Sure ... set your color management up correctly, which is something new enough many users aren't familiar with it.
Easiest place is the Color Workspace, Lumetri panel, Settings tab ... where ALL CM settings in Premiere are available check and set.
Are you on a Mac? If so, you've got two issues to deal with. The first is simply to get your Premiere CM settings correct within the app.
Probably you want the Display Color Management option 'on', and also auto log detect and auto tonemapping. Those will probably take care of most of your troubles. The display options are still a puzzler for many users. That's the second issue ...
The second issue is ... well, Apple uses an odd display gamma of 1.96 for Rec.709/SDR video display. It seems most Mac users have that setting, and use it. Although some Apple computers also have an option called HDTV, which uses the broadcast standard 2.4 gamma for the display. The rest of the world uses 2.4 or occasionally 2.2. So ... here are the options about that:
Do you only care how your vids look on a Mac, and ... within Macs, only on those using the Rec.709 setting in the OS for video? If so, then set the display gamma in the Premiere options to QuickTime gamma 1.96.
If on your Mac, you use the HDTV setting for Rec.709 video, then ... that uses the normal 2.4 gamma, so you would select broadcast gamma 2.4 in Premiere's options.
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