My Review of It - Welcome To Derry: "Now You See It"

 

Written by Guadalís Del Carmen And Gabe Hobson

Directed by Andrew Bernstein

Lilly (re Pennywise): "What is that?"

Will: "It's a clown."

After the early Halloween release of the previous episode, I had over a week to wait for this third one and it certainly had some great moments in it.

First of all, let's check in our new/old Losers Club. Lilly and Ronnie made amends and both Will and Rich joined them in a bid to help free Hank from a potential death sentence. Rich had the notion of an orisha being to blame.

This meant a botched ritual at the graveyard where the kids ended up having to deal with a lot of different spooky goings on. On the plus side, at least their photos actually developed and wouldn't you know it, Pennywise briefly showed up as well. 

Aside from a brief photo appearance of Pennywise, the rest of the episode gave a nice backstory for General Shaw. In flashbacks, he encountered It as a child (Diesel La Torraca) and formed a friendship with a Native American girl named Rose (Violet Sutherland).

In the present, Shaw reconnected with Rose (Kimberly Norris Guerrero) and wanted to work with her not to disturb ground while enlisting Halloran to do some recon with both Hanlon and Russo. Let's just that Halloran's ability managed to freak both Hanlon and Russo.

There's a nice where Halloran had dinner with Leroy and Charlotte and confided in the former more about his abilities. I've got to admit that I'm really liking Chris Chalk's take on Halloran so far. 

- This episode introduced us to Madeleine Stowe's mystery character. She encouraged Lilly to make amends with Ronnie.

- Hank smokes a certain brand of cigarettes and it's not Pall Mall. He was also threatened with Shawshank. 

- Shaw's slingshot was the thing that Halloran used to locate. 

- Chronology: Flashbacks to 1908 for Shaw/Rose before going back to 1962.

Now You See It helped to move things a little bit further. Halloran got some great screentime in this one and the graveyard scene had some nice scares. Though not as strong as the first two episodes, I still enjoyed this one.

Rating: 7 out of 10