Harsh Realm

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 28, 1999
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 25
  3. Negative: 6 out of 25

Critic Reviews

  1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jun 9, 2015
    30
    The pilot exudes lots of flash (many things blow up, lots of gunfire) and little heart. The characters lack any spark of life and depth. [8 Oct 1999, p.40]
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  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Terry Jackson
    Jun 9, 2015
    30
    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]
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  3. Deseret News
    Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    Jun 9, 2015
    30
    A violent, confusing and ultimately unsatisfying journey to the dark side. [8 Oct 1999, p.C08]
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  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Jun 10, 2015
    20
    Carter's script and the direction of Daniel Sackheim (one of about 25 "executive producers") are riddled with hoary, snory contemporary cliches. Nothing amazes, nothing amuses, it all just goes bang and boom and clang in the night. This will be not just virtually but literally a better world if Harsh Realm has vamoosed by Christmas.
  6. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    Jun 9, 2015
    20
    The thing that's really creepy about Harsh Realm is how predictable, superfluous, and gratuitously murky and convoluted all this intrigue seems. [8 Oct 1999, p.B55]
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  7. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Michele Greppi
    Jun 9, 2015
    10
    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.

Awards & Rankings

17
#17 Best TV Season of 1999
11
#11 Most Discussed TV Season of 1999

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  1. XavierBlaq
    Jan 7, 2014
    7
    Since Harsh Realm only filmed nine episodes, it is hard to give the show a high score. After all, the main plot of the show seems verySince Harsh Realm only filmed nine episodes, it is hard to give the show a high score. After all, the main plot of the show seems very underdeveloped, as the makers were cut off without warning. However, I would argue that a version of this show that felt complete would rival the X-Files for being the greatest thing Chris Carter. Strangely enough, I think that almost makes the show worse, as it is had so much potential, that its incomplete state can be hard to watch if you think about it too much (which then ruins the philosophical points of the show). Still, it is worth watching as a science fiction thriller that should have been a classic.… Full Review »