It’s 1999, and Vancouver’s heating up. Robert Duncan, a sharp-tongued gay hustler with a taste for designer drugs and bad decisions, is running from a busted engagement, a pile of emotional baggage, and a hotel room scandal that ends with a velvet Crown Royal bag full of illegal Pez-shaped ecstasy pills. Meanwhile, in Windsor, Ontario, his best friend Dee Black—fierce, broke, and burning with rage—is standing in front of her charred family home, holding her teenage sister as their mother slips into a coma.

The two reunite, desperate, high, and out of options. What begins as a joke—selling candy-shaped pills at underground parties—quickly becomes a full-blown operation as they enlist the help of drag queen Candystripers, reformed club kids, and some morally questionable friends. But with family trauma, sketchy hookups, nosy stepdads, and a growing pile of secrets, the high won’t last forever.

Part 1: Welcome to Candyland is a fast-paced, drug-laced, unapologetically queer ride through friendship, survival, and the cost of starting over. Think Will & Grace on GHB, crashing into Euphoria with a side of Trainspotting. This is the beginning of something big—and it all starts with a bag of pills and one hell of a pitch.