Welcome to Derry has made a huge first impression already, and there’s plenty more to uncover across the eight-part HBO Max series.

In my Welcome to Derry review, I called the series “a welcome expansion of Stephen King’s huge novel,” and I also had the chance to talk to the creators about what’s coming up over the next few weeks.

I’m not alone in my excitement either, as Stephen King himself recently responded to the series, exclusively telling The Post. “I like Welcome to Derry a lot.

“There are plenty of horrors and lots of surreal visuals. There’s a supermarket scare that sticks in my mind, complete with pickle jars.”

The Muschietti siblings expanded on collaborating with King during their roundtable with us, saying, “We pitched him the idea for the show like 4 years ago. We talked to him about it, and he was like, ‘great, let’s do it.'”

“I think he was as curious about where this was going as us. And we told him that we had this strange desire to tell the story backwards. So we would go from 1962, being the first season, to 1935, and then to 1908.”

“There’s a very specific reason why we’re telling the story backwards. I can’t tell you yet, but there’s a reason why we’re going backwards, but he, without knowing why, he immediately said ‘that’s a good idea’.”

“From then on, I think that he was very open to exploration because even though the book is massive and it’s full of stories and characters, it’s all very fragmented and partially told.”

While more Welcome to Derry has not been greenlit yet, it does seem there’s scope for at least two more seasons. If it’s renewed, we’d get to see so much more, so I really am crossing my fingers for it to happen.

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Lucy is a long-time movie and television lover who is an approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes. She has written several reviews in her time, starting with a small self-ran blog called Lucy Goes to Hollywood before moving onto bigger websites such as What’s on TV and What to Watch, with TechRadar being her most recent venture. Her interests primarily lie within horror and thriller, loving nothing more than a chilling story that keeps her thinking moments after the credits have rolled. Many of these creepy tales can be found on the streaming services she covers regularly.

When she’s not scaring herself half to death with the various shows and movies she watches, she likes to unwind by playing video games on Easy Mode and has no shame in admitting she’s terrible at them. She also quotes The Simpsons religiously and has a Blinky the Fish tattoo, solidifying her position as a complete nerd.