Ultraviolet

Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by TedShatner10, Aug 31, 2015.

  1. TedShatner10

    TedShatner10 Commodore Commodore

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    No, not the deeply mediocre Matrix crossed with Blade rip off from 2006, I'm of course talking of the cult UK series from 1998. It is about UK special agents that deal with hunting down vampires with high tech gadgets and science. It's main lead, a young Jack Davenport, went on to a respectable B-list career (turning up in PotC, Flashforward and Kingsman) but it's of course Idris Elba who leaps out as being instantly recognisable. Both leads were excellent and so was Susannah Harper (form the original House of Cards) and Philip Quast, but sadly they had less successful careers than Elba and Davenport.

    While the vampires getting vaporised by garlic pistols is rendered with amusing 90s CGI, the show as a whole actually dated fairly well and actually pretty similar in tone with 2007's Jekyll (both about monsters from 19th century literature meeting modern-ish tech). The mico camera attached to Solid Snake's SOCOM pistol to detect vampires rendered invisible on monitors stuck in my mind for many, many years. And on hindsight it makes sense that the vampires were making their aggressive moves in 1998 right on the cusp of the digital revolution and omnipresent surveillance really exploding (and vampires becoming known to everybody with smartphones).