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If you love high-concept science fiction as much as I do, you've probably been frustrated by all those films and TV series that promise to be really daring, but end up falling flat under the trappings of what filmmakers often mistakenly assume science fiction to be all about - over-elaborate production design, cheesy aliens of the week, etc.. But it's even more frustrating to me when a film or series shows up with really terrific potential, a good, high-concept idea and interesting characters... and then completely fails to take advantage of any of them. That latter problem describes Ultraviolet in a nutshell. This 6-episode British TV miniseries is such a cool missfire. Just as it really starts to get going... it's over. There's no more. And that drives me absolutely crazy.
Ultraviolet follows the efforts of a top-secret British government team (known as CIB), who are working in the shadows to prevent humanity from losing a war it, by and large, doesn't even know it's fighting - a war against vampires. It seems that for centuries, vampires and humans have coexisted peacefully on the Earth. You see, thanks to a strange symbiosis, the vampires need us - we're their food source. But as the 20th century draws to a close, humans are destroying the biosphere at an alarming rate, and Nature is fighting back with all kinds of viral epidemics - AIDS, Ebola, TB - you name it. In other words, we're polluting the vampires' food supply... and they're having none of it. The vampires have gotten a lot more aggressive and they have a definite agenda. Only CIB is up to the challenge of figuring out what they're up to before its too late for us all.
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