Stranger Things’ Forgotten Pennywise Connection in IT: Welcome to Derry

The HBO Max series has enjoyed a successful first season, earning an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming one of the platform’s most popular shows this year. It’s a spin-off of the 2017 and 2019 films, which tell the story of unsettling events in Derry before the Losers’ Club faced Pennywise – events also detailed in Stephen King’s 1986 novel. While fans were revisiting earlier seasons of Stranger Things in anticipation of the new season, a significant connection between the two shows might have been overlooked, even by devoted Stephen King readers.








