Channel 4's 1998 vampire miniseries Ultraviolet streams free on Pluto TV

Collider reports that Channel 4's six-episode 1998 miniseries Ultraviolet is available to stream for free on Pluto TV.

The show follows Detective Sergeant Michael Colefield (Jack Davenport) after an informant named Pollard (Ronnie Letham) is shot and Michael's friend and partner Jack (Stephen Moyer) goes missing. Jack later reveals he has become a vampire and tries to persuade Michael to join him, while a secret government unit called Section 5—backed by the Vatican and the British government—recruits Michael to find and kill vampires. Section 5 includes Vaughan Rice (Idris Elba), priest Pearse J. Harman (Philip Quast) and doctor Angie Marsh (Susannah Harker).

Ultraviolet frames vampirism as a grounded, sci‑fi police drama rather than fantasy: its vampires are strategic, do not necessarily kill people or call themselves vampires, and the series uses investigations—into a car accident, an odd pregnancy and the murder of a priest, among other cases—to explore themes of morality, prejudice and the cost of that work. The show leaves the question of whether Section 5 is justified open to the viewer.

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