So I watched the first episode and a half of S1 and was pretty lost with trying figure out who all the characters were and the story lines not being explained. Sissy Spacek (the original Carrie) is a main character but she wasn't Carrie (??), Bill Skarsgard (the new Pennywise) is in it but doesn't seem to be a human Pennywise...a little confusing. Then tried again a few weeks later and was glad I did. It gets going and I was picking up on a lot of references to many of King's stories. Even at the end of S1 I still was a little confused as to what I had watched...was the parallel universe episode a tribute to The Talisman with twinners?? Anyway, still a good watch, well acted and directed. THEN I started watching S2 which is a whole new season completely removed from S1 about the origins of Annie Wilkes and they must have listened to the critics that said S1 was slowly paced. By ep2 the season is in full action mode! I liked that it also keeps paying homage to the different characters and storyline events of most of his the books which I loved catching, I haven't read all of them but maybe 15 or so. I absolutely LOVE it!

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