Flaming Star (1960)

An Extremely Inclusive Show About a Clown Eating Children

As lifelong Stephen King fans, IT: Welcome to Derry is a story so many of us have been living with since childhood. From the original IT hardcover, a famously massive 1,138-page first edition that felt like a rite of passage, to the 1990 ABC miniseries that turned Pennywise into a pop-culture nightmare thanks to Tim Curry, and later to IT and IT Chapter Two, which reintroduced every child’s nightmare to a new generation of fans, we have been obsessed with the killer clown that lives in the sewer.

This new series is genuinely fun, deeply bingeable, and clearly made by people who know why fans keep coming back. It expands the world, delivers scares, introduces new characters (and old ones), and it makes hitting “next episode” inevitable. You will love it. Legendary characters tell new stories. Origins are explained. Inclusivity is embraced unapologetically. There is just something about Pennywise that makes you always come back to him.