- Network: The CW
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 7, 2009
- Season #: 1
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- Summary: Contestants try to conquer their fears in the bid to win $66,666 in this Sam Raimi-produced show.
- Genre(s): Reality
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Jan 7, 2009
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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50As games go, this isn't a bad one. But unlike horror movies, the Fear doesn't feel real, and the show is nothing special.
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30Even nightvision lenses and up-the-nose video, however, can't create a real sense of jeopardy until the final challenge, when two finalists are "buried alive." At least that's semi-interesting, though until then 13 is pretty much a snooze--more scatter-brained than scary.
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3013 Fear Is Real, a fizzled effort at scaremongering, reveals just how badly reality television can go astray when the casting fails to be creative.