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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

  • 1999
  • TV-14
  • FOX
  • 1999
  • TV-14
  • FOX

Harsh Realm

Season 1 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

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
28% Positive
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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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Production Company:
  • 20th Century Fox Television
  • Ten Thirteen Productions
Initial Release Date: Oct 8, 1999
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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Online Film & Television Association
• 4 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination

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