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Ultraviolet is a 6 episode British series. An incredible six episodes. I knew the name looked familiar (and Stringer Bell looked familiar but I never checked to see who Elba was playing...I'm slow like that sometimes).
DW's vowels give him away.
I heard a rumor that UV wasn't available to buy anymore, but it should be available on Netflix --- do you do Netflix?
I've not seen Ultraviolet...is it on disk?
It's on DVD, but lamentably not on Netflix...at least the last I checked. It's vampirism battled from a more scientific and technical front rather than outright supernatural, with some excellent dark, conflicted characters, and espouses noir conventions more than than gothic or horror. The writing is clever and villains are relatively complex. Jack Davenport (from "Coupling" and "Pirates of Caribbeans") plays a newcomer to a top secret unit built to battle "Code Fives" and Elba is a more seasoned veteran in the unit, but my favorite character was Susannah Harker's Dr. Angie March, a hematologist who's in charge of the research into vampiric transmission, who *strongly* reminded me of early Scully in all the good ways.
It's short (there are only 6 episodes) and at the end, I badly wanted more.
Netflix doesn't have it. I've recommended they stock it. Go, recommend likewise. They'll listen if it's more than just me. Maybe.
Hugh Laurie's accent is spot on. Dominic West's, in the ep I saw, was pretty darn good. Mark Addy's, in the four minutes I saw of his dopey sitcom, was terrible.
Hugh Laurie's accent is spot on.
I thought it wavered in the early eps of House. He was atypically thorough in his enunciation. But I haven't been paying much attention recently.
DW's vowels give him away.
Agreed. I can see as how it would be awkward, trying to fit a British character into an American TV show like that, but if he can't sound like anything but British, I'd prefer honesty to a bad fake.
Laurie hit his consonants pretty hard, but I have had several college profs who did that, so it worked for me. His accent was good enough that a caption editor who worked on his show (which involves close and repeated listening) didn't believe me when I told her he was British.
The guy who introduced me to the series hyped the series and episode 5 by saying it's one of the finest hours of television and I have to agree. Although episode 6 is damn fine too.
Netflix said it couldn't find it.(It offered me something called UltraChrist about Jesus in modern NY, I was halfway considering for the laugh, but) Maybe if I search under Elba's filmography? Yeah, I know you speak true, askye. Maybe that just doesn't hurt his appeal with me. Big surprise. I read that he just made an audition tape of just him reading his lines, and the folks at the Wire cracked up but ended up giving the job to the "Crazy motherfucker" anyway.
I watched Ultraviolet when it was on telly, but don't remember much about it. The call of vampires/Miles from This Life was enough to make me watch. I do remember a creepy kid vampire being used to lure paedophiles or something similar.