I have never written a review before but I must say this is has become by far my most favourite asian drama and I just wanted to let you know you absolutely have to watch this if you haven't already.

Acting
I saw Song Seung Heon berore in the great show and while he also did a good job there I must say he was fantastic in this drama. He had to play 2 characters in the same body and he completely had me fooled. I loved how he portrayed this hurt character that lashes out at those around him to protect his heart, he really made me pity black, cry for him, be angry at him and he made me love him. He did his job as an actor perfectly and for that I want to thank him for that.

It was my first time seeing Go Ah Ra and while she also did a good job at acting she sometimes didn't reach me but that is probably because she had the most difficult character to portray and the most difficult scenes to act out. I may not have felt her feelings but she did make me believe the story she was trying to tell.

The other actors also did a really great job, the entire cast really came together for this. I saw Kim Won Hea in strong girl Bong Soon I must say this man surely can play a wide variety of characters when I first saw him in this drama I was stunned. The only actor that I thought could have done a better job was Leo's actor but I found out in the end why he portrayed his character like this and it did make a bit of sense I guess. He also wasn't given that many scenes during the show I would have loved to see some more Leo and perhaps if given the chance he could have done a better job but that's not the actor's fault.

Story
Even in the first episode there were major important events that made absolutely no sense in the beginning and was revealed at the end. I binged watched this show so everything was fresh in my memory but I can imagine that if you don't binge watch this show sometimes you would have to rewatch certain episodes to remember the plot. The first half of the show had you accumulating questions, no literally it was just mystery after mystery after mystery and in the latter half they began to solve the mystery. It's the first time I saw the storyline evolve like this most of the time it's just mystery-solve next mystery-solve and so on. I actually liked the storytelling they used int his drama more because it really had you at the edge of your seat trying to figure out everything with the little hints and clues they gave you. And if you really payed attention I think you even might have solved the mystery before the characters did, altho I did not see that last bad guy coming, he really hid himself well. This drama doesn't only have a mystery storyline , the romantic storyline in this drama was very much present without it being overly present on screen. It was in the little things, the looks they gave each other, how he always protected her, how (and this might just be my own take on the story) she know he was really Joon oppa. It was told much more realistically than in the other drama's where they have to kiss to show that they are in love. (and well you know the end is everything. thank you for ruining my chances in love because now I will compare every man to black and wonder if they would be willing to do the same for me.) Really that damned ending had me crying my eyes out. And then we have the supernatural storyline the only thing that didn't make sense there were the shapes of the shadows. When we see them there just big blurs of blak but when there being described and in the glass factory also they are suddenly black silhouettes in stead of black blurs. Also when black was on the bridge we could clearly see 2 blurs referencing 2 grim reapers but in other moments when there were clearly 2 or more grim reapers we only saw one blur (think about Oh Man Soo's mom, 2 grim reapers and her son-turned-grim reaper but only 1 blur) other than that there were no inconsistencies or non that I found anyway and the story was really well-brought. It's a nice take on grim reapers and it's a sad but at the same time hopeful story.
Altogether black is a very suitable name for this show because it is kind of dark (lots of people died) and they managed to give it a happy ending which was at the same time a very very sad ending (I cried so much) and then was happy again; (really it was like the director was just like let's see how many times we can hit them in the feels).

Music
I loved the soundtrack in this drama and I love how it was used. They had als sorts of different songs but didn't overkill the music.

Cinematography
This drama has some of the most beautiful shot scene's I have ever seen, I really have to give it to the director, the cameraoperators, the editors and everyone else who worked on making this drama so damn beautiful. The cliff, the moon, the jump, damn. You guys really knew what you were doing. Normally I'm annoyed a few times about the angle of the camera, the lighting of the scene, and so on. I didn't have those issues in this drama there were many scenes that were just spectacularly done and made me realise once again that a drama isn't all about the actors but that there is so much more to it. To the many people that worked incredibly hard behind the scenes but don't get as much acknowledgement, thank you!

I really enjoyed watching this drama, it was stunning, thank you to everyone who worked on this drama , it was beautiful.