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Positive:
16
Mixed:
7
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Critic Reviews
Mar 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
If Amy Schumer does harbor ambitions as a serious actor, though, Life & Beth features her most compelling and complex onscreen performance to date. She gets many of the show’s biggest laughs, but just as often she’s the straight man to the supporting cast’s various oddballs.
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Mar 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s those little, often subtle gags, that keep the audience from sinking into Beth’s depression along with her. That effort to alleviate some of the heaviness helps us go along on the journey Beth is going to take without making her seem like she doesn’t appreciate what she has.
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Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The ambitious “Life & Beth” has flaws, not just with its early tonal zig-zags but also with length. Like too many shows these days, it could easily have been two episodes shorter, and thus tighter. But it’s nonetheless an impressive and enjoyable series that’s about the perils of letting fear guide us, the need to heal, and the choice to enjoy life in the face of death.
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Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s frequently very funny, full of bright comic turns, and often quite moving, even beautiful, sometimes just for the space of a shot, in a way that might make you reconsider a character. It’s sentimental in the end, but that is what sometimes happens when artists grow happy in their life.
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Mar 14, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Life & Beth is a lot more than a smartly scripted rom-com. ... Watching it unfold, you wish Schumer either decided to focus more on the budding romance with the weird and weirdly likable John—it’s a charmingly offbeat relationship—or cut the series down to, say, seven episodes, like HBO’s recent coming-back-home comedy Somebody Somewhere.
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The PlaylistMar 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Life & Beth” is clearly a very personal story for Schumer, but by shifting between workplace comedy, rom-com, and late-coming-of-age dramedy, it never quite focuses on how it wants to be what it wants to be. Despite its unfocused format, it is compulsively watchable and there is an offbeat charm to the whole thing that is hard to resist.
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Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Feels like a return. It’s not a triumphant one, but it has touches of the old Schumer, smart and transgressive and self-aware. They’re stretched out a little too thinly over the 10 half-hour episodes, and they don’t really compensate for the overall sentimentality and simplistic psychology. But for the true fan, they’ll be worth the relatively short binge.
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Mar 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s neither as hilarious nor as moving as it seems like it could be, and the tonal shifts between “dram” and “edy” can be jarring. Nevertheless, it’s intriguing for the rawness that Schumer — who not only stars but created the series and wrote and directed most of its episodes inspired by her own experiences — brings to the table.
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Feb 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Moments of narrative candor can and do get lost amid scenes when those hilarious guest stars (including Cole Escola giving us a twist on Marie Kondo that involves the word “squirt”) stretch the show’s comedy into way-too-broad territory, often for nothing more than a quick laugh. At its best and when it hits its stride—namely, when it manages to artfully thread its comedic sensibility with its more dramatic tenor—Life & Beth can be quite affecting.
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Mar 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
What’s missing, here, is a unifying sensibility. The inconsistencies are glaring. Life & Beth’s tone lurches from realistic to absurd and back; relatively normal characters suddenly devolve into off-the-wall caricatures. ... The pieces just don’t add up to a satisfying whole.
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