IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 3 — Release Date, Global Watch Times, and What’s Lurking Next
After two hair-raising entries, IT: Welcome to Derry tightens its grip on reality as Season 1 creeps into episode 3—promising bigger scares, fresh clues, and a deeper descent into the town’s cursed origins.
We are two episodes into IT: Welcome to Derry, and the show is already doing that thing where it crawls under your skin and sets up camp. Episode 3 is next up, and if you are trying to keep your weekend horror plans straight, here is what matters and why you should probably leave a light on.
Episode 3: When and where to watch
Episode 3 is titled 'Now You See It' and drops on November 9. You can watch it on HBO and HBO Max.
Release times by region: United States at 9 p.m. ET; Brazil at 10 p.m. BRT; United Kingdom at 2 a.m. GMT; Central Europe at 3 a.m. CEST; Eastern Europe at 4 a.m. EEST; India at 6:30 a.m. IST; Australia at 11 a.m. AEDT; New Zealand at 1 p.m. NZDT.
Previously in Derry (aka how we got here)
Episode 2 took a hard left into the 1930s with a nasty revelation: after an intense massacre and police scrutiny, the story zeroed in on Hank Grogan and Lilly Bainbridge and turned up a car from the era packed with skeletons. Yes, a whole car. Full of bones. Cheery stuff.
What Episode 3 is setting up
'Now You See It' looks ready to push deeper into the townwide panic. There is also a thread to watch involving a possible military angle connected to Major Leroy Hanlon. And that 1930s car? It sure feels like the show is positioning it as a key into a bigger Pennywise subplot, the kind that hints at his return and the early sparks of his next reign of terror.
The road ahead
- Nov 9: Episode 3 — 'Now You See It'
- Nov 16: Episode 4 — 'The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet's Function'
- Nov 23: Episode 5 — 'Neibolt Street'
- Nov 30: Episode 6 — Title TBA
- Dec 7: Episode 7 — Title TBA
- Dec 14: Episode 8 — Title TBA
The setup (for anyone jumping in late)
IT: Welcome to Derry is a prequel to the movies, spun out of Stephen King’s novels. The tone is very much bleak, pulpy, and mean in the way Derry demands, and the cast is selling the dread. Two episodes in, the show is leaning hard into its period creepshow vibe, and Episode 3 looks like it is about to widen the lens on how this town breaks — and who is quietly nudging it along.
IT: Welcome to Derry is streaming on HBO and HBO Max.