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This has the science backing up the facts and has some intreging new technology to show the way colours are seen in nature.

Let me start off by saying that this is a fine documentary in the standard Attenborough-style. However the first episode, which is also the most important to get people to watch the rest is the worst of the three. It is a tad repetitive and there are a lot of scenarios avid documentary viewers will already have seen.

Episode rating for me is like this. Ep1: 7, ep2: 8 and ep3: 8.5, end result is an 8 overall.

People that haven't seen as many documentaries will be able to get more out of this series, but for me it doesn't reach the same heights as series like Planet Earth or Our Planet. Don't get me wrong, this is still a competent and enjoyable show which I do recommend.

It feels like this whole series was just edited lazily. The third episode should have been incorporated into the other two, but instead is repetitive, containing the same exact species, cuts, information and dialogues, with a bit of a "behind the scenes ". It just doesn't seem right.

It's my first time watching a nature documentary and maybe this is why I found this one so attractive. But "attractive" wasn't the only thought. It was an amazing experience. I loved every single detail. It's interesting and full of colour. I really enjoyed it.

There is a brilliant effort by David Attenborough and his team to give us all preview of beauty of life in a Netflix series called 'Life in Colour'

It's fascinating, enthralling and some of the beautiful mysteries of wild life unravelled and shown in three parts,; Seeing, Hiding and Chasing in colour.

Well till I saw this I had thought Peacock was a colourful being, Chameleon changed colours, zebra was black and white but never knew why all this was....

It is an amazing film( how they have done their camera work is shown at the end) where even a tiniest of being in the wild uses color to its advantage, how its not just the chameleon that changes color and how the zebra uses its stripes as a defence system!!

I don't think my excitement of having watched 2 parts so far can be poured in words... cause it's a wonderful connection of the filmmaker and his subjects that is so universal that it needs to be seen and experienced!!

Watch this and I bet you will realise life is soo beautiful with colour or black and white! It will take your mind to a beautiful place! Enjoy!!!

I'm a sucker for anything Attenborough and this short two-part documentary sees him anciently roaming the land like a wonderful turtle and taking in the multifarious ways that colour affects life in the animal world. It's unclear if the brevity of the series was due to real life goings-on but even two short hours of it is lovely - darting from species to species like a magical "animal colour facts" greatest hits. The obligatory 10-minute behind the scenes bits are quite unbalanced as always but it's easy to forgive when our beloved turtle pops up so frequently here. The world will be a far less colourful place without him.

David Attenborough hosts this Netflix nature doc on how creatures use colors to survive and thrive. It seems to be an obvious subject matter for a nature TV show. In addition to the obvious, I do learn some things. I didn't know that a tiger's orange coloring blends in with the green background and the color blind prey. So far, there're only three episodes. There should be more to this subject matter.

'Life in Colour' is the second David Attenborough series released and aired in 2021. The other being 'A Perfect Planet', which while not one of his best was a truly fine and often brilliant series (despite the final episode not being as good as the others). 'Life in Colour' did fascinate me from the get go, due to its subject matter. A large part of me was so interested in seeing how colour is used in the depicted animals' lives and how it would benefit them or cause problems.

It turned out to be another fine Attenborough effort. Did prefer 'A Perfect Planet' of the two series from 2021 and he has done better overall. Ones that are more ground-breaking, more varied and more emotional. 'Life in Colour' however does do a great job with the subject matter and anybody who watches Attenborough's work expecting high production values, wonderful animals and footage, to be educated and memorable scenes will not be disappointed.

My only real issue actually with 'Life in Colour' (have not seen the third episode yet) was the information regarding the polarised lights in "Seeing in Colour", which did go over my head a bit and didn't need to be as complicated in explanation as it turned out.

Otherwise the series is great. One always expects Attenborough's documentaries to be well made, and calling 'Life in Colour' well made is an understatement. The best of the footage is quite dazzling, such as the strawberry coloured frogs and the significance of tiger and zebra markings, and it is amazing at how vivid the colours are. Especially in "Seeing in Colour" with the red noses and green chests.

The music has a nice atmosphere and is nicely varied emotionally, such as the mating dance and how it depicts deception. The narration is educational throughout and mostly accessible, like how one can tell whether a fruit is ripe, misfiring only with the polarised lights. Also liked its entertainment value, without it ever being childish and honesty. It is typically brilliantly presented by Attenborough, who has one of those listen to for hours type of voices.

Also cannot fault the animals and the way they behave and what is said being fascinating, with the ways of deception in "Hiding in Colour" being particularly illuminating, The footage is informative and engaging, with enough freshness given to some of the familiar material (mating dances are not new territory for Attenborough documentaries but don't get old) and with "Seeing in Colour" being particularly good in presenting new material well backed up. Actually appreciated the behind the scenes scenes and it made me appreciate the crews' efforts more.

Concluding, fine series. 9/10.

This felt more like a fluff piece, but its better then nothing. Beautiful photage as always and the background music score was kept a bit more subtle and not (blasting and over the top as in the latest planet earth series) so we could enjoy the photage in peace.

Once again the legend of a man that is David Attenborough does not disappoint with his nature documentaries that he has been pumping out, it is undeniable that it's insane he's as old as he is and still working as much as he is... but it just goes to show that the man will never stop preaching the beauty and good that nature is able to provide and that we as a people keep neglecting, well the only thing capable of stopping that man of course being his inevitable passing away but despite him being in his 90's I absolutely have hope that he'll not be dying any time soon; at least going off of what you can see here and even in his most recent documentary limited series he made for Netflix "Secret World of Sound" which is just as if not even better than this one was - the man is still remarkably spry and fit for his age and the sheer fact he's able to walk and talk as well as he does is a testament to human willpower and it's immensely impressive to see him be such an engaging and inspiring man even at his age. As one can expect from Attenborough, you're undoubtedly going to be getting a whole lot of insightful commentary on nature throughout this entire docuseries, and his smooth and sultry voice is perfect to listen to for hearing all of those nature fun facts, I truly don't believe there will ever be a man who is as well spoken and linguistically engaging as this man is when it comes to talking about nature, his voice is just perfect for it and I'm so glad we've gotten so much from him over the years. The topics he covers during this nearly three hour long series all surround color and how color affects nature, ranging from the first episode 'Seeing in Color' which focuses on the sight aspects of color that revolve around things such as how birds use color to attract mates or how it's used to show how dangerous a certain animal is, whether it's truthful on their behalf or not, or even butterflies using it as a tool to gain trust from other species and garner attention that you desire - similarly to the mating aspects it's used to attract attention for your own benefit, and color can also indicate who is the dominant character in a particular area or how intimidating you might be. The second episode entitled 'Hiding in Color' of course delves into the various ways animals use color to hide from their prey and/or their predators, to either trick, deceive, or sometimes even flaunt in the faces of these creatures - prey use color to blend into their environment to keep out of site of predators in the hopes they won't be caught and subsequently eaten, such as a white bunny blending in with the snow to avoid an owl swooping down to catch it, or the opposite of that where a bunny is brown to blend in with the dirt to avoid the same fate... it's very interesting stuff. While predators use color in much the same way but for a different purpose, to hide in plain sight from their prey to launch a surprise attack and get them when they aren't expecting it, the main example used here being how tigers blend in with their surroundings due to the fact their prey can't physically register orange as a color, instead making it a green/brown color which is pretty much indistinguishable from the surrounding wildlife - it's remarkably cool stuff and it's undeniably Ike of the most interesting pieces of information I have learned, visually at least, about nature throughout my entire little escapade through the nature documentaries I've watched as of late. The third and the final episode, titled 'Chasing Color' is more of a technical focused episode instead of actually diving further into much about nature, the back half of the episode is almost entirely focused on mentioning the desperate need to preserve coral reefs as they are losing their color and dying due to climate change, but the first half of the episode is just a deep dive into the way the unique cameras the crew for this series used function, how they are able to capture the true essence of what these animals see as the human eye isn't able to do so, certain markings or patterns that are impossible to see with the naked eye but are shown expressly with the use of this particular camera lens and stuff, it's how they're able to capture what i mentioned earlier with the tiger and stuff.. and how they're able to showcase the way some animals see in nothing but ultraviolet which is a completely different sense of color that I didn't even think about going into this thing. All in all I consider this to be a wonderful piece of documentation film that I found nothing but pure joy in watching, and I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't done so already because it's absolutely worth the time in my opinion, three episodes all around 45-50 minutes in length, and it's some of the most intriguing and compelling television I have watched all year - I can't recommend it enough and I desperately want to see David Attenborough do more like this and "Secret World of Sound", it's some impeccable stuff and I've loved every singular second of both of these series. Amazing.

The third episode mostly contains already seen footage.

Recently lost my tolerance for there climate change stuff due to realising it's all lies, but this particular documentary is amazing and very little points about it, the way I prefer nature documentarys, empty of propaganda based off of lies and filled with almost nothing but educational information, the way I enjoy David Attenborough documentary nowadays. My personal favourite point in the show is the parts about the tigers, always enjoy seeing predators do what they do to survive off what they have adapted to eating, tigers are my fathers most favourite species of animal, so his love for them had an impact on which educational points of shows are, I do not have favourites in terms if individual species because I love them all equally, but in terms of extinctions I have recently started thinking that without extinctions and adaptations life would not be able to survive, if life can't adapt or die they'll all die, it's all based on as Darwin said survival of the fittest, humans are a part of nature so us having an impact on other life is a part of nature, so other animals must adapt better ways of avoiding us or go extinct, but our compassion has caused the number of habitat recovery and species returning to old habitats to outnumber the amount of one's declining or damages. But due to this still having a rather small piece about "climate change" I have not given it a 10. It would've been a 10 if it had zero instances of "climate change" or biodiversity loss, I do not include the symbols at each side of biodiversity loss like I do with climate change cause to me biodiversity loss can be a crises but we currently are not experiencing such a crises as off yet.

I mean its good, but not really that great. Some new concepts and topics, but mostly just the same old same old. Most subject weren't even that impressive or interesting. So its well made, but inherently not that substancial.

6/10: egh.

Another fascinating nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough. Need more be said? Features the usual high production values and first-rate photography, while answering questions like 'why do zebras have black and white stripes?' and 'why, if tigers need to remain unseen by their prey, they are colored a conspicuous bright orange with black stripes?'.