Hello everyone, welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week I am here to talk about what I find to be an overlooked entry in the televised works of stephen king 1999's um the storm of the century

now uh what you're listening to right now is an updated uh um new recording of a review that that i

have done on it.

Now, this was a very, very fun moment for me as part of this podcast.

Being able to revisit Storm of the Century was an absolute joy

because I have nothing but fond memories of Storm of the Century when it first aired back in the 90s,

as I will get into in this podcast. I'll talk about wings. I'll talk about Tim Daley,

Joe Hackett, and I'll talk about just being able to watch this and, you know, having grown up in New England,

seeing this blizzard, this snowstorm reflected, it felt very, very truthful.

But more importantly, what I want to really express and my big takeaway from this TV miniseries is, is I really wish that it had been an actual book instead of a TV miniseries first.

You can go out and buy the script, and it was published in script form, which is great.

But I think that we would have had a real Stephen King classic on our hands if it had been

published traditionally because it has all of the hallmarks of the things that we love about Stephen King.

It has a very well-realized small town community full of distinct, memorable characters who all

bounce off of each other due to their character traits and they're differing personalities

and they're all thrust into a crisis that they have to work together in order to overcome.

But it is a microcosm of society at large and the different beliefs and the different fears and the different idiosyncrasies

and the different relationships are not actually going to put people, bring people together,

but they're going to pit people apart. And in the center of this, you have what really would

have been had he first been depicted on the page, I believe, in all-time Stephen King

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