This show was such a disappointment. It started off so strongly - the premise was fantastic, the visuals were stunning, the leads seemed so promising, and then... A train wreck.

No chemistry between the leads at all, with almost next to no relationship development. Yeon Woo spends the majority of the show wondering if he's going to kill Yoo Han or go nuts because he can't bear to lose colour, and Yoo Han spends most of it just listing off an obsessive amount of colours and shades, with no explanation other than "I memorised them because I like you". (Btw, half the shades he said were just the English words for the same shade a billion times.) It would've at least been understandable or believable if he was an artist, instead of an idol. In fact, I'd have LOVED if Yoo Han was an artist, so Yeon Woo and he could appreciate colours and their knowledge makes more sense.

But that was sadly this shows entire downfall. Nothing was explained. Nothing was revisited. It was like they had a concept and messed around with a camera for 80 minutes - Not to mention messing around with the cinematography. There's a part in episode 5 where it jarringly cuts to a scene of them hugging in the rain, but the volume mixing is terrible and it's startling. They'd never hugged before and I couldn't understand or piece together why Yoo Han was crying. Their voices could barely be heard over the rain, and it was drowning out the music, too. It was so staggering that I went to another site to watch the episode to see if it was just Viki's copy glitching on me. No, that's how it was supposed to be.

But I digress. Some scenes make no sense and there's no need for them. What happened to his mum? What was the point of that? What was the point of Grandfather? His mask? They didn't explain how it even worked. What about the decolouring in his memories and the fit? What about the fact Yoo Han's friends already told Yeon Woo 6 episodes ago that Yoo Han couldn't recognise faces and they acted like it was a big reveal? Why even BOTHER making Yoo Han an idol? Why did he have to have such a powerful family when Mono's are already discriminated against and they could've easily lied about it without throwing their names around? Why did they have a random flier/drawing of Yeon Woo's mother framed in this apparently randomly chosen to attend school? Why was Yoo Han wearing his mask at the end? I thought they were together so Yeon Woo could see colour? You're preventing him from seeing it at school where Yoo Han can feel normal because he can see Yeon Woo's face, but Yoo Han won't let Yeon Woo see colour? All because, I quote, "He wants to make it a fashion trend". WHY did Yoo Han just COMPLETELY gloss over the fact Yeon Woo tried to kill himself? Not only that, but then he decided the best idea would be to take him off his prescription medication and break him out of a psychiatric hospital? And when the bleep did those two have time to even fall in love? Was it even love? Or was it just them both depending on each other to feel "normal" to an obsessive degree? We'll never know, despite Yeon Woo posing this exact question not 2 seconds before kissing Yoo Han.

This leads me to my other complaint. There is zero chemistry, or any semblance of love between them, besides when they're messing around with colour in the art gallery and being way closer than friends with literally no hint of "oooh, this isn't what classmates do". Yeon Woo was a wet blanket and the only thing he did well was cry (btw, how on *earth* did this pushover get in a fight with somebody at his old school for bullying him for being a mono?) and look psychopathic whilst contemplating kidnapping Yoo Han (which reminds me. Why on EARTH did he buy a security camera? They clearly weren't subverting expectations to fool you into thinking he was kidnapping him, and the whole point of kidnapping him was so that he didn't lose colour again. Why would you need a camera if you were so desperate to keep colour around you, when presumably you HAVE to be around that person - not via a camera. Otherwise, that defeats the whole emotional turmoil of this drama because they could've just face-timed 24/7. )

Yoo Han was the only redeeming feature of this entire thing beyond the lore of the world (which was pretty terrible and throw away anyway) and he spent most of it acting like Rain Man listing colours and doing very little else. We didn't even see him pretend to care about being an Idol.

Not a single plotline was explained, and the kiss was honestly pretty terrible, especially the cinematography angle - so I suspect the leads were both straight and uncomfortable doing much kissing, so they just put their faces near each other for the majority of the scene and filmed in an angle so you couldn't see.

This is absolutely my biggest disappointment of 2021. Thank god I didn't waste much time on this.