"Ultra Violet" TV mini series... (5)

Anybody a fan of
"Ultra Violet" TV mini series...???

The only thing wrong with it was that 6, 1-hour episodes were just not enough! (It has a good ending...but...If only if didn't end!)

It is out in a 2-dvd box set,
(amazing, subtle packaging/cover! Vague photos of the cast's faces...with "They look like us, they act like us" textured, repeated across the cover over and over)
with 4 of the 5 or 6 main cast members on the cover...
(also released in the states, but the cover puts the lead-male and a female character on the cover, in an attempt to make it look more like 'Mulder & Scully'...misleading as there were 4 main members of the UV team...not 2).

Great acting, atmos, and story/stories. The overall plot development was great, and the focus on individual stories for each episode was top-notch, giving a different twist to each episode.


They could do a lot worse than to get the original cast & director together again for a sequel mini-series.
("Ultra Violet: Resvrrection"...?)

Some cool stuff about it was that the word "Vampire" was never used in the show. Only referred to as "Code 5" ('Code V'; 5= 'V', and V for vampire...but also references 'Violet'..)

Bite marks were invisible, but could be scanned using "UV" lights...hence the name "Ultra Violet"...
'Ultra Violet' suggests 'deep, dark purple'...a vampy colour, and the color of the DVD box set. Dark Purple.

If you've seen "This Life" the actor who played "Miles" in "This Life" is the lead agent/cop in "Ultra Violet".

It's a gripping, reality based drama, about a secret government/police force who deal with the threat of the underground vampire organisation.

You ache for more when each chapter/episode ends.

When you get to the sixth, final episode and it ends, it's like...
"What? There isn't going to be any more....???"


If you like "Blade" and "Near Dark"...it's cool, very 'reality'; just more of a drama-based mini series.

A modern retelling of the vampire myth, Ultraviolet revolves around a government-funded paramilitary organisation with connections to the Roman Catholic Church fighting a secret war against a worldwide vampire conspiracy.

The main character, Detective Sergeant Michael Colefield, played by Davenport, is a police detective who, when his best friend Jack is killed, encounters agents of this organisation. In this first encounter they pose as officers of CIB investigating possible corruption on the part of Mike's friend. He is initially unsure of who to trust, Jack accusing his new allies of being a "death squad": the modern version of the Inquisition; the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. However, he soon finds that his old friend has been coopted into the vampire conspiracy and their plans to control the destiny of mankind.

A hallmark of the series are the scientific methods used by the organisation as they investigate a variety of cases. In this respect, as in others, the series owes a debt to The X-Files, whose paranormal investigators go about their investigations with the help of modern investigative and scientific methods. In Ultraviolet these methods allow the vampire hunters to develop modern weaponry to fend off their foes - instead of stakes, automatic handguns with carbon bullets and specialised sights that use video cameras to differentiate between vampires and humans (vampires are invisible to recording devices); instead of wreaths of garlic, gas grenades containing concentrated allicin; instead of sunlight, lamps emitting ultraviolet light. The characters note that the traditional idea of religious symbols repelling the creatures is "a matter of faith... on both sides".

To maintain a more modern and realistic feel the word "vampire" is never spoken in the series; the members of the organisation avoid the word, perhaps because of its superstitious connotations. The term "Code Five" is often substituted (a visual use of the Roman numeral V is the closest the series gets to citing the word "vampire"), as is the slang "leech".

(found the above text somewhere).

(thanks to everyone emailing me about this string; go on and post here, don't be so shy!)

found this text somewhere:

In the six-part British "vampire-slaying" mini-series Ultraviolet we discover that UV light is used (both in surgery and via high-tech weaponry) to identify people who have been infected with a disease labelled "Code 5". It's transmitted via a bite to the neck, but at no point in the series is the word "vampire" used. Instead, in the second episode ("In Nomine Patris") the nickname "Leech" is introduced.

We learn that it was this disease, these "Leeches", that were responsible for the Fire of London, and that one in 20 people are already infected.

In the opening episode, policeman Michael Colefield (Jack Davenport) is recruited into the secretive CIB. He meets its introverted priest-chief Pearse (Philip Quast), the emotionally driven Dr Angela March (Susannah Harker) and the bullish heavyweight Vaughan (Idris Elba). Spinning around Mike's suddenly complicated life are his best friend's jilted fiancée Kirstie (Colette Brown) and old flame Frances (Fiona Dolman).

In later hard-hitting episodes we see a 12-year-old boy stab his teacher priest to death ("Mea Culpa") and the capture of a "Leech" ("Persona Non Grata"). This intriguing series ends having tied together most of its threads, but dangles worrying implications at the viewer... not so much to suggest a sequel as to hammer home everything at stake.

Id post but i havnt seen it, i dont watch tv. sounds good though, i loved the blade trilogy. If i get the chance then i will watch it or borrow the dvd of my brother.