Right from the opening minute, the show signals that it shouldn’t be taken seriously. This bizarre little sci-fi comedy is a Korean-Thai BL collaboration centered on an alien prince who crash-lands in the middle of a struggling bakery. Like many joint productions, it seems designed to appeal to audiences in both nations simultaneously. Despite having eight episodes of roughly 25 minutes each, the series feels undercooked. The production quality is unexpectedly low for such a collaboration, the editing feels awkwardly stitched together, and while the visual palette suggests goofy sci-fi fun, the show never quite delivers on that promise.
Wooju is a young man attempting to revive his late father’s bakery, though he lacks any actual baking talent. His life changes one night when a spaceship crashes directly onto the premises. From the debris emerge two aliens: a prince named Raon and his loyal canine servant Hachi, the latter of whom becomes obsessed with the quality of earth dog food. Following an awkward exchange regarding their alien status and their inability to pay for the damages, Wooju decides to keep them there and puts them to work. Through the use of magic, they begin producing various baked goods, which unexpectedly turns the bakery into a success. It is revealed that Raon’s arrival on earth was no accident; he was searching for Wooju’s father, who had been his close friend and mentor on the planet Kaunclion, where the father had also taught him how to bake. Meanwhile, Raon’s fiancée arrives on earth to find him, only to fall for a cop who acts as a brother figure to Wooju. The plot also involves the idea that earth is teeming with aliens who may have destructive intentions, drawing the police into the investigation. A villain emerges, revealed to be the one responsible for the deaths of both Raon’s mother and Wooju’s parents—a heavy revelation. The cops eventually face him in what is presented as a life or death showdown. By the conclusion, Wooju learns he has alien blood in his veins, and Raon takes him back to space, while the fiancée stays on earth with the cop she loves.
Was the intention to create a spoof, a parody, or perhaps an extended sarcastic bit? Whatever the goal, it failed. The plot was witless, plain stupid, and entirely illogical, leaving me unable to grasp what was happening at any given moment. Characters would switch between Thai, Korean, and English mid-sentence, and those around them would respond in any of those languages as if it were perfectly normal. Not a single character felt remotely relatable. The acting is some of the worst I have encountered, and it feels as though no real direction was provided beyond giving the actors a basic concept and leaving them to it. Even the central romance between Wooju and Raon is so flat and underdeveloped that it fails to resonate. An alien falling for a human is a fascinating dynamic with immense potential, yet this show wastes it by never exploring the relationship in a meaningful way. Furthermore, Wooju is supposed to be a baker but shows zero visible effort; he clearly has no idea what he is doing, yet we are expected to believe he is running the business. It is delusional to another level.
While the sheer goofiness could have turned this into a memorable, fun, trashy watch, it ultimately fails, resulting in a coherent mess where nothing hits the mark. Even the leads feel like nothing more than caricatures, as does every other character. I truly attempted to stick with it, yet I spent most of the time fast forwarding, simply waiting for the experience to conclude. The final few episodes, particularly the finale, were nearly unwatchable, and I found the pointless supporting cast impossible to track. This is a tragically wasted idea that will join the ranks of the bad BLs I have seen.(2.5/10)
