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Madeline Stowe plays Ms. Kersh [who you may recall from the IT movie as the old woman who lives in Bev's old home and is essentially PW in disguise but has photos of Bob Gray on her wall as her father], who is the real life daughter of the original Bob Gray Pennywise the Clown who the cosmic entity/dealights ate and assumed his identity after to eat the kids becoming Pennywise forever more...and the original plan for the show was going to be that Ingrid (Stowe) Kersh was hellbent on seeing her father again after he was "taken" from her in 1908 (Stowe is 67, but looks like she drank from a magic fountain), and she thinks Pennyise is him, but with a dark side that comes out like a werewolf that she can fix....so she's been terrorizing the kids of the town to "bring him out" so she can see her father again...

So this episode brings that fact into the open instead of it being a finale moment, becuase of course the Writers Strike pushed production of the show long enough that Bill Skarsgaard became available again so the show was rewritten to include Pennywise directly, so Ms. Kersh had to be finagled into a sort of "bring the children to him" character like Henry Bowers in the original films...and it works...but the early episodes feel a little more off canter as a result of the retooling...so this episode is clearly where everything starts firing on all cylinders again (not saying I disliked the earlier eps, I really loved them, but this one is on another level).

Richie and Marge were great here, and I'm starting to think Richie is going to bite it and Marge is Richie Tozier's mom Maggie in the IT movies and name her son after him. But time will tell. Speaking of Marge, she's had a 180 from the last few weeks and becomes VERY likeable here.

The Black Spot is about to kick off next week. If I had two nickels for every time weird supernatural shit happed in a Juke Joint this year, I'd have two nickels but it's weird that it happened twice.

I do like the subtle nods that Pennywise affects the adult population and fuels whatever hatred or negativity is there. Like will's dad smacking him is super out of character, but of course it is....this is Derry and he just had a direct confrontation with Pennywise in the sewers.

The only people with plot armor that we know of are Will (Mike's father), Leeroy, and of course ya boy Dick Halloran (since he has a date with becoming the cook in the Overlook Hotel and meeting a young boy with the Shining).