The Reel Rejects - IT - WELCOME TO DERRY 1x01 Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:22 Do you guys got anything you want to add for? No. No, okay. Let's go. Let's ride. All right, guys, well, that was it. Welcome to Derry Episode 1. If you are listening on YouTube,

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Starting point is 00:01:57 I think there's nine episodes out of it. Or maybe there's nine. Maybe there's nine episodes then. I don't know. I don't know these things. Get your shit together, man. I will get my shit together. That's why we got each other.

Starting point is 00:02:06 That's why the she-jacks are here to put me in my place and I'm here for it. Also, two, special thanks to the fine folks over at Prepper for editing down these highlights. I'm sure this show is going to be a task. We appreciate all their hard work and dedication over there. And if you're listening to us on Apple or Spotify, if you don't mind dropping a five-star rating, we would appreciate it. All right, gang, how are we feeling? Who wants to go first? I got to look up where I know that little girl from.

Starting point is 00:02:32 You know I got to look it up. She's got to look it up. So Tara, why don't you start us off out? What are your feelings on the first episode so far? I love the show. I think it's great casting. I really like the writing. I think the way that it was directed,

Starting point is 00:02:45 really great pacing. You don't feel the time, which you never should if it's a good enough show. For sure. I think that it's wild that they already killed off some of what we would assume to be. our lead characters. Lily is obviously very focused on. I love Susie. Sad to see most of her body go, but we still got her hand. Who knows what's going to happen there. I am really, really intrigued on

Starting point is 00:03:14 when are we going to get to the sewers and see Maddie? Like what's going to happen here? Because right now, we're setting up Lily, even though the girl in the theater will believe her. But we're setting up lulu banana lily to be lulu banana times 10 with this with what just happened especially because you want you know lutey bin all that stuff so um i think it's it's very entertaining i really like it uh go what about you andrew so i think yeah so in regards to if we if this is not in their heads which it doesn't feel like it is if quite a subversion of expectations because I thought the setup of the loser clubs the loser club of 1962 I thought was really good I was really enjoying the different flavors of personalities I thought the chemistry

Starting point is 00:04:03 between all these different kids is fantastic I know it wasn't as many as we had in the the first two films having said all that damn that's a way to like pull us in like we're so invested in all these kids and what they're going through and then having to deal with the trauma of just in general the things that they are dealing with like you got lily right is her name that's what tera keeps saying i don't remember them ever calling her that but i believe you oh really i remember lulu they kept calling her looney loony loony but i didn't hear lily but i believe you i'm pretty sure it's lily i can look it up it's not actually on i mdb none of their names are there oh really not only are they not there but i can't find the little girl either wild oh probably maybe because it's not

Starting point is 00:04:47 Draw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Either way, I do like that they do a really great job with exposition. You really get an understanding and a feel of what these characters are going through dramatically and you just get an understanding of who they are. And I just, I love their personalities as well. And I think I can relate a lot to them. Whether I'm going through what they are experiencing or not, I think they're really well cast.

Starting point is 00:05:13 Again, not expecting what they did at the end. there so that is absolute wild so i'm very curious where we are going to be headed now if the focal point is just going to be on lulu and what was the other girl's name that i really liked the best friend uh marge uh marge something like that yeah not marge the one who has the movie theater oh i don't know i don't know her yeah the one whose dad keeps getting accused yeah yeah obviously you know very awful awful time so if anything, you know, happened at that point, you get the finger, I guess, pointed at you. So, you know, really wild times as well. But yeah, I think, like, there's a very strong reservation with

Starting point is 00:05:58 her character as well. And I really like the fact that she was standing up for what she felt was right when it came to Maddie. And, like, even him, just a simple thing is not paying 15 cents to go to the movie theater. And you just to get a really quick understanding of who all these children are and what they believe, what makes them tick and all that. And I think the show does a great job immediately establishing all that, what their fears are, what their strengths are. Personality-wise, I think that kid you said who plays Phil, he's definitely got the it factor, as you would say. And yeah, I really, I'm kind of bummed out too at the same point. As much as I love a good subversion and a good twist, I really like these kids too. So I'm fascinated to see where we go from here.

Starting point is 00:06:42 if this really did happen, which it seems it did. So what about you, fellow Jew Jack? What are your feelings so far through? Or what do you got first? Yeah, just to hit you with this for anybody who was like me, like I know that little girl, she made such an impact on me recently. What was it from? Her name is Matilda LaGault, and she was in Ginny and Georgia,

Starting point is 00:07:01 which is one of my favorite Netflix show. So she played the young Maxine on that show this season, just an episode. But I remember thinking she's so fucking good. And she really was. I, okay, I feel two ways about this show right now. Number one, completely did what a pilot needed to do, sucked me in, had me by the throat. I loved the characters they introduced.

Starting point is 00:07:26 I love being in the 60s, and I love the setup that we have here. Unfortunately, I love the characters that they killed off. So, so, like, it did what a pilot needs to do, and yet I'm concerned, Because we know that we're staying in the 60s for this season. It's not like we're time jumping with the, so if these are in our players, I actually have no idea. They might be.

Starting point is 00:07:51 They might not be. I really, really don't know. I don't know if it's about the journey to try to get them back. I don't know about whether this was in somebody's mind. I don't know about, I don't know anything, but those two main boys, the bestie boys, had such great chemistry together. I loved them. But here's what we know is still alive. The girl who wore the glasses.

Starting point is 00:08:11 We know that she's still alive The girl whose dad was being accused We know that she's still alive And our seemingly our main girl Who didn't kiss him Didn't kiss Maddie We know that she's still alive So thank you for knowing all their names

Starting point is 00:08:25 It just didn't stick with me this time So we know that we at least have them I could be wrong He keeps saying Phil And I think Phil's name was G Who's Phil who's Phil who's G? Who is my name about Phil was the one with the personality

Starting point is 00:08:37 That we got the reveal that It was really charming Yeah yeah yeah He's not that he's charming. It's that I think that he's going to be a star. He's great. I'm totally with you on that. He's got that look.

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Starting point is 00:10:38 My Wikipedia's coming out. So I'm torn on this pilot because I absolutely loved it. And yet, I'm concerned for the rest of the show now. But who knows? Maybe they're able. I felt the same way when we killed off Maddie so quick. I was like, wait, but I'd be loving Maddie. How are you going to do that?

Starting point is 00:10:55 So I'm sure if they give me new characters to love and they just keep delivering, then I'm going to love this show. True. But I'm having a hard time losing some of our core, especially the, Little girl. I know. This early on was really quickly. Yeah. Also, we didn't have Pennywise in the pilot, which I think is an interesting choice.

Starting point is 00:11:13 Yeah. Obviously, we have references to him, but we don't have actual Pennywise. We know Bill Scarsgard is coming back to play Pennywise. We know he's EPing the show. So I think that it's also saving that could be smart. But as somebody who loves Pennywise, I was like, give me Pennywise. Yeah. One glimpse.

Starting point is 00:11:31 Right. I'm also really curious about what happened with the Gapleywis. mask team and what that is all about how that's going to tie in. So I got a lot of questions. I think a good pilot introduces a lot of questions and I'm definitely along for the ride. Yeah. I'm with you on that. Like you get a little like, man, why do you kill some of our favorite characters who we came to love?

Starting point is 00:11:49 That shows obviously well direction, well written that we both are that were attached to them. But I give the show some faith because of how well it's been casted so far that my assumption is hopefully, you know, that stays throughout the season. That's a great point. I think because if we fell so in love with, if they really are gone, Phil and Teddy and Teddy and Teddy. Oh, yeah. Phil and Teddy,

Starting point is 00:12:15 if they really are gone, if you introduced us to kids that we fell in love with so good and your writing is that good, if you're going to introduce us tomorrow, really these are the three main kids that are we're going to be following or teenagers rather that we're going to be following.

Starting point is 00:12:29 I'm not going to prejudge it right now. I'm going to just let things unfold and see what happens. It's just, I think it's just a, I'm going to be cautionary in the moment right now just because I was already so in love with them. And I understand what we're trying to possibly do here. But yeah, I do agree with you. It was fascinating that they held back from even.

Starting point is 00:12:48 We know that Pennywise was here. We just didn't physically see him in clown makeup with Bill Scarsguard. But it was very Jaws-esque Alfred, Alfred Hitchcock-esque in terms of they were adding a level of suspense and making you. wait to reveal him I'm gonna guess either in episode two or three so I like that level of suspense Jaws is one of my all-time favorite films you know they barely showed the shark in that film

Starting point is 00:13:15 I think the shark's got maybe five or six minutes of screen time so I think the weight is gonna be palpable in terms of us like let's get to Pennywise so I think I'm excited at the prospect of it because I think they really knew in the first two films at least when to use Pennywise and when to hold back so I'm I'm truly as much as I wanted to see him in this. I have all faith, especially Andy Mochietti's working on this. I have all faith

Starting point is 00:13:38 that they're going to know when to use him and when not to use him. I happen to love Andy Mochetti. I thought it was a really cool reference in this that we got that Flash comic book, especially because Andy... Oh, right, right, right. Totally. But one thing that I did look up just now, which is kind of funny, is that the

Starting point is 00:13:54 casting director of this also was the casting director of the Flash, and also seemingly was the casting director of... Or no, I guess, yeah, it was the casting director of lock and key which is the other show that the little girl was on oh so it seems like there's a lot of got a rapport yeah exactly um good good stuff with rich delia and stephanie goren who are the cast and i got to tell you this too you made a great point there that he put the flash in there

Starting point is 00:14:22 yeah also showed a detective comics of batman because he's supposed to direct Batman the brave and the bowl exactly let me show both the comic book things i'm supposed a one i directed and the one i'm going to be directing and he's deep in bed with warner brothers obviously um I have to say that I know a lot of people didn't, but I happen to really like the Flash movie, actually, and I'm a big fan of Andy Lusieti's. I haven't gotten your guys' take on It Chapter 2. I know it's more divisive than the first It,

Starting point is 00:14:46 but did you guys enjoy it? Yeah, we really enjoyed it. I think there were a few moments here and there where it was dragging a bit, but I think because we were so emotionally pulled and invested in the Losers Club that the dragging didn't bother us in any way, I think the biggest thing that,

Starting point is 00:15:03 I'm not going to speak for terror, But the biggest thing that that bothered me the most about the movie, even though I still really enjoyed it. I think I enjoyed the first one more, but was a lot of the CGI kind of pulled me out a little bit of it. But overall, I still had, I really enjoyed the film a great deal. I thought it was a very worthy sequel. I think you could have cut it down by about 10, 15 minutes or so overall. I thought it was an absolutely great film, though. Really, I love that series, the first two films, though.

Starting point is 00:15:27 Terry, you like to do? Yeah, I did actually like it. I think in my review, I was like, if they had cut it down, a good 20, 30, minutes. I don't think we needed all that. The part at the end, which I thought was going to be a really big payoff, which it was in the first one, he's a big CGI like spider thing. I didn't enjoy that very much. I didn't think it was very scary. I thought the first one was scarier. The second one, still a good plot, still a good storyline, like seeing them as adults. Still enjoyed it. I just literally had almost zero faults at the first and some with the second. Okay. I feel you.

Starting point is 00:16:02 Yeah. I feel you. All this to say. that I trust Andy Mochetti and I think that he's going to make the choices. I think that Jason Fuchs, if I remember, I should look this up, but I think he worked on Wonder Woman, which might be also another DC thing. Let me see, because I think he's a producer on this and also writer. Andy Mochieti really understands emotion and how to pull you into characters. So when it comes to that, I have the utmost faith in him. Yeah, he did.

Starting point is 00:16:25 He wrote Wonder Woman. Oh, he did? The first, the 2017. The 2017. Oh, awesome. I love that movie. We love the 2017 one. I remember because I interviewed him for DC movie.

Starting point is 00:16:34 news back in the day. Oh, cool. And I was like, I think that's what it was for. Obviously, there was other credits on the movie, too, but he was story by Jason Fuchs. Nice. So a lot of Warner brothers, a lot of DC. Yeah. All mix it. Yeah. Before we get into final thoughts, I think this should be a thing we say in every single reaction or review, rather. Was there a favorite moment or a favorite kill that you guys had? Well, I didn't want any of the kills to happen. I'm not, I I've been agreement, but it's still a horror thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's one that went, holy freaking crap.

Starting point is 00:17:10 I would say maybe the one with... When she birthed a fucking demon out of her vagina and they showed it to us, that was gnarly. That was gnarly. The reveal of the hand still holding the hand after she reached for the little girl. I thought that was a... Especially if you're going to kill off somebody who is like five years old, I would much rather would see her hand than that. So I thought that that was, for lack of better words, the most tactful. I think that also stays in line with the spirit of the very first one with George

Starting point is 00:17:40 that little kids or nobody are susceptible to being killed off by Pennywise, nobody's safe. So, yeah, unfortunately. But yeah, great pilot episode. Really wish some of these kids able to survive. But very anxious and curious to see where we go from here. So I'm fully invested. I think you two are as well. Do you guys have any other things you'd like to save where we move?

Starting point is 00:18:04 move on now excited to see them next week all right oh man all right well thanks guys if you stuck with us this long let us know your thoughts below what do you think of the show so far is it a worthy first episode to it chapters one and two and we will see you on the next episode episode two of it welcome to dairy take care stay safe float Hi, I'm Gene Chatsky, long time Today Show financial editor, author of Women with Money and host of the Her Money podcast. If you are 10 years or less from retirement and you're unsure if you're on track, well, you're not alone. But you don't have to guess anymore. Finance Fix is my six-week class that helps you find your retirement number, build a plan, and feel

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The Reel Rejects - IT - WELCOME TO DERRY 1x01 Breakdown & Review

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