With the conclusion of It: Welcome to Derry, the series’s showrunners have opened up about the show’s ending during a recent interview, explaining the post-credits scene after Episode 8. The scene features cast members from the It movies and provides context for the show’s connection to the films. They also shared a glimpse of what’s ahead and explained how the storyline came together.
It: Welcome to Derry Episode 8 post-credits scene explained
In the post-credit scene for It: Welcome to Derry, viewers see Madeleine Stowe’s Ingrid Kersh as an old woman. It connects the show to the movies as Kersh arrives at the scene of the tragedy that leads Beverly Marsh to go after Pennywise. This scene takes place just before the events of the first It movie in 1988. The scene reveals Kersh to be the same old woman that It manifests to haunt a grown-up Marsh in It: Chapter Two. Sophia Lillis and Joan Gregson reprised their roles as young Beverly Marsh and Ingrid Kersh, respectively.
“No, we didn’t think of it until we were doing reshoots and pick-ups before the edit,” showrunner Andy Muschietti shared, when asked by Variety about the planning of the post-credit scene. “I had a notion of what the show was going to look like, but I still wanted a visual connection to the characters from the movies. I had an idea for a four-scene epilogue, but it was a little too ambitious, so we condensed it to one scene with just one of the Losers,” he added.
Further, speaking of Ingrid Kersh and Beverly Marsh’s appearance in the scene, he explained, “We wanted to show that those characters had met before, so in the flash-forward, we have Kersh still committed at Juniper Hill, the same place where Beverly’s mom was committed. It seemed like the perfect connection.”
Explaining the scene in his own words, Jason Fuchs said, “What I love about that scene is that it does change your understanding of Beverly’s encounter with It’s manifestation of Mrs. Kersh in It: Chapter Two. I was lucky enough to work on that scene and, at the time, I imagined that It was taking the guise of Pennywise’s daughter in order to prey on Beverly’s traumatic relationship with her own father. It did not, then, occur to me that Beverly Marsh had ever met the real Mrs. Kersh. But now, you go back and rewatch that scene and you realize It was up to something else.”
Originally reported by Elton Fernandes on ComingSoon.
