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It: Welcome to Derry has officially wrapped up Pennywise's horrific 1962 feeding cycle in Derry with the final episode's premiere on HBO Max. The season finale, along with delivering a shocking yet surprisingly happy finale, has also set up a projected narrative for more seasons.
The reveal, paired with comments from Andy Muschietti, has all but confirmed that Pennywise's horrors are anything but over, even though the streamer HBO Max has yet to renew the show for more seasons. Now, the latest numbers from the It: Welcome to Derry finale viewership have also added another seal of confirmation around Derry's return.
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Keep reading to find out more about Andy Muschietti's plans for Welcome to Derry Season 2.
It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 is yet to be renewed by HBO Max, but its viewership says otherwise
It: Welcome to Derry managed to deliver one of its biggest reveals of multiple seasons by establishing an exceptional narrative hook in Pennywise's experience with time.
The Welcome to Derry creators have been loose-handed with their references to the It movies throughout the show, but even that could not have prepared fans for Pennywise pulling out a missing poster of Richie Tozier, Margaret Tozier's son from the future, in front of the thirteen-year-old Marge. It tells her that her son brought about its death, referring to the Losers Club's fight against Pennywise in the films.
"The seed of your stinking loins and his filthy friends bring me my death. Or is it birth? I get confused. Tomorrow? Yesterday? It's all the same for little Pennywise."
The horrifying sequence establishes that Pennywise does not linearly experience time and that the past, present, and future are all the same for it. It will do everything possible to prevent its death, which comes about in It: Chapter Two. Creator Andy Muschietti has also been very vocal about the fact that he has a three-season arc planned for It: Welcome to Derry, which will span 27 years each season. Pennywise's motives reveal why Muschietti wants to tell this story backwards in time.
Nevertheless, it's been days since the IT: Welcome to Derry season finale premiered, and HBO Max has yet to renew the show for more seasons. The latest viewership numbers, as reported by Deadline, reveal that the season finale had 6.5 million viewers in the US in the first three days, which has now risen to 20 million viewers globally, among which 11.5 million are in the US alone.
These viewership numbers are a personal best for the HBO Max show, which had averaged its highest viewership in the penultimate episode. Consequently, the viewership average also places It: Welcome to Derry among the top three releases ever for the streamer, including The Last of Us and House of the Dragon.
The viewership count all but guarantees that creator Andy Muschietti will be allowed to bring to life his three-season arc for Pennywise in Derry. However, we await official confirmation of the renewal from HBO Max.
All eight episodes of It: Welcome to Derry Season 1 are now available to stream.
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