Emily Magee's Blog

This TV show started in 1994 and lasted for 8 years. 10 seasons of straight greatness and it sadly is being removed from the platform used most to watch it: Netflix. This show has been around for 25 years and it has wowed many generations. Teenagers today, just like me are obsessed with the show and amazed at how it can still make us all laugh.

It is astonishing how a show my parents watched is a show I now watch and one that we can enjoy together. The humor is perfect as it isn’t too modern or too old for me to understand. With this show being on reruns for 15 years it has made over $1 million dollars a year since it aired. And each cast member makes around $20 million dollars a year just from reruns.

My favorite character, Rachel Green, is portrayed by Jenifer Aniston. This show really blasted off her career and she is by far the most successful cast member in the show. She has been in countless movies and TV shows and is even launching a new series “The Morning Show,” which she stars in. 

The show takes place in Manhattan, New York but is actually filmed in Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles California. In New York, there is a Coffee Shop called Central Perk that is dedicated to friends but unfortunately does not look like the set on the inside. The only true set is still set up for tour at Warner Bros in Los Angeles. 

The show had great reviews and became very popular while it was airing. This caused the ratings and amount of views to shoot high, making the actors the highest-paid actors during that time. It has been fun to see some of the Characters reunite in their later years and see what they look like today. Although they are much older, most still get recognized on the streets for their role in friends and are often called by their characters’ names.

To me, the most interesting part about the show is that you can watch the shows in order and they have a sequence to them but that isn’t the main focus. It’s fun to watch them in order but you will never be confused if you pop in and watch a random one. This isn’t very popular in showbiz today unless it is a children’s show. I like connecting the pieces and its soo good I’ve watched the whole series 3 times. 

Above all, it is said that this show is leaving Netflix. This means that people will have to wait for reruns or find it on a different platform. In fact, the show was supposed to be taken off in 2019 but due to outrage and persuasion from fans, Netflix agreed to keep it on for the entire next year. This doesn’t seem to be the case for this upcoming year, but who knows?

Going into this movie I was very nervous that it would waste 3 hours of my life. Yes, three hours. I went to the movie theater once before expecting to go in and watch this movie, since it was such a nice day outside I decided against it. But after watching it for real, I realized that it really would have been worth IT.

For reference, the first IT movie is about 7 young friends in Derry, Maine. Georgie a younger sibling to Bill (One of the seven friends), is outside to play on a rainy day as his paper sailboat accidentally flows into a drain. Georgie then goes to the sewer grate to get his boat, then pennywise, the bloodthirsty clown, drag Georgie into the drain. The 7 friends, terrified, are on a mission to find Georgie and finish off Pennywise. Pennywise comes out every 27 years and is a shapeshifting clown, the only way to defeat this monster is to face your own fears.

The humor mixed with terror is exactly what calms you and keeps you on the edge of your seat at the same time. Not only does this movie have pop-outs but it also has disgusting creatures that freak the characters out just as much as you in your movie seat. 

The main reason this movie excites me so much is because it is kind of a puzzle. IT chapter 2 is placed 27 years in the future, the next coming of pennywise. It is always fun to piece together parts of the first movie to the second. The 7 friends are called back to Derry, Maine but only 6 make it. Pennywise takes another kid and the 6 go on their second mission to defeat Pennywise. 

The dinner scene, where the 6 friends are back together 27 years later, is interesting because at the end they all open their fortune cookies and it reveals a saying from Pennywise that escalates the scene. It really freaked me out and amplified the rest of the movie.

Overall, I would rate this movie an 8 out of 10. There was never a moment when I was bored. I didn’t even get up for a free refill of my popcorn because I didn’t want to miss anything. It was very well written and it pieced together both movies perfectly, providing flashbacks as well so that the viewer was never confused. The reason I wouldn’t give it a 10 out of 10 is for the same reason Jeffrey M. Anderson from Common sense media didn’t want to, “This nearly three-hour sequel has well-rounded, appealing characters and even some laughs, but it lacks the nerve-rattling scares and appealing simplicity of its 2017 predecessor.” Although it was still scary, IT chapter 1 was much more terrifying.

On the other hand, the goofy jokes they make, make you feel like you are really a part of the movie and as a result, makes it scarier. I would recommend this movie to anyone who is a fan of horror movies and can handle creepy graphic content. I’m very happy that I went to see this movie and that it exceeded my expectations.