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  • Oct 8, 1999
Harsh Realm

Summary Created by the military, Harsh Realm explores a virtual reality world where anything is possible. After seeing the horrors of war in Sarajevo, Lt. Thomas Hobbes is finally ready to settle down with his fiance but the military has one last assignment for him. He must test out the newest in military combat training, a top secret computer ...

Created By: Chris Carter

  • FOX
  • Oct 8, 1999
  • FOX
  • Oct 8, 1999
Harsh Realm
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 8, 1999
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
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Summary Created by the military, Harsh Realm explores a virtual reality world where anything is possible. After seeing the horrors of war in Sarajevo, Lt. Thomas Hobbes is finally ready to settle down with his fiance but the military has one last assignment for him. He must test out the newest in military combat training, a top secret computer ...

Created By: Chris Carter

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 8, 1999 • 1 h
Pilot
Lt. Hobbes is sent by the military into their virtual reality world of "Harsh Realm" to assassinate rogue-soldier-turned-game's-dictator Omar Santiago, but Hobbes' rogue predecessor, Mike Pinocchio, warns Hobbes that the game is a trap.
Episode 2 • Oct 15, 1999
Leviathan
Bounty hunters capture Hobbes and Pinocchio. Sophie searches for the truth after being told Hobbes is dead.
Episode 3 • Oct 22, 1999
Inga Fossa
Hobbes and Pinocchio seek out an ID chip forger in hopes of accessing a portal used to bridge both worlds.
Episode 4 • Apr 14, 2000
Kein Ausgang
Hobbes and Pinocchio find themselves trapped in a looping World War II battle simulation, where the German and the US units are forever fighting over a small bridge in the Ardennes. They soon meet another real player stuck there.
Episode 5 • Apr 21, 2000
Reunion
As his real mother dies of cancer, Hobbes meets and nurses her dying counterpart in one of Santiago's forced labor camps in Harsh Realm. Pinocchio tries to come up with an escape plan.
Episode 6 • Apr 28, 2000
Three Percenters
Pursued by Santiago's Republican Guard, Hobbes and his friends encounter a strange pacifist group of deserters from Santiago's army whose compound is located near a beautiful lake that harbors a horrifying secret.
Episode 7 • May 5, 2000
Manus Domini
Hobbes finds himself trapped in a minefield with one of Santiago's soldiers. A holy order of female healers cares for Pinocchio after he loses his leg and becomes suicidal. Florence is captured by a bounty hunter who's after the healers.
Episode 8 • May 12, 2000
Cincinnati
Hobbes and Pinocchio attempt to stop Santiago as he attempts to kill the leader of the Native American uprising.
Episode 9 • May 19, 2000
Camera Obscura
Hobbes and Pinocchio get involved with a priest and two families feuding over a treasure of buried gold.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
28% Positive
7 Reviews
48% Mixed
12 Reviews
24% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
28% Positive
7 Reviews
48% Mixed
12 Reviews
24% Negative
6 Reviews

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90
Jun 9, 2015
One of the season's most promising new series.
By Howard Rosenberg FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 10, 2015
The early prognosis: bizarre, unsettling, perplexing, captivating. [6 Oct 1999, p.10]
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
58
Jun 27, 2013
Harsh Realm looks to be capably acted and artfully creepy, but I'm not sure I care to get involved in another dark, paranoid drama from Chris Carter.
By Terry Kelleher FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 9, 2015
Chris Carter wants to hijack your brain. Again. And after shuddering through tonight's premiere of Harsh Realm on Fox, you may be ready to surrender.
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50
Jun 9, 2015
Unfortunately, the pilot doesn't flesh out the premise, making the episode little more than an average "Outer Limits." With all the special-effects possibilities of a virtual realm, "Santiago City" looks like the set of "Combat" with a high-tech fence around it. [8 Oct 1999, p.S34]
By Mark A. Perigard FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 9, 2015
What's missing is a soul, a reason to care what happens to the characters. Carter also fails to give viewers enough critical insights to fully understand the complex premise.[8 Oct 1999, p.1E]
By Terry Jackson FULL REVIEW
10
Jun 9, 2015
An off-putting exercise in mayhem that might get by on its computer-generated looks as a TV movie. But as a series, it defies us to understand anything about it, much less care about it or anyone in it who moves on less than four legs.
By Michele Greppi FULL REVIEW

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