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  • Jul 19, 1998
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  • Jul 19, 1998
The Net

Summary This show is based on the box office film in 1998 'The Net'. After Angela Bennett a computer expert opens an unexpected email she is then thrown in to a world of terrorism, drugs, and money. The terrorists are called the praetorians, everything they do is build around the computer age. So the only way that Angela Bennett can fight back i...

  • USA
  • Jul 19, 1998
  • USA
  • Jul 19, 1998
The Net
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jul 19, 1998
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary This show is based on the box office film in 1998 'The Net'. After Angela Bennett a computer expert opens an unexpected email she is then thrown in to a world of terrorism, drugs, and money. The terrorists are called the praetorians, everything they do is build around the computer age. So the only way that Angela Bennett can fight back i...

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Episode 1 • Jul 19, 1998
Deleted
Angela accidentally finds her way into a secure database run by a crime syndicate called the Praetorians. As a result, they delete here identity from electronic existence. Angela is forced to go on the run.
Episode 2 • Jul 25, 1998
North by Northwestern
Episode 3 • Aug 1, 1998
Transplant
Episode 4 • Aug 8, 1998
Bulls and Bears
Episode 5 • Aug 15, 1998
Death of an Angel
Episode 6 • Aug 22, 1998
Kill the Buddha
While working as a barmaid, Angela befriends the owner and his wife. A witness to the bar owner's murder, Angela is torn between helping the widow bring her husband's killers to justice, and avoiding revealing her identity to the cops.
Episode 7 • Aug 29, 1998
Fireball
Angela's old friend Daniel has been hacking state lotteries. She learns the Praetorians are doing the same thing and she tries to stop Daniel from hacking the Mississippi lottery. In the process, more of her painful past is revealed.
Episode 8 • Oct 3, 1998
Jump Vector
River guide Angela helps programmers on holiday debug a system the Praetorians do not want fixed.
Episode 9 • Oct 10, 1998
Go Like You Know
Episode 10 • Oct 17, 1998
Harvest
A cult leader exposes Sorcerer. Angela meets the 16-year-old genius who changed her life.
Episode 11 • Nov 28, 1998
Diamonds Aren't Forever
Angela counters a Praetorian plan to bring down the world diamond market.
Episode 12 • Dec 5, 1998
Pandora's Box
Searching for a missing activist, Angela uncovers a scheme to dump nuclear waste in the ocean.
Episode 13 • Dec 12, 1998
Sample
The Praetorians plot to gain control of cutting-edge music when Angela and Jacob uncover a murder.
Episode 14 • Dec 20, 1998
Lucy's Life
The Praetorians set up a camera accessible via the Internet in a student's dorm in an attempt to trap Angela.
Episode 15 • Jan 9, 1999
Pay the Line
Jacob gets involved in on-line gambling scheme and needs Angela's help to pay his debts back. They wind up in Las Vegas in some high stakes gambling. Meanwhile, Trelawney is told he has to clean up the mess he left behind with Hearney.
Episode 16 • Jan 16, 1999
Lunatic Fringe
Angela is concerned about Jacob's obsession with an internet cult leader.
Episode 17 • Jan 23, 1999
In Dreams
A 14-year-old girl with a photographic memory holds the key to a Praetorian code.
Episode 18 • Jan 30, 1999
Y2K: Total System Failure
Angela has to try and stop the seemingly unstoppable Millennium Bug after a programmer is killed who was close to finding the solution.
Episode 19 • Mar 6, 1999
Zero
A sinister new drug leads Angela and Jacob to a showdown with the Praetorians. Angela becomes an FBI CIC agent.
Episode 20 • Mar 13, 1999
Last Man Standing
Agent Angela must put a stop to cyber cast wrestling matches fought to the death.
Episode 21 • Mar 20, 1999
Chem Lab
Angela and Jacob go to high school to find the young creators of a chemical weapon.
Episode 22 • Mar 27, 1999
Eye-see-you.com
Angela and Walter are in hot pursuit of a clever murderer who spies on his victims using the internet.

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75
Jun 2, 2014
The Net provides a whole lot more fun, thanks to the sprightly Brooke Langton, cast in Bullock's role as Angela Bennett, a free-lance computer fixer who one day receives a mystifying bit of electronic mail. [17 July 1998, p.E-12]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 2, 2014
It's superior to the movie. Both were produced by veteran Irwin Winkler. Brooke Langton, inheriting the role played in the film by Sandra Bullock, is more attractive and is able to project what Bullock lacks: warmth and vulnerability. [18 July 1998, p.E01]
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 2, 2014
It ain't bad by basic cable standards. That is to say, Langton is a poised female lead, sufficiently alluring to make you forget the fact that what's going on is all pretty implausible. [13 July 1998, p.34]
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 2, 2014
Ms. Langton seems to be a good enough actress, but she doesn't have the lovable vulnerability that Ms. Bullock, at her post-"Speed" peak, brought to the movie role. And Ms. Langton doesn't exude the sexy spookiness of David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, the character who is clearly Angela's male counterpart. The show itself is inoffensive, if a little obvious, and could go either way.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 2, 2014
While the series _ based on the 1995 Sandra Bullock film _ is more breathless than brainy, there's enough going on to make you want to stay tuned. [17 July 1998]
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
58
Jun 2, 2014
I like the idea of The Net as a series, with Angela living week to week in a Fugitive-type existence, trying to reclaim her identity and bring down the bad guys. If future scripts are clever enough, and viewers persevere past the first episode, this show could be a winner. [18 July 1998, p.7]
By Mike McDaniel FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 2, 2014
What is not so wonderful is the program itself, which takes the ill-received 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock as its starting point but doesn't seem to venture much further than that entertainment's idea: Put a gal with a fetching smile, a Gap wardrobe and a hacker's aptitude on the run for her life. [17 July 1998, p.3]
By Steve Johnson FULL REVIEW

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