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It really does feel like a King novel come to life, down to the folksy characters referring to each other by their full names with hilarious frequency. Though it’s a bit dated, as you’d expect a 1999 ABC miniseries to be, it also boasts engaged and engaging performances, especially from Colm Feore, who plays the mercurial Linoge. What they’re not prepared for is the sudden appearance of a dark stranger, Andre Linoge, who soon takes the townspeople under his mystical thrall one by one, armed with impossible knowledge and unspeakable ultimatums. Taking place in, you guessed it, MAINE, Storm of the Century centers on an island community as they’re preparing to weather a blizzard. Having watched it, Flanagan saying it was an “influence” on Midnight Mass is the understatement of the century.
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The series - which King calls his television project that he’s written - is now streaming for the first time. Even though I consider myself a pretty big King fan (that comes part and parcel with growing up in New England), I’d never heard of it. When Midnight Mass released on Netflix, Mike Flanagan cited a largely-forgotten ABC miniseries written by Stephen King as one of its primary influences: Storm of the Century. I’m just finishing up my 25th Stephen King novel, Revival. Also? Sometimes we get to shows and movies late, too! So you may even catch a couple older favorites on the list as you dig in! Storm of the CenturyĪ horror fanatic since watching The Blair Witch Project at far too young an age. Some of it will be mainstream! Other times? Maybe you haven’t even heard of it! The world is our oyster. We just love entertainment, and we want to chill out and chat about the art we loved this month. This isn’t a roundup of the website’s top rated film and television, or any other kind of aggregate. …Ok, so the IGN team is here to talk about our favorite stuff! But maybe you like the same stuff we like. It can feel pretty impossible to navigate that sometimes, but the IGN team is here to help make sense of it all. DOZENS!), or in theaters, there is an absolute waterfall of art being dropped on us all at any given second. Whether it’s streaming, on cable (dozens of us still have it. It’s possible you may not have noticed but, uh… there are so many things to watch.
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