After ending the earlier episode on a cliffhanger, The Black Spot begins with a flashback to 1908, again to the times when Bob Grey, a.okay.a. Pennywise, the Dancing Clown, introduced happiness and laughter to kids. We see considered one of his reveals and the way profitable the clown is at making younger folks have enjoyable, one thing the Creature rapidly realizes. We additionally study extra about Bob’s relationship together with his daughter, Ingrid, and the bond they share because the Pennywise and Periwinkle duo. Lastly, we see Bob Grey taking a break, smoking close to the woods at night time, then being lured and brought by the Creature in a type of suspenseful sequences. The episode doesn’t present the homicide of Bob Grey, maybe saving the second for a later season, however we see adults taking a look at a chunk of Bob’s clothes with blood on it; Ingrid realizes her father disappeared after discovering them.
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| “The Black Spot” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Pictured: Invoice Skarsgård as Bob Grey/Pennywise. Photograph: Courtesy of HBO ©2025 HBO Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Again in 1962 on the Black Spot, the group of white males is able to assault if Hank would not give up. Hank reveals up prepared to go together with the group, however the troopers intervene, pulling out their weapons and threatening the group of racists. Then, the invaders stroll away, leaving the home. However their plan is much more depraved than anybody may have presumably imagined, as they lock the folks contained in the nightclub, then throw bottles full of fireplace inside it whereas taking pictures on the troopers.
That is when the Augury, the huge, bloody occasion that marks the top of a cycle, begins. There’s chaos all over the place — individuals are working desperately searching for a manner out from the membership, then being shot, then being taken by the flames or the smoke. It would not take too lengthy for Pennywise to seem so as to add extra terror to the night time (in spite of everything, following this night time, the Creature is meant to relaxation for 27 years). Whereas a mysterious indigenous spirit helps Dick discover a strategy to save Hank and a few of the kids, Wealthy and Marge must battle for his or her lives themselves. After discovering a spot the place solely considered one of them may disguise, Wealthy sacrifices himself so Marge can reside.
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In the meantime, Ingrid arrives on the place dressed up as Periwinkle and finds her husband, Stan Kersh, having hassle with their automotive. Disturbed by his spouse and attempting to depart the place as quickly as he can, Pennywise kills Stan in one of many goriest, most violent scenes of the present. Then, Ingrid has an encounter with the Creature and confesses that she leaked the details about Hank’s location to trigger the occasion that will convey panic, ache, and worry to these concerned—presumably bringing Pennywise to the floor. After IT thanks her and prepares to depart, saying he’ll return in a number of years, she turns into enraged and fights with him, lastly understanding that the Creature killed her father and that she has been used all these years. In response, the Creature opens its mouth and hypnotizes her with the three luminous orbs.
Hours after this, when the authorities arrive and begin accumulating the corpses, we see Ingrid shifting and smiling, however I am unsure if that is a hallucination or if she’s nonetheless alive. The injury was large — this cycle ended with many adults and youngsters useless. And now that Wealthy is among the folks gone, Marge, Ronnie, and Lilly come collectively of their shared grief.
In the meantime, Charlotte helps Hank disguise, putting his garments within the rubble so he shall be presumed useless. Then she takes him to her previous home so he can use Leroy’s garments; lastly, she goes with him to Rose, asking her to assist him get out of city. Elsewhere, Dick is suffering from ghosts and the voices of the useless, slowly dropping his thoughts, however with the mysterious spirit’s assist, he supplies the coordinates so the army can discover a pillar.
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The army takes the pillar to be melted down. When Leroy discovers what’s about to occur, he confronts his colleagues. He has a heated argument with Shaw, who reveals that he by no means meant to make use of the Creature to win the Chilly Battle, however somewhat to regulate the American inhabitants via worry. After Leroy threatens them to cease the operation however fails to take action, the Military burns the stake, and Shaw orders considered one of his troopers to not let Leroy depart the constructing. After the melting of the pillar, Pennywise wakes from his slumber and goes to torment Will via a cellphone name, who’s alone at house simply as Charlotte instructed him to. The Creature pretends to be Ronnie on the decision, then seems to Will in all his bloody, scary clown glory, opening his mouth to indicate Will the lights.
Okay, this was fairly the Derry episode. It had all of it. Maybe it is exactly due to the extreme variety of stunning, important scenes that the episode appears unfocused to me. It is not one thing that hurts this penultimate hour past redemption—there’s nonetheless room for scares, shocks, and stress. However the significance of some occasions is diminished; simply because the Black Spot, as an area of freedom for black troopers, developed quickly within the earlier episode, the Augury unfolds rapidly, virtually anticlimactically.
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| “The Black Spot” – IT: WELCOME TO DERRY. Photograph: Courtesy of HBO ©2025 HBO Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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It is potential to be horrified by the depth of racism in Derry, which works far past hypocritical punitivism directed at an (harmless) Hank and permeates your entire season in particulars huge and small. Nonetheless, the horrifying fireplace will get misplaced amid the 1908 flashbacks that result in an anticlimactic ending for Ingrid, the revelations in regards to the Military and its silly plan, and all of the storylines the episode wants to arrange for subsequent week’s season finale. Given the slower tempo of this season’s first 4 episodes, it is virtually as if the collection had deliberate an additional episode that will have allowed them to develop all the things extra calmly, however needed to lower that episode on the final minute, leading to a last batch of episodes with an odd, messy tempo. |
Anyway, this episode additionally has many optimistic moments. Wealthy’s demise scene was highly effective and delightful. Regardless of being suffering from Pennywise within the sewers and listening to the voices within the pipes, we do not see him being individually attacked by the Creature. He is the one youngster within the collection—and I would say the only real predominant character—who one way or the other stays untouched by the Creature, not as a result of he is not afraid, however as a result of he is stronger than his fears and stronger than Derry. Wealthy would not die in anxiousness, despair, or sorrow; he sleeps peacefully whereas speaking about his love for Marge. This scene was shifting and heartbreaking in all the correct methods; Wealthy, you had been too pure for this world.
In the meantime, Dick stays some of the attention-grabbing characters on the present, combating to regain management of his powers (and his thoughts) whereas actively confronting the Creature and saving folks; that is our absolute last boy. It was additionally curious to see Invoice Skarsgård in a special position as Bob Grey. Now, the finale is subsequent: who will survive the horrors? Will Hank and Charlotte escape Derry? Will any predominant character die? How will the unfastened ends be tied up, now that the Military broke the Creature’s ordinary cycle? Even at its messiest, this present’s successes outweigh its missteps, and it makes for good TV, so I guess we’ll be in for a deal with subsequent week.
