- Audience-Alienating Premise: While the series has been very well received regarding the plot of Lilly Bainbridge and Ronnie Grogoan, with universal praise for Clara Stack and Amanda Christine's acting, the premise of the US military attempting to capture Pennywise to use him as a weapon to win the Cold War has received utter derision as something too ridiculous to take seriously, wholly and completely contrary to the most basic functions of how IT remains secret in Derry. There is also little love for the use of Dick Halloran, with many considering it a cheap way to bind in the broader Stephen King universe as opposed to allowing the show to stand on its own.
- He's Just Hiding: Some fans hope that Phil and/or Susie might have just been wounded and dragged off to the sewers (admittedly itself a risky proposition for long-term survival) at the end of the pilot.
- Just Here for Godzilla: Many fans said they were interested in the series because of Bill Skarsgård reprising Pennywise after 6 years.
- Memetic Mutation: Jokes about Derry Girls being part of this setting had naturally always been around, but this show's title ramped them up even more.
- Narm Charm: Matty sucking on a pacifier is unavoidably silly-looking, but also instantly gets across how psychologically damaged he is from growing up in Derry. Plus it feels like exactly the kind of weird random character tic that Stephen King himself would come up with.
- One-Scene Wonder: The vicious parody of a wholesome nuclear family that Pennywise forms to attack Matty in the opening scene were an instant hit, with every actor perfectly ramping up the creepiness as the scene goes on and getting some comparisons to the opening of Scream as a sequence that could easily be a standalone short film.
- Shocking Moments: At the end of the first episode, the apparent new version of the Losers Club that has been assembled across the whole hour are almost all killed by Pennywise.
- Visual Effects of Awesome:
- Matty being put inside a scene from The Music Man is entirely convincing, going the extra mile by making him perfectly match the original scene's film stock and lighting.
- The monster in the pickle jars in Episode 2 feels uncomfortably present for a CGI creature in full lighting.
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