After "Squid Game" seized the world's attention, K-drama fans were stuck with the tiresome duty of explaining to the noobs that the heightened social commentary that supposedly made it stand apart from other shows is, in reality, a feature of the genre. Whether we're talking about romances, comedies, thrillers, or cop shows, nearly all of them contain some element of class friction and wealth disparity.
"Black Knight," being a post-apocalyptic action thriller, makes the class struggle more front-facing while following common tropes of dystopic fiction. Here, writer and director Cho Ui-seok gives us an alternate Korea run down by "Mad Max," the product of a comet crashing into the Earth and destroying 99 percent of its population.
