'Life & Beth' is an interesting and ultimately sweet and likable tale, and a solid soft-relaunch of sorts for Amy Schumer herself.
That first episode also brings in Laura Benanti to play Beth’s mother Jane. Benanti and Schumer are basically the same age — at least Michael Rapaport, who plays her father, Leonard, in several episodes, is a decade older — and, at first, the casting feels like a broad joke about how old and tired Beth feels even as her mom is bouncing around like she’s still a young woman.
as John, the plain-spoken farmer who handles the produce at a local winery. And it’s not until the fourth that all the show’s elements — not just the comedy and the drama, but Beth’s present-day story versus flashbacks to an adolescent Beth in the Nineties — start to really click. Yet even after that episode, the style can fluctuate wildly: buttoned-down and slightly whimsical art-house drama one minute; broad, sketch-style comedy the next.
And where sometimes the humor can feel forced, or like an ill-timed release valve for the ongoing discomfort that Beth feels, the show over time demonstrates a winningly sly and almost gentle sense of humor. There’s an effective running gag, for instance, about Beth’s friend, Maya , who is Black, now exclusively dating Jewish men, and another one about the never-ending pile of Amazon packages on Jane’s doorstep every time Beth returns to her childhood home.
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