Overview
- Episode 6 points directly to the name Robert “Bob” Gray, echoing the alias from Stephen King’s novel and sharpening the franchise’s long‑running origin question.
- A visual detail aligns with IT: Chapter Two, which previously showed a period photograph tied to the Pennywise persona, reinforcing continuity across the properties.
- Coverage frames the development as strengthening the theory that Bob Gray may have been a real figure whose image was later assumed by the creature, though this remains unconfirmed.
- Director Andy Muschietti has called the Bob Gray–Pennywise relationship “very cryptic,” underscoring that the series is still withholding definitive answers.
- Reporting indicates the series’ reverse‑chronology plan will shift to 1935 next season and 1908 afterward, positioning those eras to explore the backstory more fully; new episodes air Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO and Max.