of Cujo‘s more upbeat ending and was an even bigger fan of The Mist‘s far more devastating conclusion. Most […]
Meet the New Characters of ‘It: Welcome to Derry’—Plus One Returning Stephen King Favorite
It: Welcome to Derry will be floating into your nightmares very soon, and while the kids—Pennywise’s favorite feast—will be front and center, adult characters also take a prominent role in the story. Most folks we meet have been created for the HBO series, which is set in 1962 and is a prequel to the events […]
The Creative Minds Behind ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Tease the Return of Pennywise
As Stephen King fans well know, Pennywise the Dancing Clown emerges every 27 years to feast on the people of Derry, especially the younger generation. That’s why It: Welcome to Derry takes place in 1962, 27 years before the 1989 events of Andy Muschietti’s 2017 It feature film, and 54 years before the 2016 setting […]
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Creators Know the Opening Scene Will Shock You
We’re just a few weeks away from the arrival of It: Welcome to Derry, but fans at San Diego Comic-Con this summer and this past weekend’s New York Comic Con have gotten some early glimpses of what to expect from the Stephen King series. At SDCC, HBO revealed the show’s very first scene, and io9 […]
Is the Massive Forehead of This Human Pennywise Figure a ‘Welcome to Derry’ Spoiler?
Horror fans have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Pennywise the Clown. The Stephen King creation takes many forms, but he exists to inspire terror in his victims before demolishing them, and his most effective and recognizable guise involves a frilly costume, glowing eyes, and a mouth full of way too many […]
5 Things ‘Castle Rock’ Got Perfectly Right in Expanding Stephen King’s World
As Stephen King fans eagerly anticipate the arrival of It: Welcome to Derry, a new HBO series developed by the creators of the recent It movies, including director Andy Muschietti, here’s a reminder that it’s not the first series to expand King’s horror world with original stories. While Derry riffs on flashbacks from the 1986 […]
‘The Leftovers’ Is Still One of TV’s Great Miracles
Losing a loved one brings pain no matter the circumstances. Not knowing what happened to them only adds more agony. That grief and confusion is what propels The Leftovers, but on a global scale—leading to three fascinating, thought-provoking, audacious, cigarette-filled, and often miraculous seasons of TV. At the start of the first episode, it happens: […]