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IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 looks like it has a lot of potential to delve further into the origin of the unease and evil of Derry, continuing its momentum of investigating the intersections of fear, trauma, and the supernatural, decades before Stephen King's IT.
The series has cultivated a tense background of 1960s America, with its sense of societal division, buried secrets, and the lurking presence of Pennywise. The previous episode raised the stakes when Dick Hallorann's psychic gifts uncovered more sinister forces lurking beneath the town and where they came from. The strange disappearances and increasing paranoia suggested that something ancient is awakening in Derry.
In IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5, viewers can expect the town's curse to finally become a tangible and horrifying reality. The series might also delve into more psychologically based horror to investigate Derry's history even further and for the danger facing the children sensing Pennywise to mount. With alliances forming and dread spreading fast, Derry's history may finally be revealed.
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When does IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 come out?
IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 will release on HBO Max on Sunday, November 23, 2025. The episode will be available to stream at different times, depending on the viewer's region. Below is a table that outlines the exact release time for the major time zones:
How many episodes of IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 are left?
IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 is set to have a total of eight episodes, With four already released and episode 5 dropping this Sunday, only three episodes remain, with the season finale scheduled for December 14, 2025.
A brief recap of IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 4
IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 4 explores the evil entity's deeper origins beneath the town. Dick Halloran is tasked with using his psychic "Shine" ability to access the memories of Taniel, a member of the Shokopiwah tribe, who provides ancestral knowledge about the entity referred to as the Galloo.
Halloran visualizes a journey that reveals the Galloo, an ancient, shapeshifting extraterrestrial being, arrived on Earth after crash landing in a meteor. The tribe learned to coexist by "playing it safe" and establishing a space away from the entity's location and ultimately made a mystical dagger out of the meteorite to assist with containing it.
The entity's containment fell apart, however, when settlers refused to listen to the tribe's warnings and entered the Western Wood, allowing the entity to grow stronger. The legend also states that thirteen shards have been planted around Derry from the meteor to keep the entity contained. Halloran acquires important information from Taniel in the present time regarding the location of the shards.
The episode concludes by focusing on Neibolt Street, indicating the impending military presence may know where the entity is resting and may inadvertently release it.
Major events to expect from IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 (speculative)
IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 will continue to build directly on what we learned about the Galloos' connection to Neibolt Street. Now that the military has identified the location, the next episode the story may shift toward exploring, or perhaps unintentionally disturbing, the underground tunnels.
Viewers can expect the investigation to tighten, with Dick Hallorann’s psychic abilities becoming increasingly useful. The episode may also revisit the Shokopiwah legends connected to the meteor shards and the original sealing of the negative spirit.
Meanwhile, the psychological horror involving the children will likely intensify. Margie's violent moment foreshadows more overt manifestations of fear affecting young students like Lilly and Ronnie, demonstrating the entity's growing power.
IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 may delve into the military's role in accelerating the awakening of the Galloo, their actions being unknowingly innocent. As supernatural clues multiply and danger creeps near, the road to Neibolt Street might be the most frightening one yet.
IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 episode 5 premieres on HBO Max on Sunday, November 23, 2025.
