IT: The 1990 Miniseries Ending Is Actually Better Than The Movies

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While the 2017 and 2019 IT movies improved on the 1990 miniseries in many ways, the latter ultimately has a more satisfying ending. Over the years, it's become a well-known refrain that Stephen King, as great and successful a writer as he is, has a real problem crafting satisfying endings. Many of his best stories either seem to end without much fanfare or get too convoluted and hard to follow. King's IT novel is an example of the latter, boasting a metaphysical conclusion that was always destined to be unfilmable in full.

IT has so far been adapted twice, first as a 1990 ABC miniseries and more recently as a pair of theatrical movies in 2017 and 2019. Both adaptations have their strengths and weaknesses, and both feature Pennywise the Clown performances by Tim Curry and Bill Skarsgard, respectively, that are great in their own ways. Both also took their own best shots at adapting King's rather wild ending for the screen and met with varying levels of success.

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Outside of Curry's Pennywise, though, most King devotees do seem to agree that the IT movies are overall closer to the spirit of the book, if only because they had more freedom to insert gory violence, foul language, and other adult content. Yet, IT Chapter Two is much less well regarded thanIT 2017. A big reason for that is its ending, which while suitably loud and visually stimulating, introduces many of its own flaws with its interpretation of King's prose. So many in fact that, for all its faults, the ending of IT 1990 is actually better.

While he hasn't always been a favorite of book critics, Stephen King is one of the highest-selling authors of all time, has millions of devoted