"It was a game we called "Bad Dad, Great Dad." It was simple: Name a positive male role model who, by all accounts, is a great father and call him a "bad" dad. Why? No reason at all. In response, someone else names a terrible guywar criminals, serial killers, true crime subjectsand comes up with why they are, in fact, a "great dad." In lieu of TikTok, this is how we dumbass 19-year-olds entertained ourselves."
"So imagine my surprise after all these years to see IT: Welcome to Derry playing its own version of "Bad Dad, Great Dad." In episode 6, "In the Name of the Father," patriarchs come in all shapes and sizes: loving ones who hug, loving ones who hurt, and loving ones who feed on young children. You know, normal dad stuff."
"Fresh from the nightmare in the sewers, the Losers Club deals with fathers as they grow closer to one another. Meanwhile, the world is growing vicious. A hate mob in pursuit of vigilante justice is out on the streets, and a revelation about Pennywiseand the family he left behinddoubles as a betrayal for one Loser specifically. By next week, a key piece of backstory from Stephen King's original novel may unfold before our eyes."
College friends invented a morbid game called 'Bad Dad, Great Dad' to cope with stress. Episode 6, 'In the Name of the Father,' presents fathers who hug, hurt, or feed on children. The Losers Club emerges from the Neibolt House sewers and confronts paternal dynamics while bonding. Major Hanlon lectures Will for disobedience. A white vigilante hate mob targets a Black bar, escalating town violence. A revelation about Pennywise and the family he left behind feels like a personal betrayal to one Loser. A 1935 black-and-white prologue foreshadows deeper origins. Rising chaos supplies Pennywise with the vile atmosphere he needs.
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