What did you think about the hue/color-tone of this series?

Was wondering what people though about the unusual color-tone/hue this series was filmed with. It certainly gave things a more somber, chilling look, yet I kind of liked it. To get technical, I would describe it as "partially desaturated".... if you're familiar with Photoshop, you can tone down the "saturation" on an image, which removes the color and makes it "grayer" looking. (You can also up the saturation and make the colors extra vibrant and loud). This looked to me as though it was desaturated by about 50%... so that it was sort of halfway in between black & white and color. With perhaps a subtle balance towards the green & blue part of the spectrum. It does make me wonder how it would have looked had it been filmed in normal color tone... would those more vibrant colors, especially in the many outdoor/nature scenes, have somehow detracted from the story? Curious what other people think about this.