“We know where it’s going” - It: Welcome to Derry star Chris Chalk teases what to expect from the remaining episodes

If you thought It: Welcome to Derry was already scaring us at maximum dread, Chris Chalk would like you to reconsider your life choices! After episode five blew open the vault inside Dick Hallorann’s mind and unleashed Pennywise in form, Chalk says the remaining three episodes are detonating.

And he knows fans are spiraling. So he reminds us:

“We know where it’s going.”

The future chef of the Overlook Hotel (and unofficial Shining University professor) has seen the It films, and so have we. What happens now?

“How can you beat Pennywise, guys? Is that even possible for this group of ragtag goofballs? We’ll see.”

Just don't get too comfortable while watching It: Welcome to Derry.

Dick Hallorann is falling apart on It: Welcome to Derry

By now, Chalk’s younger Hallorann has become one of the most tormented characters in the Stephen King universe. He’s code-switching his way through 1960s military politics while bearing the weight of his trauma.

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Episode five (literally) cracked him open as Pennywise exposed the “box” locked in his psyche. It was filled with every repressed nightmare and generational horror he never wanted to revisit. Chalk says this is the moment that It: Welcome to Derry shifts from a kids' mystery to a psychological thriller.

He told The Hollywood Reporter:

“Everything that has happened before this moment is so tiny in comparison to that box now being open.”

So once that box opens, Dick is also battling himself.

We have to remember that the series has built toward this meltdown with the alliance with Major Leroy Hanlon and how he wants to escape the Army and Derry entirely. But now Pennywise has access to his deepest fears. While Hallorann is the most equipped to fight, he is also the one most likely to break.

Pennywise is here, and It: Welcome to Derry doesn't show us much hope either

Bill Skarsgård’s long-awaited reappearance as Pennywise finally hit the series. And while audiences have been bracing for the moment, Chalk suggests the other characters never even stood a chance. He says that Dick Hallorann is sliding into chaos. Dick is doomed from the start, as we know the franchise.

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As Chalk puts it, the final episodes are going to peel back whatever illusion of control the characters thought they had. For those already familiar with the fate of Derry (and the It universe), know that Pennywise is inevitable.

So, Welcome to Derry isn’t about being able to stop Pennywise. The kids are just going to survive long enough to understand how impossible that is.

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It: Welcome to Derry airs weekly on HBO and is available on Max.

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