IT: Welcome to Derry opens its finale by flipping the rules of fear on their head, and the last episode makes one thing very clear. Pennywise does not see time the way humans do.

The HBO Max series is a prequel to the horror film, but fans have been left wondering whether Pennywise the Clown's abilities extend to being able to see into the future

Welcome to Derry? The finale episode, titled “Winter Fire,” centers on General Shaw, who is determined to lead with his mission as dense fog covers the town. The Hanlons, Rose, Dick, and the children must together save Derry.

This narrative pivot strongly suggests that the upcoming second season of IT: Welcome to Derry, set in 1935, and the third season, set in 1908, will feature the creature attempting to prune the timeline to secure its own survival.

It: Welcome to Derry' EPs Andy and Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs on Season 1's finale, Pennywise's future, the post-credits flash-forward cameo.

The final episode sees Lily, Marge, and Ronnie following Pennywise’s trail of blood, while the adults hatch their own plans to defeat the monstrous force

Spoilers follow for IT: Welcome to Derry Episodes 1-7.

IT: Welcome to Derry Episode 7 “The Black Spot” is yet another hour of non-stop horror from the HBO show, featuring a horrific race massacre, the tragic tale of the real Pennywise the Dancing Clown ( Bill Skarsgård ), and the full, awful power of the Deadlights.

Bill Skarsgård's bloodied Pennywise with a meat cleaver in IT: Welcome to Derry Image via HBO Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for the IT: Welcome to Derry finale. After six weeks of shocks,

But the show chose to depict Pennywise's exploitation of this already horrific event in a much different way than King in his original novel. In Stephen King's "It," the Black Spot fire is recalled during a flashback interlude wherein Mike Hanlon's father,

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the finale of HBO’s IT: Welcome to Derry. All is quiet in Derry, Maine, after the town endured one last massacre at the hands of IT in the finale of HBO’s prequel series Welcome to Derry.