on today May 12, 2023 drives Netflix in the new sci-fi series BlackKnight a dystopian horror scenario that is visually reminiscent of Mad Max: Fury Road. However, in South Korean production on the sandy planet, the fight is not for water as a resource, but for air to breathe.
Netflix’s new sci-fi series Black Knight is taking the world’s breath away
The future looks bleak in Netflix’s Black Knight: The year 2071 has only one percent of today’s world population survives. The rest need breathing masks and oxygen to withstand the hostile conditions. On the Korean Peninsula, which is little more than a desert, a shift system trained, which decides who gets how much clean air to breathe.
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Netflix’s new sci-fi series Black Knight is here
Delivery truck drivers, so-called Black Knights, play an important role in Netflix’s dark sci-fi narrative: In their black trucks transport suppliers valuable breathing air and are celebrated as heroes for it – but also attacked and robbed by criminal gangs. A man (Kim Woo-bin) wearing only the number 5-8 emerged as the best driver. The escaped Sa-wol (You-Seok Kang) wants to emulate him in the.
Black Knight gives Netflix climate catastrophe a sci-fi twist
BlackKnight based on the online comic Delivery Knight by author Lee Yoon-gyun. While the last South Korean Netflix hit Squid Game also included socially critical undertones in its escalating narrative, in Black Knight it is the treatment of extreme air pollution including climate change that charges Ui Seok Cho’s series with socially relevant topics.
The Lack of oxygen becomes a weapon in Black Knight, when wealthy and ruthless entrepreneur Ryu Seok (Seung-heon Song) controls the world with the air he manages. Potential for conflict and action are pre-programmed in the Netflix series.
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Chaotic time travel, survival struggles at the edge of the universe, gripping alien conspiracies on earth or dystopian societies in the post-apocalypse: the sci-fi series starting in 2023 show how diverse the genre can be.
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