IT: Welcome to Derry episode 6 could have made us briefly surprise if Mrs Kersh (Madeleine Stowe) is Pennywise’s daughter, however episode 7 has now given us the reply.

Opening with yet one more flashback to 1908, the penultimate episode in Andy Muschietti’s prequel series takes us again to the origin of not the monster itself, however the creature’s notorious clown persona.

So what can we be taught? We have unpacked all of it beneath.

What occurs with Pennywise in episode 7?

In 1908, Ingrid Kersh (Madeleine Stowe) is working on the enjoyable honest together with her father Bob Grey (Invoice Skarsgård), who performs as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. When he is in his costume he appears to be like like a price range model of the evil Pennywise we have come to know all too nicely, and it is clear that the person himself is not an evil, child-snatching entity.

So what is going on on right here?

The primary clue comes once we see a creepy youngster watching Pennywise from a window with an unsmiling expression on his face. Later, that very same youngster approaches a makeup-free Bob and tells him that “the youngsters appear drawn to you.” The child then says he cannot discover his dad and mom, earlier than main Bob into the woods in the direction of the sound of screams.

The following factor we all know Ingrid’s father has disappeared, and all that continues to be of him is a blood-spattered handkerchief that is been discovered within the forest.

What does it inform us about Pennywise’s origin?

Firstly, the episode guidelines out any chance of Mrs Kersh being the monster’s precise daughter (as she herself realises in the direction of the episode’s finish). What it does inform us is that Pennywise was as soon as an actual, human clown, chosen by the creature on account of his recognition with kids. Primarily the clown is simply one other certainly one of IT’s many disguises — the shape it reverts to when it desires to lure in kids.

New episodes of IT: Welcome to Derry premiere Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.