TheEmulator23 It's very enjoyable although starts a little slow. It's mostly frustrating because there was so much more story than just 6 episodes that were made. It so obviously needed a least another 2 years to sort of wrap something up. It leaves you wanting more but at the same time upset because you get into it & it completely leaves you hanging in every respect. Idris Elba is good as always & I liked the other leads too. It was nice to see a young Stephen Moyer("True Blood") play a vampire. This is one of those shows that I would like to recommend, but at the same time I wouldn't because of the complete lack of any sort of above mentioned conclusion.

Steven Having watched the whole series (6 episodes) i was impressed by both the performances of the actors as well as the subject matter that i have never seen a British series use, having seen shows such as Buffy the vampire slayer and x-files i am used to the vampire and paranormal TV series but this is the first instance i have seen of a British series tackling this. my rating of 9/10 may seem a little high, i decided to give it a high rating because it combines the detective and vampire horror genres to produce an entertaining hybrid which is a new experience to me, Jack Davenport was a great choice for the role of Michael Colefield and plays the part very convincingly, the downsides to this are that only one series was made which leaves a feeling that the story isn't quite finished and also at times it seems like there's a skeleton cast and it seems the shooting locations were empty apart from the main 4 characters, this is't overly noticeable but it just bugged me.

rarorojo this is another vampire-science-fiction i have been expected.but unfortunately, the script and the protagonist's roles is extremely stupid. there is an inadequate clues or sources to buildup audience's feelings or to trigger the incidents. expression of each roles according to their lines and script gave me a phony and fake feelings more than any other science fiction series. and plus most of the consequences in each incident seems to be clueless or in the other hand i think this series is more like a cheap drama for 15 years old kids. x-files is a lot more better than this. i would like to say it is a good trial but the director and his team has a long way needed to develop. in brief, very disappointed. rated 1 out of 10

sez-imdb Originally I saw Ultraviolet as a TV series, and recently again on DVD. Its compelling: it was all I could do not to watch the whole 6 episodes in one night. Other distinguishing aspects are the intelligent script, and clever plotlines.Characterizing Ultraviolet best however, the standout reason to experience Ahearn's dark vampire mythos work, is "understatement".There's no cut to extreme close-up as the protagonist realises what's going on, followed by a complete explanation in flashback. Dialog is sotto voce, offhand even. Sets, locations, effects are elemental, and still look good in 2003.For example - warning, slight spoiler - when Davenport's character D/Sgt Coleman first discovers what he's into, we discover it with him; rather than having it pushed in our face. The clues have been there; a bizarre pistol augmented with video camera and half-silvered mirror, the comments from Pearse. But is only as he aims the weapon that Mike is forced to the realisation that something evil has taken his old friends place.Watch it again. And again. There's more each time, and the fact that Ahearn _never_ uses the word vampire, is just one of many subtleties. In the opening captions for example the word "Ultraviolet" disappears letter by letter until "V" remains.The effect is artfully limned outlines resulting in a foreboding sense of shadowy figures operating in the periphery of the plot. This helps to emphasise the uncertainty of who can be trusted, who is malevolent and who seeks peace.Completely unlike superhero/schlock based vampire-mythos treatments (Buffy, Blade, Carpenters "Vampires") Ultraviolet revels in the drama of exploring the line between good and evil, faith and lies, living and undeath. Its strongly written medical and detective plotlines work through deeper darker human desires: to cheat death, to find lost loves, and to fight for ones humanity.Also unlike cinematic renderings (eg those based on Anne Rice, and Stoker novels) Utlraviolet carves out new territory in casting the vampire not as individualistic Euro-elegant anti-hero, but as pawns, bishops and rooks of an inexorable and invisible dark power.The characters created by Quast, Davenport, Elba and Harker are heroic in that they have given over their comfortable lives to know and fight evil, but they are vulnerable and human. Even Elba's Vaughan Rice knows he's fighting an evil too fast and powerful; and its his ingenuity that saves him, and his knowledge of his own mortality that makes us want him saved. The contribution of Davenport's Mike Coleman to the group is his cop cunning and intuition, not some lantern jawed, flinty eyed gunslinging. There is so much more in Ultraviolet it seems a terrible shame that only 6 episodes were made. Someone, somewhere please get Ahearn and the team back for season two!