The new South Korean TV series Black Knight on Netflix is the adaptation of a webtoon by Lee Yun-kyun, and takes place 40 years into the future in a post-apocalyptic world.

Black Knight is set up years after a comet collision that has left Earth with poisoned air and only a small number of survivors. 

As in the present world, this imagined future also has set class distinctions that define where and how a person gets to live. The rich live in domed cities mimicking plant life, the middle class lives in claustrophobic rows of small concrete houses, and the rest – dubbed refugees – are left to fend for themselves in the Korean peninsula turned desert. 

Directed by Cho Ui-seok, the show follows two main characters, 5-8 played by Kim Woo-bin, and Sa-Wol played by Kang You-seok. 

5-8 is one of the Black Knights, delivery drivers who bring food and oxygen to people’s homes while fighting off raiders from the desert. 5-8 is considered a legend as he seems to be indestructible. He is joined by Sa-Wol, a refugee who wants to become a Black Knight as the group tries to fight a megacorporation known as Chun-myung Group that is set on bringing chaos. 

The series has well choreographed fights and chase scenes for action lovers that help set a nice pace for each episode. 

However, some scenes leave viewers quite frustrated, as logic seems to go out the back door. As an example, 5-8 smokes with his windows down while driving a truck full of life-saving oxygen in an air-deprived world. 

The show also seems to waste a lot of time on unnecessary scenes, cramming all the major plot points in the last two episodes.