On 10/21/2025 at 4:08 PM, Alpha_TATEr said:

the chair company is pretty good so far.

this show gets wilder by the episode.

17 hours ago, hputenis said:

If my wife walked in on me watching that opening scene, I’d have a lot of explaining to do.

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You’ve got a hemorrhaging birth, a bat baby with no eyeballs, an umbilical cord, and creepy children. My happy place is different than Happy Gilmore.

oh my brother, believe me, you already have a ton to explain.

2 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

oh my brother, believe me, you already have a ton to explain.

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The Chair Company. 😂😂 Omg. I wish I could explain how I felt about this show. It might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, but it’s also funny, and I’m dying to see what happens at the end. Brilliant writing to keep an audience intrigued by this stupid ass plot.

12 hours ago, hputenis said:

The Chair Company. 😂😂 Omg. I wish I could explain how I felt about this show. It might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, but it’s also funny, and I’m dying to see what happens at the end. Brilliant writing to keep an audience intrigued by this stupid ass plot.

dude, that's probably the best way i could describe it.

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this guy is so over the top neurotic, but at the same time, he's right about everything!

It:WTD Ep.2 is almost as insane as the first. Holy crap. It’s been surprisingly great so far but we’ll see where they go with the whole military storyline.

I've only watched ep.1 so far but the issue I have with Welcome to Derry is it kinda sh**s on the canon of the book. The book is literally that there's a historic cycle of horrific events in Derry caused by a trans dimensional monster and a bunch of kids beat IT severely in 1958 and end that cycle early think they've killed it but then it wakes up in 1985 worse than ever.

WTD is like oh this weird ass horrific thing happened in 1962 but the narrator of the book apparently didn't think to mention it, even though he was specifically watching for it to make the other protagonists honor their promise at the time.

It's a decent horror watch, though.

22 minutes ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

I've only watched ep.1 so far but the issue I have with Welcome to Derry is it kinda sh**s on the canon of the book. The book is literally that there's a historic cycle of horrific events in Derry caused by a trans dimensional monster and a bunch of kids beat IT severely in 1958 and end that cycle early think they've killed it but then it wakes up in 1985 worse than ever.

WTD is like oh this weird ass horrific thing happened in 1962 but the narrator of the book apparently didn't think to mention it, even though he was specifically watching for it to make the other protagonists honor their promise at the time.

It's a decent horror watch, though.

I've literally just this second realised (despite watching it at the time) that the 2017 film was apparently set in 1989 for some reason and this is based on that canon, which has somehow annoyed me even more.

4 minutes ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

I've literally just this second realised (despite watching it at the time) that the 2017 film was apparently set in 1989 for some reason and this is based on that canon, which has somehow annoyed me even more.

Yeah they changed the timeline for the new movies to make it more "current". Part 1 was set in the 80s and then part 2 in recent times.

6 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

Yeah they changed the timeline for the new movies to make it more "current". Part 1 was set in the 80s and then part 2 in recent times.

Yeah, I struggled to watch horror films in the late 2010's with kids (pausing every ten minutes because one is coming downstairs and whatnot), and somehow didn't notice that the townsfolk were driving round in boxy 1980's cars rather than long, finned boats from the late 50's.

The thing about IT the book is there is SO MUCH history wrapped up in that massive book - it would be impossible to properly translate it to the screen. I thought they did a really good job with the first part of the remake movies. Second part was OK, with my biggest gripe being the final form IT/Pennywise took. I'm on the fence about the show so far, two episodes in.

17 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

The thing about IT the book is there is SO MUCH history wrapped up in that massive book - it would be impossible to properly translate it to the screen. I thought they did a really good job with the first part of the remake movies. Second part was OK, with my biggest gripe being the final form IT/Pennywise took. I'm on the fence about the show so far, two episodes in.

I always thought the book would've worked best as a series anyway, the current era of big production prestige TV could've done a real solid job of covering the full scope of the book with better effects and more of the real darkness and gore that wasn't all in the 1990 series.

On 10/29/2025 at 9:35 PM, hputenis said:

The Chair Company. 😂😂 Omg. I wish I could explain how I felt about this show. It might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, but it’s also funny, and I’m dying to see what happens at the end. Brilliant writing to keep an audience intrigued by this stupid ass plot.

i watched the first episode when it came out. immediatley thought it would be better to wait and binge the whole season one day. how many episodes are out yet?

Watched the second Ep of Welcome to Derry, the Army storyline might be where I check out, you can shift the timeline to fit in with the film universe, but like literally one of the tentpoles of the book canon is that this thing has been happening in Derry for centuries and no one outside Derry notices because it has some sort of mental effect, so why would you make one of the main plot points of your prequel series that not only is the US Government aware of what's going on in Derry, it wants to use it as a weapon?

1 hour ago, Cochis_Calhoun said:

Watched the second Ep of Welcome to Derry, the Army storyline might be where I check out, you can shift the timeline to fit in with the film universe, but like literally one of the tentpoles of the book canon is that this thing has been happening in Derry for centuries and no one outside Derry notices because it has some sort of mental effect, so why would you make one of the main plot points of your prequel series that not only is the US Government aware of what's going on in Derry, it wants to use it as a weapon?

Ep. 3 is relevant to your concerns.

Saw this theory posted online - it's very interesting and I kinda like it

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Episode 3 just on JioHotstar dropped and I have been rewatching Eps 1–2 of IT Welcome To Derry and I can’t shake this idea, so here’s my pre-ep 3 brain dump
The town is a psychic organism that’s been fermenting in violence for generations, and Pennywise is just the avatar it uses when it needs a face.
The more I look at the early episodes, the more it feels like the directors are shooting Derry as if it has a nervous system.
The pipes, the drains, the theatre vents, the camera keeps gliding through them like the town is breathing.
Even the transitions feel like the town is eavesdropping on people.
And characters keep mentioning how the "air changes” or how something "feels off,” but nobody pins it on a single figure. It’s always Derry itself.
The wild part, the two major storylines (the kids and the adults at the Black Spot) aren’t connected by characters or events. They’re connected by geography. Everything circles back to the same few square miles of cursed soil.
So here’s what I think Ep 3 might show

1. multiple kids getting hit by visions at the same moment, even if they’re nowhere near each other

2. some map or blueprint of Derry where the plumbing/sewer layout lines up too neatly with where the entity appears

3. adults reacting to the same "shift in the room” that the kids feel, like the town is flexing

4. maybe even a moment where Pennywise feels less like a creature and more like the town borrowing a shape
   Why this works: King has always written Derry like a living ecosystem, with IT sort of fused to it. But the show might flip the hierarchy, IT isn’t the disease infecting Derry. IT’s just the symptom. The real organism is the town, and it’s hungry long before the clown shows up.
   If Ep 3 leans into that, we’re in for something way bigger than a simple origin story.

Chair Company and I Love L.A. are both off to very strong starts.

On 11/4/2025 at 11:58 AM, mikemack8 said:

The thing about IT the book is there is SO MUCH history wrapped up in that massive book - it would be impossible to properly translate it to the screen. I thought they did a really good job with the first part of the remake movies. Second part was OK, with my biggest gripe being the final form IT/Pennywise took. I'm on the fence about the show so far, two episodes in.

My favorite part about the show is the intro. Nothing burns my midnight oil like a scene set during the Cold War. You’ve got a child singing a creepy melody, psychiatric institutions that handed out lobotomies like Tylenol, and the never ending fun threat of burning alive from a ‘ukn nuke!!

Lol decent episode of Welcome to Derry

It's always white peoples fault

I haven't had HBO Max for a few years, I used to get it free with my internet provider before I moved.

Is it worth it?

Black Friday deal $2.99/month.

4 minutes ago, NOTW said:

I haven't had HBO Max for a few years, I used to get it free with my internet provider before I moved.

Is it worth it?

Black Friday deal $2.99/month.

If you're a fan of the Game of Thrones universe there are two big releases next year. Welcome to Derry has been entertaining so far. Task was really good. The Pitt was amazing and season 2 hits early next year I think. I would say yes.

1 minute ago, mikemack8 said:

If you're a fan of the Game of Thrones universe there are two big releases next year. Welcome to Derry has been entertaining so far. Task was really good. The Pitt was amazing and season 2 hits early next year I think. I would say yes.

Also DC content, and any new movies.

I think I'll do it for that price.

4 hours ago, NOTW said:

Also DC content, and any new movies.

I think I'll do it for that price.

Yes that's an insanely great price even just a little bit of content makes it worth it.

Flight Risk - Straightforward, enjoyable little popcorn flick.

On 11/27/2025 at 1:31 PM, The_Omega said:

Flight Risk - Straightforward, enjoyable little popcorn flick.

I don’t want to spoiler anything but Wahlberg ruined this movie for me