Overview
- Episode 4 delivers the series’ clearest account of the entity’s beginnings, tying its power more directly to Derry and signaling a turn toward confrontation.
- Dick Hallorann employs his psychic ability to unearth long-buried history that points toward the creature’s territory without fully exposing it.
- The show shifts from distant menace to hands-on terror against the children, indicating that Pennywise’s physical appearance is close.
- Storylines highlighting racism intensify as plans for a Black social space take shape and Hallorann’s ties to a military program further complicate the search.
- HBO released a midseason trailer as weekly episodes continue, with the first four now streaming on Max and Bill Skarsgård reprising Pennywise.