TV Mini Series · 1999 · TV Mini Series · 1990s
Storm of the Century
Scored from 119 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1990s (142 peers).
Summary
A massive blizzard traps the residents of Little Tall Island, Maine, just as a mysterious stranger named Andre Linoge arrives and is locked up after committing a brutal murder. Linoge demonstrates uncanny knowledge of the townspeople's darkest secrets and reveals he wants just one thing from the community, forcing the islanders to face an impossible moral choice. Written by Stephen King, the miniseries follows constable Mike Anderson as he confronts the supernatural threat.
Storm of the Century (1999) is a miniseries IMDb files under the drama, fantasy and horror genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 141 1990s miniseries, not against the whole corpus. The calibrated figure is built from 119 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 123 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 7 of whom clear the calibration test.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Storm of the Century lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Mini Series · 1990s (142 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 119.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 1990s
