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Decoding TV

Bonus Ep: 'It: Welcome to Derry' Takes Some Big Swings. Is It Enough?

Decoding TV

David Chen

Tv & Film, Unknown, Netflix, Tv, Television, Streaming, Recap, Hulu, Fx, Hbo, Max

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this Decoding TV bonus episode, David and Patrick discuss the season premiere of It: Welcome to Derry. What are the ways in which this show expands on the lore of the book? What did we make of the bold decisions at the end of the first episode? If this show starts at a 12, does it have anywhere to go? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.

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0:00.0

Dreamer, I'm just a dreamer.

0:05.8

With renting a house in town, eight years living on base, I just think my missus is ready for a little taste of normal.

0:11.9

Well, if normal is what you're after, you two are going to love dairy.

0:16.6

You don't like it much down here, do you, Mrs. Hamlet?

0:19.3

You know, it's hard not to miss the things he'd leave behind.

0:27.3

Welcome to Decoding TV's coverage of It. Welcome to Dairy.

0:36.9

This is a bonus episode. I'm David Chen here with Patrick

0:39.4

Patrick. Patrick's joining us today despite the fact that he is not feeling well. Again, Patrick,

0:44.4

thanks for chatting, even though your lungs are not happy with me right now. No, my lungs aren't

0:50.1

happy, but look at these sparkly fingernails, you know? If you're just listening to the podcast, you'll see Patrick has

0:55.8

some nail polish on.

0:57.7

That's quite fetching.

0:59.4

Well, you know, if you want to win the neighborhood

1:01.3

Halloween contest four years in a row,

1:04.9

you've got to go above and beyond.

1:06.0

And so my Glinda costume had to go above and beyond

1:09.9

at the Halloween party and we did

1:12.5

win again crushed it you could almost say that you are defying gravity yes yes of not winning

1:20.1

the contest it's true it's true the Halloween party invite now actually includes scathing comments like

1:25.8

could the clubbics please not win the contest

1:28.6

we need everyone to step up their game and they got close but I stepped up my own game and won

1:34.9

again well today we're going to be talking about it welcome to dairy now I do want to say

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