What can you do if you are trapped in a loop, in a mediocre and bland job, with no future and in which you do not get the recognition you deserve, but which you cannot give up no matter how hard you try? In addition to the personal story of one in three readers of this paragraph, that plot is the starting point of De Laatste Dag, The Last Day, a recent humor miniseries starring Elisabeth Lucie Baeten, an actress, writer, screenwriter and comedian. which has become the sensation of the moment in the flamenco world.

Every morning, upon waking up and leaving the house on the way to a fictional television, the character of Lucie (played but also created by her) repeats out loud: “Today is my last day.”. She wants to be promoted but her boss ignores her, her colleagues have their own misfortunes and the circumstances are not on their side.. She wants to resign, she knows she should resign, she is determined to resign, but she never succeeds, because something always happens.. A meeting that cannot be postponed, a pregnancy test with a false positive, a crush with the new guy in the office.

The plot doesn't have much mystery: misunderstandings, flirtations, easy jokes, unexpected twists that are completely expected.. But it has had some success in Flanders, managing to connect with the millions of people who are bored in their chair for eight hours five days a week and feel identified with that very Belgian mixture of pacelessness, routine, lightness, overreaction and improvisation. But above all, it has raised the profile of its protagonist and person in charge, whom some compare – with somewhat questionable criteria – with the North American Lena Dunham, the creator of the also successful Girls.

Elisabeth defines herself as an “irritating optimist” and is the author of books such as: Living in the Now. Guide to what to do, what not to do and what the hell is happening in these confusing times, quite a statement. He started out doing everything, but he found an immediate niche on Instagram with the express mockery of the week's protagonists.. No one wants to be a victim of their sharp and ironic darts, but at the same time no one wants to be completely left out, because they have become a way of determining who matters and who doesn't in current Belgian times.. “Even the prime minister follows me,” he boasted these days.

His recent videos do not last more than a minute and a half and the internet has loved them. In Gila style, she presents herself as Katrien van Politiek PR, Katrien from political public relations, and has telephone conversations with the enemy, which are the local leaders who get into trouble, get out of control drunk or make fools of themselves with delusional excuses. They are not biting, but they are accurate and close, and that is precisely why they work so well. They make people laugh without needing to destroy, but they are devastating from forced innocence.

Is he a celebrity? Well, he is earning it, but in reality, if he were, or something similar, it would only be in half of the country. The other half, the Walloon and French-speaking, have no idea who he is.. There are no references in their media, there is no follow-up on the street. The division in the country, for these things, is total or almost, and there are few stars capable of covering the entire national universe.. It is a double-edged blade: on the one hand they live better, without many stresses and too much cultural friction, but on the other hand, ignorance becomes dull and is very difficult to smooth out.