‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Season 2 & Season 3: Andy Muschietti Previews Epic Plan
The first season of “IT: Welcome to Derry” came to a fully satisfying end last night, with the final episode firmly connecting the series to feature films IT and IT: Chapter Two and even teasing Pennywise’s plans for future seasons of the series. The bad news? Season 2 hasn’t yet been officially ordered up. The good news? Second and third seasons are definitely planned.
Spoilers for the “IT: Welcome to Derry” Season 1 finale are incoming…
Long story short, we learned last night that Pennywise experiences time differently than the rest of us, with the evil entity experiencing past, present and future all at once. How exactly that works is a little bit unclear, but the Season 1 finale of “Welcome to Derry” reveals that Pennywise has been on a mission to kill Marge this whole time, who it turns out is the mother of Losers Club member Richie Tozier (Finn Wolfhard). Richie and his pals will eventually go on to kill Pennywise, and Pennywise knows this and has been attempting to stop his future fate.
It’s strongly suggested in the finale that Pennywise will now dig further back into the Losers Club family tree in an attempt to prevent his own demise, which lines up with everything we’ve been hearing about planned future seasons of “IT: Welcome to Derry” for a while now.
If HBO orders up a second season – and we assume it’s only a matter of time – “Welcome to Derry” will travel back to 1935, with the third season jumping back even further to 1908!
IT of course wakes up and feeds every 27 years, so the series will be tracking those cycles throughout time. The show’s first season took place in 1962, while the first IT (2017) movie was set in 1989 and Muschietti’s IT: Chapter Two (2019) jumped forward 27 years to 2016. Each cycle begins and ends with a horrific act, while Pennywise feasts on children throughout.
“His experience of time is non-linear. How is that and why, that’s a whole exploration that we intend to flesh out during the next two seasons, but that was pretty much [the idea] from the beginning,” producer/director Andy Muschietti tells Deadline. “The pitch to Stephen King was we’re going to tell a story backwards, and it has to do with that hint.”
Muschietti aims to answer a very specific question in Season 2 & 3: “Is [IT] going backwards in a linear way, or is he omnipresent, and how does that affect the story that we already know?”
“We’re going to learn a lot of things about it,” Muschietti adds. “We are going to know more about the Bob Gray of things, and we are going to know more about Ingrid, because Ingrid was around in the ’30s. Our second season happens in 1935. I think it’s a pretty tragic character. She’s a very specific, very unique character, because she’s a victim, but she’s a perpetrator too. She’s tricked into thinking that her dad is still there somewhere in the shadows of that monster, and she wants to liberate him, but the only way to see him and try to liberate him is by creating all these baits [and] all this pain, because she knows that he will show up.”
Stay tuned for updates on “Welcome to Derry” Season 2 & Season 3.
