mié, 24 sep 2008
Louise convinces CEO Vic Mutsaert to let her do the successful presentation to Dutch investors without whose capital Herculus could go bust, so she's launched in business. Louis hopes to find Eva and reverse the curse, but in the dating bar his/her place is far harder to regain, causing some opportunistic 'feminist' outbursts from the involuntarily trans-gender macho.
jue, 25 sep 2008
Now Louis isn't expected back for a year, his Don colleagues hope for a promotions cascade, Bruno for his top job. Louis(e) still fails to find Eva, so she has no choice but postulate to succeed himself in his female form 'for the time being' and learns from Thomas that Bruno always secretly coveted his job. Her fake CV impresses Hercules CEO Vic, enough to be engaged for week on trial basis. Frustrated rival Bruno organizes a sabotage campaign and makes Vic believe he's Louise's noble mentor, while others suck-up to her. Learning his ploy from Thomas, Louise organizes a deceptive surprise to beat him at his own game.
mié, 1 oct 2008
Nico's cocky applications finally land a job despite the haughty receptionist: he's engaged as the magazine's new courier. Bruno hopes Louis will come rid him of Louise and promote himself, unaware she's him. Being told a 'specialist' can reverse her magical travesty, she chairs an editing board and tells loyal Thomas she's leaving but Louis returning.
jue, 2 oct 2008
Bruno hopes to get rid of Louise and succeed her as editor. Vic's patience is wearing thin, so sabotaging the witches special she promised would break sales records can do the trick. It's very late to book, a decent model, and Bruno convinces secretary Kaat to mess up the favor Louis called from an agency, but Louise has everyone stay late until a model is booked, plan B being modeling herself. Nico is hired but the receptionist asks Vic to fire him, only to be told his grandmother must not be angered, so she should keep a watchful eye on Nico.
vie, 10 oct 2008
Bruno is confident to be Don's next editor in chief now Louise was fired and Theo Vynckier promised him to lean on Vic, who squirms fearing the whole firm may be on the line. The rest of the staff fears for their jobs, Louise retreats in Louis' cocoon, refusing any contact. However Elvis's radio show gets wind of a surprisingly positive reception by the public.
lun, 13 oct 2008
Bruno ordered champagne to celebrate his succession a editor in chief, while Louise prepared to leave the business. However the witches edition is surprisingly a raging success, as the radio show uncovers, so Vic is ordered to hire her back, and charges Bruno with the rotten job of getting her to accept 'stealing back' his dream job.
lun, 20 oct 2008
Thomas is furious that after a hellish long night to meet Louise's deadline, she dares expect staying late into the night to work on a better version, and leaves duly indignant. Vic is as embarrassed as his staff when he finds them doing unflattering imitations when he shows around Theo Vynckier and his business party.
lun, 3 nov 2008
Bruno duly mistrusts a call from 'Louis in Canada' telling him to trust Louise, and triumphs when a friend I the phone company signals it came from the radio station, where Charlotte indeed imitated Louis's voice, but Elvis comes up with a technical explanation too complicated to disprove. Thomas is amused at Louise's wriggling at her first waxing, tries to help and takes her out to the Moroccan restaurant, where she must bail shocked by her first menstruation period.
jue, 6 nov 2008
Bruno hoped a lousy 'male POV' issue of Dom would allow him to oust Louise as editor, but advertisers love it the way Thomas advised: sticking to the new unconventional line style the way. Bruno pays a student to spy on Louis(e) and Charlotte's apartment. Having used a Photoshopped perfect body picture he begged from natural chick-magnet Thomas, Patrick works out and diets to look good for his Internet dream date, who turns up at the restaurant with Vic's daughter Nathalie, who later provocatively claims Thomas, so Louise can't have him while she claims it's not her type.