Premiere Watch: Black Out

18 August 15, 2024August 15, 2024

by missvictrix

Time slot: Friday-Saturday
Broadcaster: MBC
Genre: Thriller, crime, mystery, action
Episode count: 14
Global Streamer: TBD

Reasons to watch: Another crime thriller, let’s go! Here we have Byun Yo-han convicted of a crime he doesn’t remember committing. After serving his sentence he returns to the village where it all went down to get to the bottom of the mystery. Wronged (or possibly wronged) heroes trying to sort things out and reclaim their lives is a favorite storytelling archetype of mine, so between that and the addition of Go Bo-kyul, Go Joon, Kim Bora, missing memories, and a German novel adaptation, you can color me interested.

TL;DR: Byun Yo-han tries to uncover the crime he’s not sure he actually committed or not

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1 peiyeelai

August 15, 2024 at 11:10 PM

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2 Bunny Sonaki

August 15, 2024 at 11:29 PM

Byun Yo-han is my main reason for watching this. He is such as underrated talented actor that I am really ecstatic we can see him again. Desperately wishing this drama delivers.

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PYC

August 16, 2024 at 8:51 AM

He’s active in movies though, getting awards left and right.

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Bunny Sonaki

August 16, 2024 at 9:17 AM

Thanks for sharing this. I don't follow movie news actively so I had no idea.

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PYC

August 18, 2024 at 12:37 AM

Most are serious, art house movie types - I guess it is his personal choice to do so. Doing drama maybe a way to stay mainstream somehow.

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3 Nefret

August 15, 2024 at 11:36 PM

I only realised this week that Black Out is an adaptation of the crime novel "Schneewittchen muss sterben" (Snow White Must Die), which I read umpteen years ago. I'm curious to see what the central theme will be here instead of the German fairy tale Snow White.

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4 jillian

August 16, 2024 at 12:16 AM

I have been interested in this drama since it was mentioned to be an adaptation of Snow White Must Die. Byun Yo Han is a big plus.

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5 Sunnyboo ☀️🥰

August 16, 2024 at 1:28 AM

I dislike crime thrillers (the crime part) but I end up watching them anyway. Sigh. This fated relationship.

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6 Jezz

August 16, 2024 at 2:03 AM

I saw on Twitter that the only legal streamer only available in Indonesia (but sadly, not outside in Indonesia) was Vidio. So, availability angst outside Indonesia was still here.

Anyway, I am deeply shocked that this show would be weecap on Dramabeans, so I might wait next week if the availability angst outside would be resolve or if the availability angst will continue well into the following week (because MBC did not secure yet this Kdrama with the global streamer outside Indonesia and even in South Korea properly), then there will be a Dramabeans drama hangout for this Kdrama without weecaps only.

So, I might say that it would resolve to handle with the issue/scandal with this MBC Kdrama license outside South Korea and Indonesia would rarely happen starting today (August 16).

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Unaspirated

August 16, 2024 at 5:23 AM

I kept expecting to hear some announcement that Hulu or Prime had picked it up and now I'm so sad that it's finally here and totally unavailable!

*sigh* it's not like I don't have other things to watch this weekend, so I'm still hoping this pops up somewhere I can access in the next few weeks.

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Nefret

August 16, 2024 at 5:42 AM

I read on Reddit that it's supposed to be available on Hulu, but can't verify it myself.

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Unaspirated

August 16, 2024 at 5:58 AM

Thanks! I'll keep looking out for it periodically. Sometimes I find that shows show up on Hulu weeks or months later, so who knows. Maybe I'll just go back and comment on all the recaps super late 😁

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7 peiyeelai

August 16, 2024 at 3:04 AM

I love crime thrillers, aside from saeguks. Definitely will watch this one. Thank you, Byun Yo Han for picking this drama! I hope to see you in the upcoming MBC Drama Awards.