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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 84-It: Welcome To Derry Season 1, Episodes 1-3

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to Derry. In this episode, I examine our return to King's most famous (move over, Castle Rock) haunted town. In the wake of the massive pop cultural success of It: Chapter One and Chapter Two, is this show strong enough to stand on its own? Or is it just a cash grab? Find out here, as I examine the first three episodes of It: Welcome to Derry.  As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast. One Man's Music is on the Works of Stephen King.

0:06.7

Each week, I'll review one of the entries of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

0:11.9

Usually, that's what I used to do once upon a time. But what I am doing now, because I accomplish that,

0:17.9

I am touching upon Stephen King related stuff.

0:23.6

And the stuff in question today that I will be discussing

0:27.6

are the first three episodes and my overall impressions

0:30.6

of Welcome to Dairy, the adaptation based on Stephen King's It, which is on HBO Max, a sort of prequel, which pulls events from and inspired by the rich text from it and actually other Stephen King novels as well, which I will get to.

0:57.5

So for longtime listeners, welcome back.

1:00.5

Thank you for returning for my thoughts on welcome to Derry.

1:06.0

And for new time listeners, welcome.

1:08.3

Welcome to the Stephen King cast.

1:09.8

I hope that you enjoy it. Just for your,

1:13.1

you know, information and understanding purposes, the original version of this podcast was, as I stated,

1:24.1

at the top of this episode. It was designed to go through the chronological order of Stephen King's works and

1:31.3

analyze the characters, the themes, how each story fits into the overall Stephen King opus.

1:40.3

So if that interests you, there is a ton of free episodes in the back catalog that you can just go through.

1:50.3

But what the show is now is it's like this.

1:57.2

I'm not covering Welcome to Dairy weekly.

2:00.5

I'm not going into episode by episode. but I did want to take some time to go over my general

2:07.5

thoughts on Welcome to Dairy and ask for listener feedback.

2:15.1

I want to know what your thoughts are on Welcome to Dairy. So if you do

2:19.2

have any thoughts on whether you are liking it, whether you're disliking it, feel free

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