The Reel Rejects - IT: WELCOME TO DERRY 1x02 Breakdown & Review!!

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Starting point is 00:02:17 not not suspenseful there's got to be the moment the buildup Yeah, I don't know. Okay, I'm just saying, just saying. I really enjoyed it so far. I think we all had the same thought process of... You have to pass my phone so I can look up that dude while you're... Be right back. I understand how ridiculous that is, but I actually can't function without knowing for any longer.

Starting point is 00:02:38 So keep going on. I think we all had the same cautionary apprehension at the end of the last episode where you off to a lot of the kids that we, or teenagers, that we were already invested in. So where are we going to go from here? And so far, I'm really, I know we haven't spent a lot of time yet with Will and with not Scotty. What was the other kid's name? I know they've said it like five times. The one who was like looking at Marge in a age. Rich? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:05 What was it? Rich? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he's like, get out of here with the smoke bomb. I know we've only spent a little bit of time with them. But I'm already liking this new group of kids that we've gotten to know. And I can't wait to explore these characters even more.

Starting point is 00:03:19 so i really really like will a lot he fascinates me so much in that he's not willing to adhere to pressure in terms of like most of the kids go to sports for instance and his thing is science and like it really excites him and i love that he doesn't as i just mentioned fall under peer pressure of if what most people will perceive as weird i embrace that weirdness so you know i i take that with a great deal of pleasure because I myself feel like I am very weird and I'm proud of that as well so I think Will is such a relatable character

Starting point is 00:03:56 in that sense and I think when it comes to just the times we're in the fact that this is a horror show in general and the world is kind of encompassing the horror that people had to go through at the time minorities

Starting point is 00:04:13 in the 60s I mean still have to deal with that nowadays too but it's like They're trying to pin on someone who was not even at the location. And it's just really disgusting to watch. And, yeah, I think that's, like, the real horror of the show, like just how people of color were treated at that time. But it adds a grounded realism to the show. So I think the show is being handled in a very mature way.

Starting point is 00:04:40 I think it's executed very well. I think the script is fantastic so far in the two episodes. But also at the same time when you get really frustrated with characters that we really do care about, like with Lily when she had to say that, yeah, he was there. It's like she was emotionally manipulated in that moment, and also we got to remember at the same point, yeah, she has agency and she's a smart kid, but she's also like 12, 13 or 14, however old, she was a police officer manipulated her in that moment where there was no adult there to supervise and help her out. So I'm not justifying what she did or said, but I have perspective enough

Starting point is 00:05:13 to sympathize with her, and that sucks. She was entrapped by an adult, a piece of shit, adult there who was threatened in his own right by the councilman or whatever who threatened his job so it's just and she ultimately ended up in the same and she ended up there either way so it's like but that's kind of the lesson of life i think is yeah do the right thing because you might end up in the bad place no matter what right you got to yeah you got to do stand up for what you for what's right i totally agree that is a good lesson there it's a cautionary lesson as well so totally what do you think, Roxy? Well, I wanted to say Great Call by you. It is

Starting point is 00:05:47 Luke Fox on... Lucia's Fox? Yeah, but he goes by Luke, I think, on the show on Gotham. If I remember correctly on Gotham, let me see how he's actually credited, because Lucius Fox... Oh, no, I think even by Luke Fox and Batwoman. I confuse all my DC shows.

Starting point is 00:06:02 They all merge together, but I love Gotham. I watched every episode, and still, you pulled that, and I could not. So what does that mean? I've only seen a season and a half, too. But it's actually not what I was remembering him from when I kept being like, I've seen him something more recent, where am I pulling this from?

Starting point is 00:06:18 He was in an episode of Feud, which is a show that I absolutely loved. He was in 16 episodes of Perry Mason, and he was in Godzilla versus Kong. But what I was thinking of is him and when they see us, which is another amazing, amazing show that he did. So he's been in a lot of stuff. He was also in Detroit.

Starting point is 00:06:35 He was in underground. He's been a ton of things. And then our main dude, not our main dude, but the military guy who, like, knows what's up and is really good at his job. He, his name is, I don't know how to say, if it's Joe Vaughn, Adepo. And he has been in a bazillion things. He was in fences.

Starting point is 00:06:55 He was an overlord. He's in Babylon to catch a killer. He was in three-body problem, which I really enjoyed that show on Netflix. So why we keep recognizing him and people is because they clearly all book a lot. Yeah, he's great. I really like him. He's a greatly. Clearly, clearly, extremely well-cast show.

Starting point is 00:07:17 How did I feel about this episode? I feel like I am curious why we spent so much time on some of the people in the pilot. You know, I was a little, the show is doing great. I'm really enjoying it while I'm watching it. Yeah. But we have, now we are in the end of episode two. The end of episode one, we spent a significant amount of time with people that I really cared about, that now we are maybe not going to see again.

Starting point is 00:07:43 And I understand it adds to the trauma of the people who are surviving. But I feel like it was enough adding to the trauma just with the death of Maddie. So, you know, I didn't feel like we needed to kill more kids in order for me to get there and make us attached to more people. But maybe we do.

Starting point is 00:07:58 Maybe, and we'll feel that later on. I just think we only have nine episodes and I really want to get to know our people. And we started introducing more characters in this one that I'm like, I wish we had been able to spend a little more time with them, especially on a show like this that isn't a binge model

Starting point is 00:08:12 when you really have to wait every single week. I really want to know our players and because we haven't gotten to Pennywise yet. So the suspense is building and they're doing a great job with that but part of me is like

Starting point is 00:08:23 are we using our time wisely which ultimately we will know at the ending. I think because I'm coming off of other HBO show I'm coming off watching Peacemaker Season 2 where I feel like that show didn't use its time necessarily as wisely as it possibly could

Starting point is 00:08:36 because we did some meandering and we did some side quests and then some of the stuff that really hit home at the end I feel like we didn't focus on enough at the beginning that might be top of mind for me right now

Starting point is 00:08:45 but it's not really fair to put that on this show because in general if you ask me how I'm feeling when I'm watching this I'm enthralled I feel like it's really really I'm watching this like

Starting point is 00:08:55 holy crap I can't believe that television has gotten this good in 2025 but this is to me it looks as good as the movies I mean it's really incredible

Starting point is 00:09:03 to watch and I'm invest in the story so really really liking it has have my hesitation but those might be personal hesitations. Yeah, that makes sense. I think what I like the most about this is the really disgusting effects that they gave us,

Starting point is 00:09:19 especially there at the end with the dad. I mean, that was just, that's disgusting. And it's so very much, yeah, that too. I mean, that's already just like, why do I need to see more of a woman a vagina? I know. I'm not in the mood. Gross.

Starting point is 00:09:32 Honestly, I wasn't in the mood before and then we had it again. And another umbilical cord, and I don't want to see it. I don't want it, but you're giving it to me. And just, like, it makes me want to vomit, but that's the point I think of the show. Oh, there's, you know, the effects are so good that they're just really, really disgusting. I think the character that I really like right now, but I also feel just so badly for is Ronnie. Also, Lily, as the lead, she's great.

Starting point is 00:10:04 Like, you look at her, you put her in a pickup shot, and I, she's right there. she's grounded she's doing her job and she's young like i'm like yeah give her give her the work i also really like ronnie but i feel just it's tragic like that's tragedy her dad is going to jail her she's like left her grandma who's going to be heartbroken because her son's there now she finds out lily didn't tell the truth made a mistake she was like i was tricked nobody even really ronnie doesn't even have that many friends i was just like it's sad as hell in here totally Just really, it's just sad. For sure.

Starting point is 00:10:38 So I don't know. One new friend at least. I know. Oh, with Will. That's true. I like that interaction. Thank goodness. That was a good one.

Starting point is 00:10:46 That was a good one great friend. Yeah. Yeah, you're right about that. Thank God they went into, like, detention together so that they could form that bond. Yeah. And that he really felt like he wanted them to both get in trouble. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:58 I did. I did. Right now, I did. That was such a great interaction, too. You know, like when he was talking about. his science book I was like oh my god he's showing himself his true self to her

Starting point is 00:11:11 without caring because before he was like no no no it's fine oh and then he was like like word vomit science which I really I like that a lot. Reject Nation you know those nights when you're starving fridge is empty and you absolutely

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Starting point is 00:12:32 First-time customers only terms and fees do apply. in the description box in pink comment or the easiest way you can scan this QR code right here on screen and make your first order today so um i'm loving what they're doing so far i'm with you on that yeah no i think in order to self-heal you need a very good supporting cast or rather support unit around you so i think that's going to be very important especially with ronnie and will and rich i would imagine too lily at some point there's going to have to be a forgiveness arc when it comes to ronnie and also when it comes to to Lily having the perspective of like, hey, I made a mistake, obviously, you know, no justification, but I understand that I was manipulated into saying what I said, but, you know, having the force sense to understand

Starting point is 00:13:19 that and apologize, of course, and hopefully get her dad out of prison. I don't know how that's going to work in the time we're in right now, but especially, as I've pointed out, quite a few times that it seems that Pennywise has this entire town in a day,

Starting point is 00:13:35 as we saw when Charlotte the mom, Will's mom they saw kids like beating up on another kid and nobody reacted in any way shape or form and it's the 60s but even so I feel like people would react to that so

Starting point is 00:13:50 instead of boys will be boys I agree they're like it's not they're all in a trance they're like yeah they're in a trance like they were beating the crap out of this kid they even know everybody in town and I'm that one line where he's like oh no I'm just mean I know everybody here yeah yeah this and these movies in the show just really do a good job of play or pennywise does a really chaotic job of playing on people's fears i mean you got with with uh lily and on playing on guilt for

Starting point is 00:14:20 instance and and really recreating that in a creative and sadistic way with the pickles so that was yeah it's very and then the mom with i we're not going to go into the graphic details but i'm like that's just sadistic and mean and that's what penny wise is and it's why we hate him but it's also why we appreciate the character in a effed up way so i just can't wait to at some point see bill scars i'm curious when that's going to be but i'm definitely into the show and i really like will's dad a great deal i think that's one of my favorite scenes i pretty much enjoy every scene i've seen of him but just seeing how resourceful intuitive he is like to pull the files and uh be smart enough to know like this guy's not even going to be able to like

Starting point is 00:15:03 I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to go to his vulnerable spot talking about his mom because I know he's not going to like someone like me talking about. His mom hit him where it hurts. And let's see him try to load the gun because I know he's not going to be able to. I already pulled his files. I can love that. That was such a bad scene without even, he didn't need to be violent or do anything. It just showed how smart he was.

Starting point is 00:15:23 It's the best scene in the show so far, I think, because it's a show don't tell. We are able to really see. I am curious now about James Remar's character on whether he's actually. a good guy because that's the way that the show set it up, the fact that he did that and he put him through that and then didn't come clean about it until he gets called out on it and then brings him into the operation. I think it's very

Starting point is 00:15:45 smart because we're looking at the show thinking, is this a villain or is this really, and did he do this because he's a person of color? Or did he do this because this is what you do in the military and he needed to really check because of the brain injury? And a lot of the other characters on the show right now are very black and white. We know who's good. We know who's evil, especially

Starting point is 00:16:03 like the person in the cell, right? Even though he didn't do this, he's a racist POS. We know that. A lot of the people in the town who want the dad of Ronnie to be arrested, racist POSs. We know that.

Starting point is 00:16:13 We know who our good guys are. We know who our bad guys are. So it's nice to have some characters where it's like, you did a bad thing. Are you a bad guy? I'm not sure. I think he comes off as very soft-hearted,

Starting point is 00:16:26 but he also comes off as self-serving. So I'm curious to see where we... But is it self-serving or is it world-serving? Does he think, you know, like... I guess we're going to... Yeah, we're going to find out because... Not justifying what he did, it's wrong.

Starting point is 00:16:39 Of course, of course. And the fact that he didn't tell him in any way, like, hey, this was... I'm so sorry we had to do this. This was just a test. He had to find out all this information in order to say, yeah, so take that seat like we want... So I don't trust him as of right now. Yeah, I don't trust him either, but the more we're talking about it, it's interesting. It's the opposite of what happened with peacemaker.

Starting point is 00:17:01 The more we're talking about it, the more invested. I actually am in the show, the more I feel like they really are setting up. But I do think that when you're not doing a binge model show, if you're not going to introduce Pennywise early on, you probably should have given us three episodes in one week instead of making people come back a week, wait a week in between for us not to have our main characters come through

Starting point is 00:17:21 to the second episode and not have Pennywise, but really, who am I to say that by the end? It might feel like great. Well, there's tons of people who may have not watched the movies. I don't know why they would end up watching the show. show, but that happens all the time. So if they are not engulfed in the lore of what it is, and they're like, there's voices coming from out of the sink, and why are these people seeing things? Is this nightmare in Elm Street? What the, is this? What are they, what horror movie

Starting point is 00:17:48 are they stealing from? Because we specifically have not seen Pennywise at all. I do agree. Exactly. But it was just kind of like, that's it, right? And that's a nice callback to when we saw with the weird teeth and his eyes were in one or two or whatever. We saw his eyes in something. But I'm like, there's still going to be. I think people that are going to go and watch this show because it's on HBO and maybe have not watched the movies. And I guess we'll see how long they stick to it.

Starting point is 00:18:17 I don't know why you would want to do it if you haven't seen any movies. But I think it's definitely going to be plausible. And I do agree with you that in that case, Pennywise should definitely be present. I just want to say one last thing because we do got to get going. I thought it was really interesting writing when it came to how Marge was acting towards Lily and like, hey, you got to stop acting like a loony because we got to be

Starting point is 00:18:38 friends with these girls and they're not going to like that and all that. And it's like, well, you're not adhering to my feelings right now. And then Lily did the exact same thing to Veronica. It's like you're not adhering to her feelings and being a good friend and I understand why you don't want

Starting point is 00:18:54 to go to the loony bin. You're trying to protect yourself. And also this cop coerced you into doing that. But I found the parallels and the writing there was really good point uh well done there do you really good point do you just one thing before we go because we haven't talked too much about it the the the creature that we keep seeing oh the baby thing we didn't even see that in the movies right right so not to the best of my knowledge yeah to your point Tara I'm curious of people who have never seen the movies think that that that's right like that that's the monster of the show right um and and and that takes

Starting point is 00:19:25 different forms and is taking over the mom or whatever because right we we haven't even had reference so far. Right. Really, yeah. We know that the credits. I mean, the intro credits. Well, we know about this, the Andy Mushietti's goal, though, is that every, it's every 27 years that Penny Wise comes out, right?

Starting point is 00:19:44 So we know that this one is in the 60s. Then season two is supposed to be 27 years earlier, and season three is supposed to be 27 years before that. Oh. So that is his plan for this franchise right now. I had no idea. It's supposed to be, okay, great. Then I'm glad we're talking about it.

Starting point is 00:19:57 It's supposed to be three seasons. And that's how we're supposed to be. but we're going to keep going back and back and back. Oh, wow. And so I am kind of curious if this is where we're starting, then what actually is going to be that origin story they're planning on telling because this is not the origin story considering we're... I would imagine season three we're going to get the definitive origin story of Pennywise.

Starting point is 00:20:18 I was just guessing as we're talking about. Right, right, because otherwise what he would have said, we'll do four seasons. No, he has said this is my plan. They've only greenlit one season, but his plan is to do three seasons and keep going back every season. That sounds awesome. I'm down for that.

Starting point is 00:20:31 That's pretty cool. Yeah, I'm mostly curious at the end, you know, the car they pull out with a bunch of skeletons. Like, what are we looking at? What's the force they're talking about that's behind it? I mean, our assumption is like, okay, Pennywise does create a huge fear that could kill a man in his tracks without, like, weapons.

Starting point is 00:20:49 So I don't know if that's like, oh, from back then they saw Pennywise, and I don't know, they all died in the car. We'll see. I'm intrigued. Do you guys have any last thoughts before? we get out of here no just excited for next week can't wait to get to know more about the kids hopefully lily doesn't have to spend too much time at juniper hill whatever that's called yeah we're gonna see some pennywise fear up in there can't remember one name of a kid does remember the mental institution

Starting point is 00:21:16 sums up what does that say about me the tea says you're awesome we love you guys we'll see you on the next one Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - IT: WELCOME TO DERRY 1x02 Breakdown & Review!!

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