Black Knight Season 1 Episode 1 – 6 Video Mp4 Download Movie
The ceaseless efforts of Netflix and other streaming platforms to recapture the lightning-in-a-bottle mainstream success of Squid Game continue apace. Black Knight, a dystopian action thriller adapted from the webtoon of the same name by Lee Yun-kyun, might be the next mega-hit K-Drama for the platform.
Or, it might not. It’s always difficult to tell. But the ingredients are certainly there.
Those ingredients include big, malleable genre sandboxes to play in, a distinct aesthetic, and — praise be! — an actual binge-able season order. With six episodes, each under an hour, Black Knight has a distinct advantage over something like Queenmaker, which was good but seemed to go on forever, or even The Glory, which had to be split into two parts.
Black Knight Season 1 review and plot summary
Black Knight really benefits from getting straight down to business, which also ends up being its most pernicious problem down the line, but we’ll get to that shortly. First, here’s the idea.
It’s the future again. A comet has battered the Earth’s surface, sent continents plunging beneath the sea, and left the Korean Peninsula a polluted desert wasteland. People can only survive by wearing respirators, and essential resources such as oxygen are at a premium.
As is always the case, capitalistic self-interest has risen to the top. The surviving 1% of the population are controlled — whether they know it or not — by the Cheonmyeong Group, whose technological advances and resource-hoarding have kept people alive but strictly regimented in a system controlled by QR codes.
Those who aren’t lucky enough to have a code, though, are forced to become refugees, living a hardscrabble life of oppression and desperation, with the only hope of salvation to become a Deliveryman, elite fighters and drivers whose job is to deliver essential resources across the wasteland.
Is Black Knight good or bad?
The essential hook of Black Night is in its two main characters. One is 5-8, a legendary Deliveryman who personifies cool in such a way that it takes a couple of episodes for the show to even bother giving him an actual personality. To offset that, Sa-wol, a young refugee who longs to be a Deliveryman above all else, has personality to spare.
