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Positive:
14
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Oct 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The cast’s emotional depth and depictions of fright and panic really elevate “It: Welcome to Derry.” .... When it’s all said and done, “It: Welcome to Derry” is a worthy prequel series that not only details the emergence of Pennywise, but also turns a lens on society to showcase how truly horrifying we can be as human beings.
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The IndependentOct 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
King diehards will be impressed by how faithfully the show recreates IT’s atmosphere of fetid, rising dread. Even Derry Girls fans who have switched on in confusion might be convinced to stick around – at least until the geysers of gore get going and the body parts pile up.
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Oct 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Welcome to Derry excels in juggling its numerous storylines (so far) and offers great showcases for actors Chris Chalk and Jovan Adepo, as well as its countless scene-stealing child stars. It’s unclear if the HBO show will be able stick its scary landing, but the first batch of episodes prove to be spine-chilling fun this spooky season.
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Oct 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Derry” dribbles out character details episode-by-episode through five (of eight) episodes made available for review, routinely connecting seemingly disparate characters. That “Stand by Me”-meets-“Stranger Things” vibe of the first episode returns in episode three, thankfully, since it’s the show’s most potent element.
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The Mercury NewsOct 23, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Here, either it’s assumed we know more, or character development was a casualty of the writing process. Either way, some characters are written pretty thin. Luckily, the young actors are all engaging, making up for a lot of that. And if you like horror — it sounds as if horror would be self-evident in a horror series, but fans of the genre know it can be surprisingly lacking — “It: Welcome to Derry” won’t disappoint. At least not much.
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TV InsiderOct 24, 2025
Screen RantOct 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Viewers looking for Stand by Me or even HBO’s King adaptation of The Outsider may be disappointed by the conventional plot and surface-level gestures at difficult topics like race in America, Native American erasure, and Cold War parallels, but those looking for invention, captivating characters, and flying two-headed newborns, IT: Welcome to Derry has a place for you to stay.
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Oct 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, some of the most unsettling moments of terror and gore to grace the small screen are contrasted here by some of the cheapest and corniest. .... There’s still surprising depth to Welcome to Derry’s overarching allegory of evil. Having an antagonist who feeds on fear, then drastically expanding those fears on a macro level of a still-segregated society, is smart, timely, and more frightening than most of the show’s actual scares.
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