The reception and run of Love on the Turquoise Land actually makes me appreciate the mega hot mess that was same period airing Love and Crown. That drama was so bad it was basically perplexed hate watching and also elicited visceral rage to talk about it. But Turquoise Land, which had bigger stars Dilraba Dilmurat and Chen Xing Xu, and a promising sci-fi and romance narrative adapted from a novel, seemed like it couldn’t be that bad. And it wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t very good and that mad it almost dull and boring to watch. The drama barely made any waves and lost viewers as it went along, with the beginning episodes considered the strongest. Complaints range from the drama explaining all that sci-fi conspiracy stuff right off the bat by episode 3, then the leads were fighting evildoers while inexplicably dating in relaxing scenes interspersed, and the final arc increasingly became illogical and poorly plotted together. Here’s hoping for better for both leads who at least showed chemistry and tried their darn hardest with the script they got.