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The Hook Up Plan is a web television series and the second French series produced for Netflix after Marseille. This web TV Show, originally called Plan Coeur in French, was created by Noémie Saglio and Julien Teisseire and broadcast internationally on December 7, 2018. It is based on the idea of the famous English screenwriter Chris Lang who had imagined this romantic story ten years ago. It is a Rom com based on love, drama and humor with a Parisian touch in the characters.

Premise
The story follows Elsa, a thirty-year-old Parisian and depressive, since she broke up with Maxime, her boyfriend for years. She hates her job, lives with her father and cannot forget her ex. She does not accept the breakup and the young woman is slowly falling apart. Fortunately, she has two amazing best friends, Emilie and Charlotte, that will do anything to cheer her up. They will even pay an escort-boy to play the ideal man in order to give Elsa back some confidence. But very quickly, the plan fell through. This escort-boy creates the perfect character to seduce her. His name is Jules Dupont and he plays the role of a charming and kind teacher who shares the same tastes and interests as Elsa thanks to Charlotte's tips. He is perfect for her, so perfect, that Elsa ends up falling in love. As the episodes unfold, Elsa learns the truth and realizes that all of this was fake and that her bests friends hired a male escort. She has then her heart broke again. However, Jules, the escort, during his job, fell in love with Elsa’s personality filled with surprise. He does everything to get her back by stopping all the lies as well as his escort profession.

Main

 * Zita Hanrot as Elsa, the main character.
 * Sabrina Ouazani as Charlotte, Elsa's best friend.
 * Joséphine Draï as Émilie, Elsa's best friend.
 * Marc Ruchmann as Jules, the escort-boy.
 * Syrus Shahidi as Antoine, Charlotte's brother and Emilie's boyfriend.
 * Tom Dingler as Matthieu, Charlotte's boyfriend.

Recurring

 * Guillaume Labbé as Maxime, Elsa's ex-boyfriend
 * Yvan Naubron as Roman, Jules' best friend and roommate.
 * Jean-Michel Martial as Philippe, Elsa's father
 * Ludivine de Chastenet as Chantal, Elsa's co-worker.
 * Karina Testa as Manon, Antoine's co-worker.
 * Nanou Garcia as Anita, Jules' mother.
 * Alexia Barlier as Gaïa, Maxime's future wife.
 * Stéphanie Murat as Audrey, Elsa's mother.
 * Aude Legastelois as Anaïs, Elsa's sister.

Season 1

 * 1) The Secret Plan (26 min): Elsa is a young woman desperate for love. She is not recovering from her last breakup that happened two years ago. After a party, Elsa lost her phone, but Jules a handsome teacher found it. This where the “plan” began.
 * 2) The Sloppy Plan (26 min): Emilie discovers that Charlotte has paid Jules, an escort-boy, for two dates to help Elsa with confidence. Emilie does not agree and tries without telling the truth to dissuade Elsa from going on these dates. However, Charlotte continues to give some advices to Jules so that he has the same tastes and interests as Elsa.
 * 3) The Booty Plan (28 min): Elsa finds out that her ex boyfriend Maxime is getting married to his new girlfriend Gaïa. Everyone knew about the wedding, including Elsa's friends. She is devastated and has not heard from Jules lately. So, Emilie decides to call Jules again and pay for three more dates in order to help Elsa to forget Maxime's wedding and to cheer her up.
 * 4) The Love Plan (26 min): After her dates with Jules, Elsa is happy and begins to fall in love. However, when Maxime knows about Elsa's new relationship, he becomes jealous. In addition, Antoine wants to surprise Emilie, who is pregnant, and prepares a surprise party to ask her to marry him. Matthieu, the businessman of the group is bankrupt and does not know what to do.
 * 5) The Party Plan (29 min): It is Elsa's birthday and her best friends, Emilie and Charlotte, decide to surprise her with a birthday party. Maxime does everything during this party to get closer to Elsa and does not care to do it in front of Jules. Charlotte, who is in a secret relationship with Matthieu (Antoine's best friend), becomes jealous when she sees Matthew getting close to another girl. Jules decides to leave the party without saying a word and Emilie refuses Antoine's marriage proposal. This birthday party is full of love, drama and rebounds.
 * 6) The Lame Plan (26 min): Elsa has doubts about Jules's identity and tries to find out the truth. So, she goes to see her best friends to get answers. Due to their reactions, she understands that something is going on. Emilie and Charlotte tell the truth by saying that Jules is not Jules but a male escort. Elsa is devastated and does not want to talk to her friends anymore. His sister Anais arrives in Paris to comfort her.
 * 7) The Solo Plan (29 min): The trio of friends (Elsa, Emilie and Charlotte) is divided. Elsa is very unhappy with this betrayal. Emilie decides to save her relationship with Antoine and her friendship with Elsa. Charlotte and Matthew decide to start their own business. Jules tries by all means to get Elsa back.
 * 8) The Exit Plan (24 min): This is the day Emilie gives birth, Charlotte goes to the maternity to meet her nephew. Elsa joins them and announces that she is flying to Buenos Aires. Jules also learns about that and realizes that fortunately there is a Buenos Aires in Paris.

Season 2
The Hook Up Plan could return for Season 2.

Filming
The series is shot in Paris.

Music
The majority of the songs in this series are by French artists such like Boby Lapointe with "Ta Katie t'a quitté", which is Elsa's favorite song, but also Juliette Armanet, Lafayette and Clea Vincent.

Critical Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, season one holds an approval rating of 94%, with an average rating of 3,5/5 stars.

The newspaper Le Monde, meanwhile, carries a more critical judgment, estimating the series childish without a pinch of humor.