# Blackout: Tomorrow Is Too Late (2021)

> A hacker discovers that a code he wrote caused a chain reaction that plunges Europe into darkness.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/112637

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 45 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: thriller, drama
- Created by: Marc Elsberg
- Network: ORF 1, Joyn
- Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Milena Dreißig, Heiner Lauterbach, Stephan Kampwirth, Herbert Knaup, Jessica Schwarz, Caroline Hartig, Anselm Bresgott
- TMDB rating: 6.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11470588/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: tense, dread-filled, paranoid, grounded

## What critics say

Critics find it a tense, well-paced European disaster thriller whose blackout premise carries its single season, though reception is mixed.

## Synopsis

Blackout: Tomorrow Is Too Late (2021) is a German-language disaster thriller series created by Marc Elsberg for ORF 1 and Joyn. Hacker Pierre Manzano (Moritz Bleibtreu) discovers that a code he wrote is the hidden cause of a chain reaction that plunges the European power grid into darkness, and he must race to undo the damage while carrying the weight of his own mistake. Meanwhile, Frauke Michelsen (Marie Leuenberger) leads Germany's crisis response team, and Carmen Laschitz (Milena Dreißig) and Jürgen Hardtland (Heiner Lauterbach) fight through the collapse of hospitals, transport, and communications. The story moves between hackers, officials, and ordinary people as cities go dark and supplies dwindle. Its engine is the clock: every hour without power brings the continent closer to chaos, and each episode layers new failures onto the last. Set in a contemporary Europe, it is a tense, dread-filled six-episode limited series with a serialized structure and a grounded, procedural tone. Fans of Containment, Utopia, and Revolution will find resonance in its portrait of institutional fragility and a society unraveling without electricity.

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