Late last year, Stephen King opened up to The New York Times about the myriad basic cable miniseries adaptations bearing his name, the likes of which were near-inescapable in the ‘90s and ‘00s. “Tim Curry made a great Pennywise,” he said of Tommy Lee Wallace’s It. “It felt kind of cheap and thrown together,” King groused about John Power’s The Tommyknockers.
His favorite of the bunch? Craig R. Baxley’s Storm of the Century, an original tale about a demon whose visit to a remote Maine island coincides with the titular snowstorm. “They did a terrific job,” he said, highlighting Colm Feore’s chilling turn as the otherworldly Linoge.
Do the Losers feel the same? Wrapped in scarves, they’ve departed for Little Tall Island—also the setting of King’s Dolores Claiborne—to unpack the twisty moral quandary at the center of this underloved three-part series. Along the way, Losers Randall Colburn, Justin Gerber, Mac Gerber, and Ana Marie Cox debate the story’s ambiguities, that bummer of an ending, and an ensemble that just might rank among King’s best.
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