It Welcome to Derry: A Chilling Start to a Mysterious Saga

Finally, one of the most anticipated series of 2025, It Welcome to Derry, has been released on Jio Hotstar. It will have a total of eight episodes. For now, one episode has been released, which is available in Hindi. Apart from Hindi, it has only been released in English. So, you will have to make do with these two languages.

If you have watched the It movie, there is a clown, a joker, who is quite dangerous. In both those movies, our heroes are trying to escape from it. In this series, we will be told where that joker actually came from. What I initially expected from this series is not what I found in it. Even in the trailer, things have been hidden very well. I mean, you can’t figure out much from it. This seemed like a very interesting series to me. It felt very different.

The way things were concealed in the trailer made it hard for me to understand what exactly is happening here and why it’s happening. What’s going on in the entire town? But now, after watching the first episode, some things are starting to make sense, like, okay, these things could happen here.

The story is set in a town named Derry. An officer arrives there, who is Black. At that time, there is a lot of racism against Black people, which is why he is going to face a lot of difficulties in this town. We had already seen this in the trailer. But now it feels like things are going to be much bigger than that.

On the other hand, there are some kids who are looking for their friend, who has been missing for a year. But that friend disappeared under such strange circumstances. A scene in the series shows how he disappeared. After watching it, you won’t believe what happened here. We came to see the clown, the joker, but what exactly is happening here?

This series is not just about a clown. It will definitely get there in the end. But before that, the series presents so many things in front of us that I really liked its story. I won’t say much more because that would lead to spoilers. But I will say this: it’s a must-watch series. Do watch it.

I really liked the first episode. So many subplots have been added to it. There are so many characters. We are getting more than what we expected when we came to watch it. You cannot watch this series with your family. There’s a scene in the beginning, with a car. There’s a scene there that you definitely cannot watch with family. It has adult content, nudity too. Along with that, it’s full of gore.

Just like you saw in the It movie, you’ll see gore here too. But things have gotten a bit bigger. The world-building has expanded, so it’s going to be a lot of fun. I really liked everyone’s acting. The production budget is very good. I haven’t noticed any shortcomings in the production budget so far. I think there won’t be any issues with the production budget moving forward either. Nor will there be any issues with the acting, because everyone is performing so well in the beginning.

I really liked the cinematography of this series. It feels like we are watching a movie or series from the 1950s or 1960s. In every aspect, this is a very good series. Its first episode definitely deserves a 10 out of 10. I won’t give the entire series a 10 out of 10. But we can give it to this one episode because it was really good.

You can start watching this series in Hindi and English. I can’t guarantee how it will go moving forward. But for now, you can definitely watch this series. I will give the series a complete rating once all the episodes are released. One episode will be released every week.