FPR

Bonjour, Your Bakery is cute, wholesome, and genuinely heartwarming, but I went into it expecting something closer to Village Barber, which felt much more intimate to me.

All the credit to the cast: they worked incredibly hard and their interactions felt sincere. But because the village is so small, they often ended up serving the same people, and I’m not sure many of the elderly residents even knew who the cast members were. I actually found that charming, but I wish the show had used it as an opportunity to focus more on the villagers themselves: their lives, memories, and stories. I did love the stories we did get.

It’s still a sweet and genuine watch.