The legendary ‘5-8’ sets about training young Sa-Wol to win the gruelling contest to become the next ‘deliveryman’.

Midway through Black Knight, the show is still playing out like a montage of the dystopia’s Greatest Hits. After a good deal of oxygen depleted fisticuffs, there is much screaming of engines and grinding of gearboxes Mad Max style, as Sa-Wol races through a desertified post-apocalyptic cityscape, dodging murderous raiders, to get a ‘thing’ to a ‘thing’. Then it goes full on Hunger Games as he finds himself cast as the hero of the refugee outcasts, on whom the dispossessed must pin their hopes. But, even as our seemingly puny hero is sure to triumph, the evil moustache-twirlers have other plans…

It’s all entirely predictable and derivative, but it works, like seeing a really good cover band who capture the essence of what the original artists were like before they ate too many pizzas and disappeared up their own rear ends.

Verdict: You could easily mark this down for lack of originality, but as far as watchability goes, Black Knight has that in spades. 7/10

Martin Jameson

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