Hey, it’s October! So let’s chat about Pennywise the Dancing Clown for a little while! NYC educator and artist Sybille Bruun joins the podcast to discuss Stephen King’s It, a lengthy classic about a bunch of loser kids, a haunted small town and an immortal clown demon from space! We’re talking about the book and both adaptations, so we’re getting into it all. Curry vs Skarsgard! The book’s difficult to adapt structure! The angry political nihilism of King’s premise! The cultural semiotics of the 1950s vs the 1980s! The batshit ending! I’ve contended for years that It has a genuinely brilliant metaphorical premise, and in this episode, we dig in to why.
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