Wednesday, May 26, 1999
Tangina wrote:
HARSH REALM - new Fox series from Chris "X-Files" Carter, will air Fridays at 9 (in the now cancelled Millenium time slot).

Think of this show as a Matrix with more possibilities. It has a very similar set-up. Our hero is recruited from the army to take part in a virtual reality battle simulator, only once he gets in, he learns that there is no way out.

The army has placed him, like thousands before him, into the "game" in order to find and kill Santiago, our "bad guy", who has taken over the game and can enter and leave at will.

Inside the game, he partners up with Pinnochio, played by DB Sweeney, a Han Solo type who is his guide, teaching him the rules of the game as he goes. Suffice it to say that all may not be as it seems, and - from the pilot anyway - it's entirely possible that the world we thought at first was real was also VR.

Chris Carter really knows how to spin this stuff. And, while I'm on the subject of Chris Carter...