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Chris Carter’s Harsh Realm (1999) – Starring Scott Bairstow & Terry O’Quinn – Series Trailer
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[Synopsis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Realm#Setting):
> Harsh Realm is a virtual reality game created by the U. S. Army, programmed to minutely replicate the real world for training simulations. In the world of Harsh Realm, a small nuclear bomb is detonated in the program’s version of New York City, killing four million people and thrusting its participants into a post-apocalyptic disaster scenario.
> Lieutenant Tom Hobbes (Scott Bairstow) is unknowingly thrust into this world by his superiors with one mission: to kill “General” Omar Santiago (Terry O’Quinn). Along the way, he meets fellow soldiers sent into the game and alternate versions of people he knows in the real world.
Fox cancelled this show after just one short season (9 episodes), would love to see a HR revival one day with a bigger budget.
I watched precisely one episode of this show and it quite literally sucked. Another brilliant Chris Carter production.
Good show. I enjoyed it more and more after a few episodes. Terry O’Quinn was great and I do agree with the comment about the lead, they could have casted someone better
I loved that show
D B Sweeney!
I have the box set on DVD.
This show introduced me to stock soundbytes because holy fuck did it keep using one of those thriller spooky ones. That sound has appeared in multiple media since like an older version of that hells kitchen waterphone. I will never forget it till I die.
(Lower whoosh, minor third higher whoosh, finally compressed brassy sound)
Terry O’Quinn was kind of a fixture of Chris Carter’s productions in the 90s.
* He had two different guest spots on “The X-Files” tv show.
* He was in the “X-Files” movie (he played Special Agent Kablooey, as I call him).
* He was all over “Millennium” playing Peter Watts, Frank’s partner in the Millennium Group who morphed into the series main antagonist before redeeming himself in the final couple episodes)
* And then he was a regular on Harsh Realm playing a badass General
This is all before he got his “breakout” part on *Lost*. So say what you want about Chris Carter, the guy knew talent when he saw it.
This was so 1999 it hurts.
Harsh Realm was a great show, but fell to the all too typical cliffhanger cancellation.