There’s just no keeping an ancient, evil, shape-shifting vessel of cosmic terror down now, is there? Not content with scaring our socks off in Andy Muschietti’s IT and its 2019 sequel, everyone’s favourite dancing clown Pennywise returned to our screens for more macabre, make-up clad malevolence last year in spin-off series IT: Welcome To Derry, a prequel set 27 years before The Loser Club first encountered Bill Skarsgård’s vaude-villain. Now, in news that’ll come as a surprise to approximately nobody, _Variety’_s reporting that Welcome To Derry Season 2 is officially floating our way… and we already have some plot details to share.
With Season 1 of Welcome To Derry having taken viewers to 1962, following a fresh batch of kids as they took on Pennywise and unearthed IT’s ancient origins, Season 2 is now set to turn the dial back further to 1935, where a fresh batch of unsuspecting folk await to satiate the killer clown’s ravenous appetite. “Season two takes place in 1935 during the Great Depression and centers on the bloody massacre of the Bradley Gang, a group of bank robbers who stop in Derry to buy ammo and end up facing unimaginable horror,” reads this new season’s official synopsis. Given the backwards time-jump here, we aren’t expecting many — if any — of Season 1’s cast to show up in Welcome To Derry Season 2 (beyond, perhaps, some flashback/forward shenanigans), but Andy Muschietti has previously teased that the parents and grandparents of the families we’ve already met will be involved in expanding the Pennywise mythos, so there is that to look forward to.
With Brad Caleb Kane (Crystal Lake) returning as now-sole showrunner, plans already long-since in place for a third season set in 1908, and that Season 1 finale having completely changed our understanding of IT, how IT works, and what IT even is, consider us very intrigued to see how the next piece of HBO’s chilling puzzle slots into place when IT: Welcome To Derry Season 2 arrives on our screens. We don’t have a release window for this one just yet, but given that a writers’ room has already opened and fan appetite for a return to Derry is positively ravenous, we’d advise covering up any nearby storm drains and disassembling any paper boats you may have made recently. Just in case, y’know?
