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Positive:
7
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Critic Reviews
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
A neatly conceived show that borrows from sources like Joseph Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness" and George Orwell's "1984." The plot is hard to summarize thoroughly - you'd need an instruction manual for that - but it unfolds easily on screen. [8 Oct 1999, p.D12]
Jun 10, 2015
Season 1 Review:
In its present ragged state, Harsh Realm is a jumble of great promise and great weaknesses - every bit as annoying as it is amazing. At its best, the series is stylish and clever. At its worst, well, things have a tendency to get pretty heavy-handed and obvious. [7 Oct 1999, p.1E]
Jun 10, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Harsh Realm plays like a bald reworking of "The Matrix", complete
with allusions to a coming savior, but without that film's exciting
special effects or logical, unifying conceit. [8 Oct 1999, p.13E]
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
"Sleepwalkers," a short-lived NBC series from two seasons back, also asked viewers to care about characters who only dreamed that they were in peril. The sleepwalkers only drew a yawn from viewers, and it turned out that NBC programmers who thought the audience might actually care about such a situation were the ones who believed in fantasy. Fox may be repeating the delusion. [8 Oct 1999, p.E-10]
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Word of caution: The glum, occasionally promising Harsh Realm won't be for everyone. It's violent and often relentlessly bleak. [8 Oct 1999, p.1D]
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The overall effect is dispiriting and off-putting. Maybe Mr. Carter knows where he's going with all this. It's doubtful, however, that many viewers will have the will to go with him. [8 Oct 1999, p.1C]
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
With time and understanding, maybe his Realm will prove a solid successor to "The X-Files," his earlier hit, but that's assuming that more than Carter's cultish core fans stick around long enough to make sense of this elaborate war game inside a super-secret government virtual-reality setup called Harsh Realm. [8 Oct 1999, p.55]
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
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]
Jun 9, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Having now seen it, I don't think I want to go there. [8 Oct 1999, p.H1]
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